Isabel Bayrakdarian, Mychael Danna - Ararat
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Artist: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Mychael DannaEdition: Music CD
Audio: Armenian (Original Language); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-01-08
Music Label: CreateSpace
Soundtracks:
- Groonk
- Oor Es Mayr Eem
- Siege
- Something in your Heart
- Ancient History
- Need to be Remembered
- The Dance
- Mothers and Sons
- Yeraz
- They will take my Island
- Ani
- His Land was Lost
- Final Stand
- Silent Witness
- Call to Action
- The Power to Imagine
- How Did He Die?
- Return to Ararat
- All that is Sacred
- The Ghost of my Father
Music reviews of Ararat
Music Review: One of the best film scores to come out in a long time.
Rating: 4 Stars
The score for "Ararat" is one of the better film scores to come out in several years. While some of it definately "sounds like movie music," a lot of it is original sounding and could easily make the leap to the concert platform with a few tweaks (or if you got some Armenian folk musicians to sit in!)
Composer Mychael Danna incorporated Armenian folk & sacred music into the more traditional score for western orchestra. The results are absolutely spellbinding. The duduk (somewhat similar to an oboe, but that's just to give an idea) and the kanune combine well with orchestra, and at times take on a "concerto-like" relationship to the orchestra.
Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian's voice is spellbinding (her solo CDs are also amazing and worth picking up.) At times, her voice, combined with Danna's music make it hard to choke back the tears. The music is just that powerful in places.
Most of the music is somber, yet hopeful...but one would expect somber music from a movie dealing with such a tough subject.
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The ongoing collaboration between composer Mychael Danna and film director Atom Egoyan has yielded numerous soundtrack gems, but Ararat ranks among their very best. Egoyan's complex film-within-a-film revolves around the Armenian genocide of 1915. Not surprisingly, regional folk instruments and choral singing play a dramatic role on this effort. Danna and Egoyan recorded much of the Armenian music on location, in a sixth-century stone church with no electricity, but it blends in perfectly with the composer's more sophisticated orchestral arrangements. This is dark, moody, and minor-keyed (not to mention gorgeous) music. By focusing on the plaintive sounds of a solo trumpet or duduk (Armenian flute) and the occasional choral track, Danna has created a truly haunting and mysterious score. A wonderful soundtrack. --Jason Verlinde
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