The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: John CoriglianoEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Anna's Theme
- Cremona: Main Title
- Cremona: Death of Anna
- Cremona: Birth of the Red Violin
- Cremona: The Red Violin
- Vienna: The Monastery
- Vienna: Kaspar's Audition/Journey to Vienna
- Vienna: Etudes/Deat of Kaspar
- Oxford: The Gypsies/Journey Across Europe
- Oxford: Pope's Gypsy Cadenza
- Oxford: Cotius Musicalis/Victoria's Departure
- Oxford: Pope's Concert
- Oxford: Pope's Betrayal
- Shaghai: Journey to China
- Shanghai: People's Revolution/Death of Chou Yuan
- Montreal: Morritz Discovers the Red Violin
- Montreal: Morritz's Theme
- Montreal: The Theft
- Montreal: End Titles
- Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra
Music reviews of The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Review: The true weeping violin.
Rating: 4 Stars
The violin in this is very lovely but also very sad and is profound. Those who play the violin or have a great care for music itself will enjoy. For those who do not they will not be so graced by the journey that the music brings. Although the music very sad in most part's it is very compelling. So to conclude buy it if you enjoy the movie or enjoy the classical music.
Description of The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Leave it to composer John Corigliano and violinist Joshua Bell--two of biggest names in classical music--to team up and create one of 1999's best soundtracks. For many, the soundtrack to The Red Violin was just as impressive as the film, a moving blend of gypsy, folk, and classical compositions. --Jason VerlindeNormally we think of a musical instrument as a passive object in the service of a performing artist. But what if that instrument is itself a work of art, containing the secrets of the various owners through whose hands it has passed over the centuries? That's the premise behind this intriguing film by Fran?ois Girard (director of 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould). It traces the story of a legendary violin (thought to be possessed by an immortal soul) from its birth in 17th-century Italy through Mozart's Vienna, Victorian England, and revolutionary China to its present-day fate on the auction block. The score, in suggesting the violin's unique aura, therefore carries much of the burden of the story, and it brings together some of the most outstanding talents in contemporary classical music. Composer John Corigliano's richly eclectic and poetic score--encompassing classical elegance, gypsy passion, and angst-ridden harmonies--etches vivid portraits of the film's various epochs but also gives an overarching sense of unity to the episodic character of the script. It's essentially a set of remarkably imaginative variations for violin and orchestra on a theme of haunting pathos and is a substantial work of music in its own right. As the soloist, Joshua Bell saturates the eponymous instrument with personality. His combination of virtuoso bravura and soulful phrasing almost seems to lead the violin to the brink of human speech. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen shapes the exchange between orchestra and violin into tautly dramatic dialogue. The disc also includes a powerful related work on the theme used in the score, the Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra, which confirms Corigliano's status as one of today's leading and most personally communicative American composers. --Thomas May
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