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 | Title : The Pianist (Music from the Motion Picture)
Author : Various Artists
Release Date : 20021126
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Roman Polanski's telling of famed Polish composer-pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's survival in the Nazi-controlled Warsaw ghetto can't help but be infused with the director's deepest passions: he himself escaped the Kraków ghetto as a boy of 7. The musician's status as a musical hero to the oppressed Polish Jews of World War II was surpassed only by that of Chopin, the composer who was at the core of Szpilman's repertoire. Thus this score revolves tightly around Chopin's music, with modern Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak paying passionate homage to both his musical and national forebears, the haunting strains of the Nocturne in C-sharp Minor setting the film's historical and dramatic tone. The underscore of previous Polanski collaborator Wojciech Kilar (The Ninth Gate, Death and the Maiden) is represented here by the soulful 'Moving to the Ghetto,' a cue that helps anchor the soundtrack's troubling time and place with understated grace. The collection concludes with a rare, remastered performance of Chopin's Mazurka Op. 17, No.4 by Szpilman himself, recorded in Warsaw in 1948. --Jerry McCulley
Buyer Reviews :
The element of music, which at times parallels the sense of absolute heart-break perfectly, can only resonate with us as we viewed the film with a sense of 'deja vu'....watching the suffering of those who were segregated, seized, humiliated, starved, oppressed,and killed-- with Chopin in the background --as military tanks moved in to fire at ghetto buildings with resistence fighters inside, being blown away...the reason that Nuremberg trials happened--and its all happening again; this time by those who were oppressed now become the mighty oppressors. Is this Polanski sending an alarm? warning? I wept with the sense that 'never again' really meant 'never US again'...Chopin Nocturnes were a perfect backdrop....
(by A music fan)
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