Eyes Wide Shut: Music From The Motion Picture [Soundtrack]

eyes wide shut: music from the motion picture [soundtrack]

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The late director Stanley Kubrick's masterful pairing of image, song, and symphony has forever imbued an impossibly eclectic body of music with indelible psychic connotations that range from cosmic grandeur (2001's Also Sprach Zarathustra and "The Blue Danube") to cynical irony (A Clockwork Orange's use of Beethoven, Rossini, and Gene Kelly's "Singin' in the Rain"; Vera Lynn's warbling "We'll Meet Again" over Dr. Strangelove's climactic vision of apocalypse) and outright left-field loopiness (the Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird" from Full Metal Jacket); he may not have written a note of it, but it would somehow always be his. Judged against that history, Kubrick's final soundtrack, Eyes Wide Shut, may well be his most subtle and consistently surprising. Typically disparate, yet utterly evocative of the film's complexity of mood and psychosexual undercurrent, it initially glides effortlessly from old Kubrick favorite Ligeti (an excerpt and reprise of "Musica Ricercata II" rendered as a stark, minimalist dirge by pianist Dominic Harlan), through a Shostakovich waltz and Chris Isaak's edgy "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" to the schmaltzy ballroom sop of "When I Fall in Love." Crucially, Kubrick also commissioned original music (a rarity in his work since Strangelove) by English composer Jocelyn Pook, and her handful of compelling tracks range from Elgar-autumnal to hauntingly avant-garde, all of it becoming a piece of the director's strange, satisfying stew of classical, rock, jazz, and ostensibly banal pop. A soundtrack that evokes Kubrick's very essence: complex, satisfying, yet wholly enigmatic. --Jerry McCulley

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Eyes Wide Shut: Music From The Motion Picture [Soundtrack]

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Yet another facet of Kubrick's genius...
they forgot..
Eyes Wide Open For The EYES WIDE SHUT soundtrack
reversed song using a computer
For those who criticize music without understanding it

Eyes Wide Shut: Music From The Motion Picture
Various Artists - Soundtracks , and Jocelyn Pook
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1999-07-13

Tracks:

Musica Ricercata No. 2 - Dominic Harlan
Jazz Suite 2 Waltz 2 - Concertgeboux Amsterdam (Reprise)
Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing - Chris Isaak
When I Fall In Love - The Victor Silverster Orchestra
I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good - Oscar Peterson Trio
Naval Officer - Jocelyn Pook
Dream, The - Jocelyn Pook
Masked Ball - Jocelyn Pook
Migrations - Jocelyn Pook
If I Had You - Roy Gerson
Strangers In The Night - Peter Hughes Orchestra
Blame It On My Youth - Brad Mehldau
Grey Clouds - Dominic Harlan
Musica Ricercata No. 2 - Dominic Harlan

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The late director Stanley Kubrick's masterful pairing of image, song, and symphony has forever imbued an impossibly eclectic body of music with indelible psychic connotations that range from cosmic grandeur (2001's Also Sprach Zarathustra and "The Blue Danube") to cynical irony (A Clockwork Orange's use of Beethoven, Rossini, and Gene Kelly's "Singin' in the Rain"; Vera Lynn's warbling "We'll Meet Again" over Dr. Strangelove's climactic vision of apocalypse) and outright left-field loopiness (the Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird" from Full Metal Jacket); he may not have written a note of it, but it would somehow always be his. Judged against that history, Kubrick's final soundtrack, Eyes Wide Shut, may well be his most subtle and consistently surprising. Typically disparate, yet utterly evocative of the film's complexity of mood and psychosexual undercurrent, it initially glides effortlessly from old Kubrick favorite Ligeti (an excerpt and reprise of "Musica Ricercata II" rendered as a stark, minimalist dirge by pianist Dominic Harlan), through a Shostakovich waltz and Chris Isaak's edgy "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" to the schmaltzy ballroom sop of "When I Fall in Love." Crucially, Kubrick also commissioned original music (a rarity in his work since Strangelove) by English composer Jocelyn Pook, and her handful of compelling tracks range from Elgar-autumnal to hauntingly avant-garde, all of it becoming a piece of the director's strange, satisfying stew of classical, rock, jazz, and ostensibly banal pop. A soundtrack that evokes Kubrick's very essence: complex, satisfying, yet wholly enigmatic. --Jerry McCulley

