[ ECM Records / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 20 August 2011
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Since the film of 'Sounds and Silence' was first screened in 2009, ECM has been deluged with requests for a soundtrack album, so the label is making this available simultaneously.
Where the film shows the process of music-making, 'Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film' includes the music in its completed/produced form. There are two exciting exceptions - tracks from Greek film composer Eleni Karaindrou and orchestra live in concert in Frankfurt with saxophonist Jan Garbarek and viola player Kim Kashkashian as guests - these pieces have not previously been available on CD.
'Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film' is effective both as "film music" and as a highly effective and desirable ECM anthology in its own right. It presents pieces by some of ECM's best-loved artists, among them Arvo Pärt, Dino Saluzzi, Anouar Brahem, Marilyn Mazur, and Nik Bärtsch. There is music from Puccini's Tosca gloriously transformed by Natale Arnoldi for Gianluigi Trovesi's All'Opera: Profumo di violetta project, and by Giovanni G Kapsberger, performed by Norwegian lutenist Rolf Lislevand and his Nuove Musiches group. And Keith Jarrett plays Reading of Sacred Books by Georges I. Gurdjieff.
1. Reading of Sacred Books (G.I. Gurdjieff)
2. Für Lennart in memoriam (Arvo Pärt)
3. Apeggiata addio (Giovanni G Kapsberger)
4. Modul 42 (Nik Bärtsch)
5. Sur Le Fleuve (Anouar Brahem)
6. Creature Walk (Marilyn Mazur)
7. Tango a mi padre (Dino Saluzzi)
8. Farewell Theme (Eleni Karaindrou)
9. To Vals Tou Gamou (Eleni Karaindrou)
10. Ojos Negros (Vincente Greco)
11. Così, Tosca (Giacomo Puccini arr. Natale Arnoldi)
12. Reading of Sacred Books (G.I. Gurdjieff)
13. Da Pacem Domine (Arvo Pärt)