Casanova (2005 Lasse Hallstrom film)
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Composer: Alexandre DesplatComposer: Jean-Philippe Rameau
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Composer: Giovanni Paisiello
Composer: Vicente Martin y Soler
Composer: Leonardo Leo
Composer: Francesco Durante
Composer: Tomaso Albinoni
Composer: Sonny Kompanek
Conductor: Michael Novack
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2005-12-20
Music Label: Hollywood Records
Soundtracks:
- An Untold Story: Assaggio No.1 In G Minor - Johann Helmich Roman
- The Legend Of Casanova: Tambourins I/II From Daro - Jean-Philippe Rameau
- I Yield To Love: Cello Concerto No.3 In D Minor - Leonardo Leo
- Eternal Damnation: Overture From Les Fetes De Polymnie/Overture From Platee/Overture From Zoroastre - Jean-Philippe Rameau
- The Doge's Decree: Concerto In C Major - Antonio Vivaldi
- A Venetian Virgin - Alexandre Desplat
- San Cremori At Dawn: Concerto In C Major For Harpsicord And Strings - Giovanni Paisiello
- A Lover's Duel: Overture From La Madrilena - Vicente Martin Y Soler
- A Terrible Mistake: Concerto A 5, Op.9, No.4 - Tomaso Albinoni
- A Secret Lover?: Sinfonia From The Opera Farnace - Antonio Vivaldi
- Marriage Is A Safe Haven: Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.4 - Tomaso Albinoni
- Trailing Guardi: Sonata For Violin And Bassocontinuo, Op.5 No.11 In E Minor - Arcangelo Corelli
- The Noble Pig: Concerto Per Quartetto No.8 - Francesco Durante
- Paprizzio's Arrival: Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.2 In D Minor - Tomaso Albinoni
- Inquisitor Pucci - Alexandre Desplat
- : Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.4 - Tomaso Albinoni
- A Big Idea: Harpsicord Concerto In B Flat Major - Francesco Durante
- A Nom De Plume/Carnivale!: Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.6 In G Major/Bouree From Les Plaisirs Champetres - Tomaso Albinoni
- The Plume's Nom Is Casanova! - Sonny Kompanek
- Dancing At The Doge's Ball: Riguadon From Water Music Suite, No.3 In G Major/Bouree From Music For Royal Fireworks/Loure From Tafelmusik1 - George Frideric Handel
- One Step Closer To Heaven: Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.4 In A Major - Tomaso Albinoni
- Casanova's Confession: Sonata Op.5 No.7 In D Minor - Arcangelo Corelli
- The Hanging: Violin Concerto 'Il Cimento Dell'Armonia E Dell'INvenzione' Op.8 No.11 In D Major - Antonio Vivaldi
- A Great Escape: Overture From Zais/Overture From Nais/Overture From Achante Et Cephise Ou La Sympathie - Jean-Philippe Rameau
- My Place Is With Casanova: Overture From Le Temple De La Gloire/Overture From Zais/Sonata For Violin And Bassocontinuo, Op.5 No.7 In D Minor - Arcangelo Corelli
- All's Well...:Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.4 In A Major - Tomaso Albinoni
Music reviews of Casanova (2005 Lasse Hallstrom film)
Music Review: Authenticity can sound great as well!
Rating: 5 Stars
As an avid baroque music listener and performer, I can attest to the delightfully pleasing performances on the soundtrack as well as the painstakingly accurate performance practices utilized in the recording of this soundtrack.
The producers of this film fortunately went to the trouble of hiring some of the top period performance musician-specialists in the country (perhaps in the entire world) to record the soundtrack to Casanova. I know, because several of them were faculty members of the Oberlin Conservatory Baroque Performance Institute who went AWOL to Hollywood in June 2005 for the recording sessions. We all forgave them, and were actually quite excited that period music performance was having its day on the silver screen.
Do not miss this exquisite potpourri of wonderful baroque composers' works performed as closely as humanly possible to the way that they heard their works during their lifetimes! The film may not have been intended to be historically accurate (part of the fun), but the music certainly ended up that way. Not only that, but it sounds heavenly (unlike Casanova's antics) and up-to-date, not musty and old as if it were sealed in a museum case.
Description of Casanova (2005 Lasse Hallstrom film)
He was the world's most notorious seducer. A swashbuckler, master of disguise and wit - it was said no woman could resist Casanova's amorous charms...... until now. For the first time in his life, the legendary Casanova (Heath Ledger) is about to meet his match with an alluring Venetian beauty, Francesca (Sienna Miller), who does the one thing he never thought possible: refuse him. From Academy Award nominated director Lasse Hallstrom ('Chocolat', 'Cider House Rules') comes a rousing romantic comedy about Casanova's greatest adventure - losing his heart. The film also stars Jeremy Irons, as the detective-lie Bishop Pucci who pursues Casanova, hoping to catch him in the act of illicit seduction, Lena Olin as the mother of Casanova's arranged bride-to-be, and Oliver Platt as Papprizzio, Francesca's betrothed. The original score is composed by Alexandre Desplat, recently famous for his film compositions for 'The Girl With The Pearl Earring' and 'The Upside of Anger'. The film is released on 17th February 2006, and this soundtrack is available from 13th February. Emi Music. 2006The action in this tale about the 18th century adventurer and (at least in popular lore) seducer is set in Cassanova's native Venice in the mid-1700s, so it makes sense that the soundtrack would be loaded with Baroque pieces. The Venice-based Tomaso Albinoni is featured prominentaly, along with heavyweights such as Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Rameau, and George Frideric Handel, and lesser-known composers such as Arcangelo Corelli, Francesco Durante, and Alexandre Desplat. Er, actually Desplat is a contemporary French film composer who also released his score for the couldn't-be-more-different Syriana shortly after Casanova came out. Of the two pieces he penned here, "A Venetian Virgin" is in pure Baroque style, while "Inquisitor Pucci" betrays a more modern film-music vibe. Meanwhile, orchestrator Sonny Kompanek rearranged a couple of the tracks and authored the tense "The Plume's Nom Is Casanova," which doesn't sound embarrassing sandwiched between pieces by Albinoni and Handel. Overall, it would have been nice to get longer excerpts from the pieces--many feel chopped into too-small fragments--but the music's innate grace and elegance can't be beat for a period film. Or for any film, really: Vivaldi's Concerto in C Major ("The Doge's Decree") will be familiar to buffs, who will remember it featuring prominently in the Dustin Hoffman-ŽMeryl Streep showdown Kramer vs. Kramer back in 1979. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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