The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

the red violin: original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

On this CD:

    The Red Violin, film score
    Composed by John Corigliano
    Performed by London Philharmonia Orchestra
    with Eddie Hessian, Gavyn Wright, Joshua Bell, Frank Ricotti, Gregory Knowles, Nicholas Bucknall, Christopher Laurence
    Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
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 Verlinde

Amazon.com essential recording
Normally 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 François 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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The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]
The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • The Red Violin...
  • Haunting
  • Beautiful Music!
  • Virtuosic
  • Accessible and beautiful.
 The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000J28V
Release Date: 1999-05-18

Tracks:

  1. The Red Violin: Anna's Theme
  2. The Red Violin: I. Cremona: Main Title
  3. The Red Violin: I. Cremona: Death Of Anna
  4. The Red Violin: I. Cremona: Birth Of The Red Violin
  5. The Red Violin: I. Cremona: The Red Violin
  6. The Red Violin: II. Vienna: The Monastery
  7. The Red Violin: II. Vienna: Kaspar's Audition; Journey To Vienna
  8. The Red Violin: II. Vienna: Etudes; Death Of Kaspar
  9. The Red Violin: III. Oxford: The Gypsies; Journey Across Europe
  10. The Red Violin: III. Oxford: Pope's Gypsy Cadenza
  11. The Red Violin: III. Oxford: Coitus Musicalis; Victoria's Departure
  12. The Red Violin: III. Oxford: Pope's Concert
  13. The Red Violin: III. Oxford: Pope's Betrayal
  14. The Red Violin: IV. Shanghai: Journey To China
  15. The Red Violin: IV. Shanghai: People's Revolution; Death Of Chou Yuan
  16. The Red Violin: V. Montreal: Morritz Discovers The Red Violin
  17. The Red Violin: V. Montreal: Morritz's Theme
  18. The Red Violin: V. Montreal: The Theft
  19. The Red Violin: V. Montreal: End Titles
  20. The Red Violin: 'The Red Violin': Chaconne For Violin And Orchestra

Amazon.com's Best of 1999

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 Verlinde

Amazon.com essential recording

Normally 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 François 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

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The Red Violin..........2007-02-03

The DVD is first rate, the Soundtrack defines the movie, leave no doubt, it should make you hunger for more...

5 out of 5 stars Haunting.......2007-01-10

I love violin music, and this delivered for me. It is haunting though, in that it feels a little eerie at times and even a little scary ... love it.

4 out of 5 stars Beautiful Music!.......2007-01-05

I loved this film so much I bought the soundtrack. The music is absolutely gorgeous! I especially love the recurring melody and the way it is interpreted differently for every different historical period or part of the world the violin is in throughout the story. I rarely listen to the whole thing at once, however, because (and I have this reaction to all instrumental soundtracks) I find it somewhat redundant after a while, but it's still absolutely wonderful and makes nice background music.

5 out of 5 stars Virtuosic.......2006-12-30

It's rather modern sounding. The final track is ridiculously long and, I feel, unnecessary, not to mention rather different in character from the rest of the score. But now I've made it sound like a sucky soundtrack--it isn't. It's a showcase of Joshua Bell through the ages. The storyline follows the life of a famous violin, and takes us though different periods of musical history. Therefore Bell gets the chance to render everything from a Classical concerto to a gypsie tune to the modern, beautifully spooky "Red Violin Theme". This CD is truly little more than an amazing violinist wowing us, but I really have no objects to that!

4 out of 5 stars Accessible and beautiful........2006-12-12

I don't understand the remarks of the reviewer below! This soundtrack is extremely accessible to anyone, and a great introduction to classical music in general. Corigliano's score is both cinematic and intimately refined. It is equally at home in the concert hall and behind the action on screen. That is an amazing thing to behold.
Buy it!

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