Movie Sountrack / Film Music
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1965) of the film Doctor Zhivago. Composed and Conducted by Maurice Jarre, performed by the MGM Studio Orchestra.
Movie information: Based on the novel by Boris Pasternak. Producer: Carlo Ponti, Director: David Lean, Screenplay: Robert Bolt. Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Rod Steiger, Rita Tushingham
Video Credit:
Doctor Zhivago as played by The Metropolitan Pops Orchestra (1965). YouTube, uploaded by Soundtrack Fred. Accessed February 10, 2018. Another link leading to all playlist tracks: Here.
Playlist:
1. As played by The Metropolitan Pops Orchestra (1965)
2. Main Title
3. Komarovsky And Lara's Rendezvous
4. The Funeral
5. Lara's Theme
6. Sventyski's Waltz
7. Overture
8. Lara's Theme (Waltz Version)
9. At The Student Cafe
10. Tonya's Theme
11. March Theme-45rpm
12. March Theme-33rpm
Resource:
Doctor Zhivago (Film). en.wikipedia.org.
(c) 2018. Tel Asiado. Written for Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
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The Hours (Film) Soundtrack
Soundtrack / The Hours (Film)
The Hours is the original soundtrack album, on the Elektra/Nonesuch label, of the 2002 film of the same name, The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The original score was composed by Philip Glass.
Note: Not all of the music in the film was composed specifically for it: earlier music by Glass, including a theme from his opera Satyagraha, was also featured and credited separately at the end of the film.
Beautiful recording and interpretation of Philip Glass's The Hours, arranged for piano solo by Michael Riesman and Nico Muhly.
The Tracks
1. The Poet Acts
2. Morning Passages
3. Something She Has to Do
4. I'm Going to Make a Cake
5. An Unwelcome Friend
6. Dead Things
7. Why Does Someone Have to Die?
8. Tearing Herself Away
9. Escape!
10. Choosing Life
11. The Hours
Video Credit:
Philip Glass - Music from The Hours. YouTube, uploaded by coversart. Accessed January 31, 2018.
(c) 2018. Tel Asiado. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
The Hours is the original soundtrack album, on the Elektra/Nonesuch label, of the 2002 film of the same name, The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The original score was composed by Philip Glass.
Note: Not all of the music in the film was composed specifically for it: earlier music by Glass, including a theme from his opera Satyagraha, was also featured and credited separately at the end of the film.
Beautiful recording and interpretation of Philip Glass's The Hours, arranged for piano solo by Michael Riesman and Nico Muhly.
The Tracks
1. The Poet Acts
2. Morning Passages
3. Something She Has to Do
4. I'm Going to Make a Cake
5. An Unwelcome Friend
6. Dead Things
7. Why Does Someone Have to Die?
8. Tearing Herself Away
9. Escape!
10. Choosing Life
11. The Hours
Video Credit:
Philip Glass - Music from The Hours. YouTube, uploaded by coversart. Accessed January 31, 2018.
(c) 2018. Tel Asiado. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 - Soundtrack of Death in Venice (Film)
Classical Music / Movement from a Symphony
Adagietto, the fourth movement of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C# minor, which lasts about 10 minutes, is often considered his most famous composition and is frequently performed of his works. Its orchestration is scored only for strings and harp. It was likely a declaration of Mahler's undying love for his wife Alma, that instead of a letter, the composer expressed it in this movement without a word of explanation. Aside from Leonard Bernstein's beautiful interpretation (Sorry, video is no longer available), other favourite performances include one conducted by Herbert von Karajan (Mahler's "Adagietto")
In the simmering tumult of the Fifth Symphony, the fourth movement, Adagietto ("little Adagio"), is calm, with its gentle sound and restrained mood of sustained string notes and a bit of harp. It has full of longing - beginning quietly with graceful melody before it gradually rises to a soaring climax, then ends peacefully. Likely so, Adagietto is featured in the film Death in Venice, in 1971. In this French-Italian film adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel of the same name directed by Luchino Visconti, Dirk Bogarde stars as avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler), travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. Instead of finding peace there, he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Gustave has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence endangers them both physically and represents the corruption that signifies threats and destruction to all ideals.
Some people have labelled this film as a gay movie. I think it is not. It's a film about an artist who is convinced that beauty does not exist in nature but is created by man. The film exquisitely demonstrates the nature of beauty and not the nature of sexuality. The artist, as he is dying, recognizes beauty in nature in the form of a beautiful teenage boy. The conflict in the artist is perfectly represented by Gustav Mahler's music in the soundtrack. Beautiful!
