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Copying Beethoven [Music from the Motion Picture]
Ludwig van Beethoven, Antoni Lazarkiewicz, Bernard Haitink
Copying Beethoven [Music from the Motion Picture]
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An aspiring composer of humble means, 23-year-old Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) is seeking inspiration and career advancement in the world's music capital, Vienna. A student at the music conservatory, she is recommended for...  more »

     
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All Artists: Ludwig van Beethoven, Antoni Lazarkiewicz, Bernard Haitink, Benjamin Wallfisch, Robert Holl, Takács String Quartet, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lucia Popp, Carolyn Watkinson
Title: Copying Beethoven [Music from the Motion Picture]
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Decca
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 10/10/2006
Album Type: Soundtrack
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028947581765

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Album Description
An aspiring composer of humble means, 23-year-old Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) is seeking inspiration and career advancement in the world's music capital, Vienna. A student at the music conservatory, she is recommended for a position at a venerated publisher, and, in a fortuitous turn of events, orchestrates an opportunity to work beside the greatest, most mercurial artist alive--Ludwig van Beethoven (Ed Harris). When the skeptical Beethoven issues an impromptu challenge, Anna demonstrates her competence and musical insight. The maestro accepts Anna as his copyist, beginning a remarkable relationship that will transform both of their lives. Featuring Harris's remarkable incarnation as the celebrated composer, and a breakthrough performance by Kruger, ("Troy, "National Treasure") COPYING BEETHOVEN, directed by Agnieszka Holland, ("Secret Garden, "Europa, Europa") centers on the last years of Beethoven's life...a turbulent period in which his struggles with deafness, loneliness and family trauma all of which provide profound inspiration for arguably the greatest symphony ever written, his astonishing Ninth. An MGM release of a Sidney Kimmel Entertainment production. Myriad Pictures presents COPYING BEETHOVEN opens on October 13. The Decca soundtrack will be released on October 10 and features the works of Ludwig van Beethoven.
 

CD Reviews

From the perspective of a novice, this album is excellent!
ForPete'sSake | Centerville, UT | 12/17/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"My dad tortured me with classical music when I was young. It wasn't until several years later that I came to appreciate it on my own; and I still consider myself to be very much a novice in this genre. With that said, I think this album is excellent!"
Great cd
Ricardo V. Reyes | Los Angeles, CA United States | 06/07/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Music is so beautiful especially the Ode to Joy! Inspirational as only Beethoven can be."
An astounding 9th Symphony!
Patrick W. Crabtree | Lucasville, OH USA | 03/23/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is one of the finest Beethoven 9th Symphony performances I've ever heard. Unfortunately, we don't get much of it on this disc!



Still, this is a nice sampling of Beethoven's music and if you are easing into Classical Music, this would be a terrific place to begin.



If you wish to hear Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in a complete version, here is a great one:



Beethoven: Symphony No. 9



In any case, this is the story of Beethoven's late period of life and his subsequent death (1827), and a young and adept female copyist (someone who takes the scribbled mess of a composer's score and prints it neatly) who enters into a love-hate personal relationship with the great Maestro. This is one of the most gratifying contemporary films I've seen in years, funny at times, tragic at others. Of course, the writers have taken some expected liberties with actual history but that's okay -- this is entertainment, not a documentary.



Well done! Highly recommended."