The Pianist: Music from the Motion Picture

Frederic Chopin, Janusz Olejniczak - The Pianist: Music from the Motion Picture

The Pianist: Music from the Motion Picture
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $12.99
You Save: $0.99 (7%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $4.98 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Listen soundtracks from this album



(Click here)
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store

CD Details

Artist: Frederic Chopin, Janusz Olejniczak
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-11-26
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Nocturne in C-Sharp minor (1830)
  2. Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72, No. 1
  3. Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1
  4. Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38
  5. Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
  6. Waltz No. 3 in A minor, Op. 34, No. 2
  7. Prilude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4
  8. Grande Polonaise for Piano and Orchestra (preceded by an Andante Spianato), Op. 22
  9. Andante spianato in G Major
  10. Grande Polonaise in E-flat Major
  11. Moving to the Ghetto Oct. 31, 1940
  12. Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4

Music reviews of The Pianist: Music from the Motion Picture

Music Review: Why 'Moving to the Ghetto' is essential to include
Rating: 5 Stars

I believe that without the inclusion of Moving to the Ghetto, this would mostly be a beautiful collection of fine but isolated Chopin performances and not a soundtrack. Moving to the Getto reminds listeners to hear the performances of these gorgeous works within the context of the horrors of the times -- making for a completely different take on Chopin -- and this track is indispensable to have these individual pieces hang together as a meaningful whole. Ghetto is subtly and tactfully done, and I feel the producers made the right decision to include it. It's heartbreaking to think of such beauty being played amid the setting of such brutal and inhuman squalor. Psychologist Michael Frankl wrote "Man's Search for Meaning" after surviving his own ordeal under the Nazi madness, and his book tells a great deal why some people survived - those who had any chance at all - and those who didn't. It's amazing that man can sink so low and yet when spiritually attuned, can soar to the heights.

Description of The Pianist: Music from the Motion Picture

Roman Polanski's telling of famed Polish composer-pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's survival in the Nazi-controlled Warsaw ghetto can't help but be infused with the director's deepest passions: he himself escaped the Krak?w ghetto as a boy of 7. The musician's status as a musical hero to the oppressed Polish Jews of World War II was surpassed only by that of Chopin, the composer who was at the core of Szpilman's repertoire. Thus this score revolves tightly around Chopin's music, with modern Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak paying passionate homage to both his musical and national forebears, the haunting strains of the Nocturne in C-sharp Minor setting the film's historical and dramatic tone. The underscore of previous Polanski collaborator Wojciech Kilar (The Ninth Gate, Death and the Maiden) is represented here by the soulful "Moving to the Ghetto," a cue that helps anchor the soundtrack's troubling time and place with understated grace. The collection concludes with a rare, remastered performance of Chopin's Mazurka Op. 17, No.4 by Szpilman himself, recorded in Warsaw in 1948. --Jerry McCulley

Movie Soundtracks CDs

Music Genres
Bestsellers in Movie Soundtracks CDs
The Incredible Hulk Score ImageCraig Armstrong - The Incredible Hulk Score
Release date: 2008-06-10; Music CD
Best price: $16.99
WALL?E ImageWALL?E
Release date: 2008-06-24; Music CD
Best price: $11.50
Price in other shops: $18.98
The Dark Knight Limited Edition ImageThe Dark Knight Limited Edition
Release date: 2008-07-15; Music CD
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops: $23.98
August Rush: Music From The Motion Picture ImageAugust Rush: Music From The Motion Picture
Release date: 2007-11-13; Music CD
Best price: $11.81
Price in other shops: $16.97
Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild ImageEddie Vedder - Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild
Release date: 2007-09-18; Music CD
Best price: $9.36
Price in other shops: $18.98
Juno ImageJuno
Release date: 2008-01-08; Music CD
Best price: $7.69
Price in other shops: $13.98
Once ImageOriginal Soundtrack - Once
Release date: 2007-05-22; Music CD
Best price: $8.88
Price in other shops: $13.98
Sex And The City: Music From the Original Motion Picture ImageOriginal Soundtrack - Sex And The City: Music From the Original Motion Picture
Release date: 2008-05-27; Music CD
Best price: $7.96
Price in other shops: $16.98
Mamma Mia! ImageMamma Mia!
Release date: 2008-07-08; Music CD
Best price: $9.98
Price in other shops: $18.98
Camp Rock ImageOriginal Soundtrack - Camp Rock
Release date: 2008-06-17; Music CD
Best price: $9.89
Price in other shops: $18.98
Similar CDs
Music Featured in the Motion Picture The Pianist: Nine Pieces by Frederic Chopin for Piano Solo ImageMusic Featured in the Motion Picture The Pianist: Nine Pieces by Frederic Chopin for Piano Solo
Hal Leonard Corporation; Published: 2003-04-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.99
Price in other shops: $9.95
Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition) ImageSchindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
Release date: 2004-03-09; DVD
Best price: $10.90
Price in other shops: $19.98
The Piano ImageThe Piano
Release date: 2004-05-18; Music CD
Best price: $9.96
Price in other shops: $18.98
Shine: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ImageShine: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Release date: 1996-11-05; Music CD
Best price: $1.10
Price in other shops: $17.98
Chopin: Favorite Piano Works ImageChopin: Favorite Piano Works
Release date: 1996-02-13; Music CD
Best price: $12.39
Price in other shops: $17.98
The Original Recordings of the Pianist ImageThe Original Recordings of the Pianist
Release date: 2002-10-21; Music CD
Best price: $19.13
Price in other shops: $29.99
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 ImageThe Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
by Wladyslaw Szpilman
Published: 2002-12-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.78
Price in other shops: $13.00
Schindler's List: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ImageItzhak Perlman, John Williams - Schindler's List: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Release date: 1993-12-07; Music CD
Best price: $8.75
Price in other shops: $18.98
Music Inspired by the Motion Picture the Pianist: Wladyslaw Szpilman Origin ImageMusic Inspired by the Motion Picture the Pianist: Wladyslaw Szpilman Origin
Release date: 2002-12-17; Music CD
Best price: $28.19
The Pianist ImageThe Pianist
Release date: 2003-05-27; DVD
Best price: $6.54
Price in other shops: $14.98
Compare prices and find music notes for more than one million Music CD titles