Title: Animals in Love Artist: Philip Glass Release Date: 3/11/2008 Label: Orange Mountain Album Type(s): soundtrack UPC: 801837004021 Genre: Soundtrack Styles: Soundtracks, Film Music, Original Score Moods: Ambitious, Cerebral, Circular, Epic, Complex, Elegant, Restrained, Sophisticated, Uncompromising, Calm/Peaceful, Reserved Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Swans Take Flight
2. The Bath
3. The Gaze, the Scents
4. The Battle
5. Ballet of the Birds
6. The Birth of the Fawn
7. The Peacock and the Japanese Cranes
8. The Grebe's Race on Water
9. The Kangaroos
10. From Insects to Whales
11. The Happy Couples
12. The Orangutans and the Small Ducks
13. From Gazelles to Kangaroos
14. The Return of the Animals
15. The Swans Return/End Title

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Orange Mountain 40

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Philip Glass' original score for Laurent Charbonnier's Animals in Love is one of those beautiful soundtracks for what seems to be an odd film -- until you sit down and actually watch it. The way Glass' music, written for a chamber orchestra, flows in and out of these images underscores their actually touching moments and picks up on the human sense of strangeness when encountering the animals' mating habits, understanding that such encounters are not merely novel, but at time times reach the profound. Certainly some of his trademark tropes are here, but he's so far beyond most of those now in his method of composing that they are used merely for cinematic effect, not as compositional fundamentals. What Glass reveals about himself in this score is that he's at the very peak of his own powers as a film composer; he understands not only what's on the screen, but where viewers locate themselves in the process of seeing, making for an intuitive, sometimes dramatic piece of music that stands on its own very well. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Name Credits Christian Rutledge Production Coordination Don Christensen Executive Producer Ichiho Nishiki Mixing, Mastering Joe Keller Publishing Kurt Munkasci Executive Producer Michael Riesman Conductor Philip Glass Executive Producer Timothy O'Donnell Publishing Zoë Knight Publishing