Album: The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 

Original Release Date: May 18, 1999
Label: Sony
Quality: MP3/320 kbps/Stereo
Time: 1.05.59
Size: 151 Mb

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

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

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

Tracklist:
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

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