Mahler's Symphony No. 5
One problem for Mahler's early audiences lies in his long symphonies, scored for huge orchestra. Mahler composed his Fifth Symphony during the summers of 1901 and 1902, spent at his new summer-house in central Austria. At its premiere in Cologne in 1904, the symphony was a complete failure with an audience unprepared for its dramatic power and scope. Yet a century later, the Fifth has become one of Mahler's most popular symphonies.
Mahler's "Adagietto" for Choir:
Mahler's "Adagietto" for Choir. Arranged by Gerard Pesson. Accentus Chamber Choir. Conducted by Laurence Equilbey. So beautiful! Accessed May 10, 2018.
Video Credit:
Death in Venice - G Mahler, Adagietto from Symphony No. 5. YouTube, uploaded by Thomai Pavlidou. Accessed July 7, 2017.
Luchino Visconti Morte a Venecia 1971. (Death in Venice). YouTube, uploaded by Slava Batareykin. Accessed 7 July 2017.
Gustav Mahler-Film "Mort a Venise"-"Morte a Venezia"-"Death in Venice"-Luchino Visconti-(1971). Youtube, uploaded by bilitis131313. Accessed 7 July 2017.
Resources:
Symphony No 5. www.laphil.com. Accessed July 7, 2017.
Symphony No. 5 Mahler. en.wikipedia.org. Accessed July 7, 2017.
(c) July 2010. Updated July 7, 2017. Tel. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
Adagietto, the fourth movement of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in C# minor, which lasts about 10 minutes, is often considered his most famous composition and is frequently performed of his works. Its orchestration is scored only for strings and harp. It was likely a declaration of Mahler's undying love for his wife Alma, that instead of a letter, the composer expressed it in this movement without a word of explanation. Aside from Leonard Bernstein's beautiful interpretation (Sorry, video is no longer available), other favourite performances include one conducted by Herbert von Karajan (Mahler's "Adagietto")
In the simmering tumult of the Fifth Symphony, the fourth movement, Adagietto ("little Adagio"), is calm, with its gentle sound and restrained mood of sustained string notes and a bit of harp. It has full of longing - beginning quietly with graceful melody before it gradually rises to a soaring climax, then ends peacefully. Likely so, Adagietto is featured in the film Death in Venice, in 1971. In this French-Italian film adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel of the same name directed by Luchino Visconti, Dirk Bogarde stars as avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler), travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. Instead of finding peace there, he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Gustave has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence endangers them both physically and represents the corruption that signifies threats and destruction to all ideals.
Some people have labelled this film as a gay movie. I think it is not. It's a film about an artist who is convinced that beauty does not exist in nature but is created by man. The film exquisitely demonstrates the nature of beauty and not the nature of sexuality. The artist, as he is dying, recognizes beauty in nature in the form of a beautiful teenage boy. The conflict in the artist is perfectly represented by Gustav Mahler's music in the soundtrack. Beautiful!
Mahler's Symphony No. 5
One problem for Mahler's early audiences lies in his long symphonies, scored for huge orchestra. Mahler composed his Fifth Symphony during the summers of 1901 and 1902, spent at his new summer-house in central Austria. At its premiere in Cologne in 1904, the symphony was a complete failure with an audience unprepared for its dramatic power and scope. Yet a century later, the Fifth has become one of Mahler's most popular symphonies.
Mahler's "Adagietto" for Choir:
Mahler's "Adagietto" for Choir. Arranged by Gerard Pesson. Accentus Chamber Choir. Conducted by Laurence Equilbey. So beautiful! Accessed May 10, 2018.
Video Credit:
Death in Venice - G Mahler, Adagietto from Symphony No. 5. YouTube, uploaded by Thomai Pavlidou. Accessed July 7, 2017.
Luchino Visconti Morte a Venecia 1971. (Death in Venice). YouTube, uploaded by Slava Batareykin. Accessed 7 July 2017.
Gustav Mahler-Film "Mort a Venise"-"Morte a Venezia"-"Death in Venice"-Luchino Visconti-(1971). Youtube, uploaded by bilitis131313. Accessed 7 July 2017.
Resources:
Symphony No 5. www.laphil.com. Accessed July 7, 2017.
Symphony No. 5 Mahler. en.wikipedia.org. Accessed July 7, 2017.
