Artist: Osvaldo Golijov
Title: Youth Without Youth
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Genre: Soundtrack; Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 1:00:36
Total Size: 303 MB
Osvaldo Golijov's score for Frances Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth demonstrates the composer's ability to transfer his prodigious talent and skill in orchestral, chamber, vocal, choral music, and opera to the medium of film, creating a score that's richly textured and hauntingly atmospheric. The music is recognizably Golijov's, with its blend or juxtaposition or layering of central European and Argentinean folk musics and a full array of contemporary compositional techniques, but it's also recognizably descriptive cinematic music. Several of the tracks have a grand romantic sweep that reveal an aspect of Golijov that he has seldom exposed, but at which he excels. The music involves considerably more electronic manipulation than is typical for the composer, and the effectiveness with which he handles the material ought to be an encouragement to pursue that avenue of expressiveness more in his non-film music. He makes especially intriguing use of the cimbalom and of gypsy-style fiddling to evoke the folk traditions of Mitteleuropa. The Bucharest Metropolitan Orchestra, conducted by Radu Popa, and various unnamed folk musicians perform the composer's complexly textured score with energy and polish, and the recorded sound is immaculate. The CD's short two- or three-minute tracks may take some getting used to for listeners accustomed to hearing the composer's ideas played out on a larger canvas, but the quality of the material should be appealing to fans of Golijov and his distinctive polystylistic aesthetic world.
01. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Youth Without Youth (2:44)
02. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Dominic's Nightmare (1:25)
03. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Love Lost: Laura (6:14)
04. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Refugee (4:20)
05. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Time (2:48)
06. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Dr Rudolf's Dream (2:51)
07. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Powers (2:15)
09. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - The Girl in Room 6 (1:44)
10. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Dr Rudolf's Suicide (3:42)
11. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Laura Reborn (4:05)
12. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Journey to India (2:02)
13. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Rupini's Cave (2:03)
14. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Malta (1:52)
15. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Veronica's Nightmare (2:19)
16. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Farewell (3:04)
17. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Love Lost: Veronica (2:41)
18. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Death of the Double (2:07)
20. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Last Walk to Café Select (2:07)
21. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - The Third Rose (3:57)
22. Stephen Prutsman - Love Lost (Piano Version) (6:16)
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