Gabriel Yared - Sylvia

Title: Sylvia Artist: Gabriel Yared Release Date: 11/11/2003 Re-Released On: 1/19/2004 Label: Varese Sarabande Duration: 46:34 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

1. Sylvia, film score~Opening :: Gabriel Yared
2. Sylvia, film score~First Meeting :: Gabriel Yared
3. Sylvia, film score~Making Love :: Gabriel Yared
4. Sylvia, film score~The Cows :: Gabriel Yared
5. Sylvia, film score~The Scar :: Gabriel Yared
6. Sylvia, film score~The Marriage :: Gabriel Yared
7. Sylvia, film score~The Beach :: Gabriel Yared
8. Sylvia, film score~Seeds Of Doubt :: Gabriel Yared
9. Sylvia, film score~Don't Ever Leave Me :: Gabriel Yared
10. Sylvia, film score~Devon :: Gabriel Yared
11. Sylvia, film score~Fire :: Gabriel Yared
12. Sylvia, film score~Empty Streets :: Gabriel Yared
13. Sylvia, film score~Lonely Christmas :: Gabriel Yared
14. Sylvia, film score~Last Love :: Gabriel Yared
15. Sylvia, film score~Romance :: Gabriel Yared
16. Sylvia, film score~Beethoven :: Gabriel Yared
17. Sylvia, film score~A Beautiful Dream :: Gabriel Yared
18. Sylvia, film score~Dying :: Gabriel Yared

Year Type Label Catalog # 2004 CD Varese Sarabande 6526 2003 CD Varese Sarabande 066526

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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

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 Synthesizer Programming, Realization Nicholas Bucknail Clarinet Nick Ingman Orchestration Peter Cobbin Engineer, Mixing Robert Townson Executive Producer Rolf Wilson Leader Sophie Cornet Music Editor Susan Bohling Cor Anglais