(c) July 2010. Updated July 7, 2017. Tel. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
On the Waterfront (Film Music)
Film Music / Leonard Bernstein's Symphonic Suite for 'On the Waterfront'
The music score of the multi-Oscar winning film On the Waterfront (starring Marlon Brando), was composed by Leonard Bernstein. It's his only original film score not adapted from a stage production with songs. Bernstein's "Symphonic Suite" is splendidly done with his music representing various themes in the film covering different emotions: violence, love theme, and pained resolution.
Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 -- October 14, 1990), was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. The tremendous success of "West Side Story" remained unequaled by his other compositions. As a composer, he was prolific, writing symphonies, ballet music, chamber music, operas, other orchestral and choral works, chamber music, and incidental music. According to The New York Times, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."
Film Score Review:
On the Waterfront - Leonard Bernstein. Movie Music UK. Accessed 17 May 2017.
Trivia (Added 12 May 2018):
To commemorate the centenary celebration of Leonard Bernstein's birthday, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) presented a 3-day performance, "The Bernstein Songbook: A Musical Theatre Celebration", May 10-12, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. 'On the Waterfront' "Symphonic Suite" was done at the end of Act I, just before the Interval. " Magnificent performance capturing the varied emotions of this multi-awarded film. Artists: John Wilson, Conductor. Lorina Gore, soprano. Kim Criswell, mezzo-soprano, Julian Ovenden, tenor. Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. Mitchell Butel, director.
Video Credit:
Bernstein, L - Symphonic Suite from 'On the Waterfront'. YouTube, uploaded by Sonny Beech. Accessed 17 May 2017. (From the album "New York! New York! Symphonic Dances and Overtures from Musicals". Performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conducted by Carl Davis. (c) Royal Philharmonic Masterworks)
Resources:
Leonard Bernstein: On the Waterfront, Film Score. AllMusic. Accessed 17 May 2017.
On the Waterfront (Film). en.wikipedia.org. Accessed 17 May 2017.
On the Waterfront. Intrada Label. Accessed 17 May 2017.
On the Waterfront soundtrack back in contention. BBC Arts Accessed 17 May 2017.
(c) 2017. Tel Asiado. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
Mozart Music in Movies and TV (Earlier Post)
Films featuring the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The list of Mozart music in films shared here is not exhaustive. Our
aim is to impart awareness especially of those music you've heard unaware it's Mozart's. The popular "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" appears in
more than one film, so does Clarinet Concerto, an all-time favourite.Adagio of Gran Partita, Piano Concerto No. 20 (2nd movement), Requiem, and 1st movement of both Symphonies Nos. 25 and 29.
After Peter Shaffer's 1984 film Amadeus, directed by Milos Forman, many people who aren't into classical music "turned on" to Mozart. To Mozartians and Mozart admirers, the general initial reaction about the movie was one of disgust since it was not historically accurate, but that's Hollywood. On the other hand, the good side is that some people who didn't know much about him were so taken by Amadeus the film enough to pursue more information about this child prodigy and his music. Mozart's music in the film Amadeus include Adagio of Gran Partita, Piano Concerto No. 20 (2nd movement), Requiem, and 1st movement of both Symphonies Nos. 25 and 29.
Here's a great website to the various music in the film, Amadeus.
Film: Amadeus
The Impossible Dream (Song)
Song / Down Memory Lane
"The Impossible Dream" - from the film Man of La Mancha
"The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" is a popular song composed by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics by Joe Darion. It is the most popular song from the 1965 Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and is featured in the 1972 film of the same name starring Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, and James Coco. (refer video below).
The song, which is awarded the Contemporary Classics Award from the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, is first sung by Don Quixote as he stands vigil over his armor, in response to Aldonza (Dulcinea)'s question about what he means by "following the quest." It is reprised partially three more times – the last by prisoners in a dungeon as Miguel de Cervantes and his manservant mount the drawbridge-like prison staircase to face trial by the Spanish Inquisition.
"The Impossible Dream" - from the film Man of La Mancha
"The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" is a popular song composed by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics by Joe Darion. It is the most popular song from the 1965 Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and is featured in the 1972 film of the same name starring Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, and James Coco. (refer video below). The song, which is awarded the Contemporary Classics Award from the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, is first sung by Don Quixote as he stands vigil over his armor, in response to Aldonza (Dulcinea)'s question about what he means by "following the quest." It is reprised partially three more times – the last by prisoners in a dungeon as Miguel de Cervantes and his manservant mount the drawbridge-like prison staircase to face trial by the Spanish Inquisition.
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