Frederic Chopin, Janusz Olejniczak - The Pianist: Music from the Motion Picture
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Artist: Frederic Chopin, Janusz OlejniczakEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Russian (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-11-26
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Nocturne in C-Sharp minor (1830)
- Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72, No. 1
- Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48, No. 1
- Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38
- Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
- Waltz No. 3 in A minor, Op. 34, No. 2
- Prilude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4
- Grande Polonaise for Piano and Orchestra (preceded by an Andante Spianato), Op. 22
- Andante spianato in G Major
- Grande Polonaise in E-flat Major
- Moving to the Ghetto Oct. 31, 1940
- 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 McCulleyGeneral CDs
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