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Yet another facet of Kubrick's genius..........2006-09-11

...was his ability to pair song with image in just such a way as to create a subtle and evocative cinematic tension. 2001 and A Clockwork Orange were milestones in that respect, and Eyes Wide Shut keeps easy company with those great works. Listen to this music! The ebb and flow of the songs effortlessly mirrors the progression of the film, from reality to dreamscape and back again. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

they forgot.........2004-11-03

they failed to include Rammstein's "Du Hast." This is an gnarly song with and awesome video relating to the movie... check it out at http://www.universalmotown.com/mediaplayers/rammstein/player.htm . Other than that, it okay.

Eyes Wide Open For The EYES WIDE SHUT soundtrack.......2004-09-27

Among the most notable things of any Stanley Kubrick film from 1964's DOCTOR STRANGELOVE onward was the music he used in those films. Whether it was Richard Strauss' imposing "Also Sprach Zarathustra" in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the Beethoven Ninth in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, or Bartok's "Music For Strings, Percussion, And Celesta" in THE SHINING, Kubrick always chose the music to set the mood and the scene, and frequently provide ironic counterpoint to the proceedings. The same holds true for the music he used in his final film, 1999's EYES WIDE SHUT.

In this typically ironic film of sexual infidelity, Kubrick utilized original instrumental pieces by English composer Jocelyn Pook, including "Masked Ball" (used to chilling effect in the orgy scene in the mansion) and the exotic "Migrations" to marvelous effect, and he also used a movement from Gyorgy Ligeti's piano piece "Musica Ricercata" in those scenes where Tom Cruise's character is being followed on the streets of New York. Several big-band standards, including "When I Fall In Love" and "Strangers In The Night", are also utilized. And for the film's official musical calling card, Kubrick chose the Second Waltz from the Jazz Suite No. 2 by Dmitri Shostakovich. This waltz in C Minor gives the film its strange irony, much the same way Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube Waltz" did for the early space scenes in "2001." The performance of the Shostakovich waltz by the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam under the direction of Riccardo Chailly is magnificent.

This soundtrack is a musical valedictory to one of Hollywood's most enigmatic, controversial, and influential film makers in history, and is well worth picking up for its mix of jazz, classical, and world music sounds.

reversed song using a computer.......2004-09-02

The song is simply reversed by using computer software. Both the music and the voices are reversed.

A piece of art goes through a process of creation; it is not a simple click using a computer as in this case.

Anyone can reverse Mozart but the result is not an opera and author is just a person who plays with the computer.

While the songs in Christian-orthodox can truly inspire and generate positive effects the "reversed" song in the movie just gave me creeps.

I reversed the movie song using a software application and it is exactly a Romanian Christian-orthodox song and yes, I speak Romanian.

For those who criticize music without understanding it.......2004-06-14

The Jocelyn Pook's Masked Ball song wasn't just a simple reverse of another existing song, not at all.

What do you obtain if you reverse the song used in the movie? You get a similar opera tunes with a rommanian greek-orthodox pray. Though, the music (not the voice) is now played backward.

So unless there was some big opera in rommanian churchs where all the musicians were on drugs, playing and reading their music sheets backward, this mean the only thing that has been "stolen" was the prayer's voice. The orchestral song has been made to put the reversed voice on. They didn't just "clic" on a reverse button and voila. Jocelyn Pook did write an orchestral score and only added a reversed voice on it. Now don't tell me that composing an orchestral song is easy as ripping a Beethoven track ala Puff Daddy.

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