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The Soundtrack

posted 17 years ago by flummage
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I'm unable to, so far, to to find any information about the soundtrack online.

Inparticular there is a piano theme introduced in the second secend segment, during the introductory shot of the Maison, and it resurfaces through in places...

It's quite the most haunting theme, and signficantly adds to the beauty of the film, I would say. I imagine perhaps even a standard, or recognised piece rather an an original part of the score, but I would love to know if anyone knows what it is, or has any info on it.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed...

If nothing else, I'm glad to give the film, and to those invovled, even all these years later, a little acknowledgement, even on a tucked away IMDB thread.

[–] kyrie73 13 years ago

I don't know about the Maison segment theme, but the theme opening the movie, appearing in the church scene and ending the film is Mozart's Ave verum corpus, in an instrumental version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KUDs8KJc_c

[–] mickeyv007 12 years ago

I believe I know what you are talking about in the Maison segment - not Mozart. It surprised me to hear the theme, since it was used in the "Cousin Bette" film, as an instrumental theme and with Elizabeth Shue, as a performer, singing lyrics to it. The soundtrack CD of Bette, which I have, states that the piece is adaptated from Pierre de Beranger, evidentally the composer.

[–] Aulic Exclusiva 12 years ago

Mozart's Ave verum corpus, in an instrumental version

In fact from Tchaikovsky's orchestral suite, Mozartiana.

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