Album Details
Title: Sylvia Artist: Gabriel Yared Release Date: 11/11/2003 Label: Varese, Varese Sarabande Album Type(s): soundtrack UPCs: 030206652628, 4005939652623 Genre: Soundtrack Styles: Soundtracks, Film Music, Original Score Moods: Dramatic, Reflective, Bleak, Intimate, Melancholy, Plaintive, Refined/Mannered, Sentimental, Tense/Anxious, Weary, Wistful, Brooding, Elegant, Gentle, Poignant, Romantic, Sad, Somber, Sophisticated, Theatrical, Wintry Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1 |
Track Listings
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Opening :: Gabriel Yared
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First Meeting :: Gabriel Yared
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Making Love :: Gabriel Yared
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The Cows :: Gabriel Yared
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The Scar :: Gabriel Yared
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The Marriage :: Gabriel Yared
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The Beach :: Gabriel Yared
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Seeds of Doubt :: Gabriel Yared
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Don't Ever Leave Me :: Gabriel Yared
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Devon :: Gabriel Yared
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Fire :: Gabriel Yared
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Empty Streets :: Gabriel Yared
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Lonely Christmas :: Gabriel Yared
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Last Love :: Gabriel Yared
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Romance :: Gabriel Yared
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Beethoven :: Gabriel Yared
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A Beautiful Dream :: Gabriel Yared
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Dying :: Gabriel Yared
Additional Releases
| Year | Type | Label | Catalog # | | 2004 | CD | Varese Sarabande | 6526 | | 2003 | CD | Varese | 066526 |
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Other Editions
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Album Review
Composer Gabriel Yared has consistently avoided the overwrought symphonic excess of his contemporaries. His dedication to simplicity has made him a darling among filmmakers who favor character development over bombast. His elegant score for director Christine Jeffs' Sylvia Plath biopic utilizes the lush strings and Victorian solemnity that fueled his work on the English Patient. The main theme employs a tight, "Eleanor Rigby"-esque cello arrangement that appears frequently throughout, and paints the film in rich, period splendor. The author/poet's eventual suicide is characterized by a sparse piano motif that constantly interrupts the orchestral work, mirroring its' subject's manic episodes. Although the piece as a whole seems caught between the big and small screens, like Mark Snow's incidental X-Files music with a bit of Merchant Ivory thrown in, Sylvia works its magic, partly due to its talented composer, but mostly as the result of its doomed protagonist. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide
Credits
| Name | Credits | | Andrew Dudman | Assistant | | Anthony Pleeth | Cello | | David Theodore | Oboe | | Gabriel Yared | Orchestration, Producer | | Isobel Griffiths | Contractor | | Jean Pierre Arquié | Producer | | John Bell | Orchestration, Orchestration | | Mirek Stiles | Assistant | | Nathaniel Méchaly | Realization, Synthesizer Programming | | Nicholas Bucknail | Clarinet | | Nick Ingman | Orchestration | | Peter Cobbin | Mixing, Engineer | | Robert Townson | Executive Producer | | Rolf Wilson | Leader | | Sophie Cornet | Music Editor | | Susan Bohling | Cor Anglais |
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