English Patient (1996) (Music By Gabriel Yared )

Product Summary Label: Fantasy UPC: 00025218160124 Release Date: 11/12/1996 Buy.com Sku: 60073235 Item#: M777JP Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. English Patient, The ~ Original Soundtrack 2. Retreat, A ~ Original Soundtrack 3. Rupert Bear ~ Original Soundtrack 4. What Else Do You Love? ~ Original Soundtrack 5. Why Picton? ~ Original Soundtrack 6. Cheek To Cheek - Fred Astaire ~ Original Soundtrack 7. Kip's Lights ~ Original Soundtrack 8. Hana's Curse ~ Original Soundtrack 9. I'll Always Go Back To That Church ~ Original Soundtrack 10. Black Nights ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Swoon, I'll Catch You ~ Original Soundtrack 12. Am I K. In Your Book? ~ Original Soundtrack 13. Let Me Come In! ~ Original Soundtrack 14. Wang Wang Blues - Benny Goodman ~ Original Soundtrack 15. Convento Di Sant'Anna ~ Original Soundtrack 16. Herodotus ~ Original Soundtrack 17. Szerelem, Szerelem - Muzsikas - (featuring Marta Sebestyen) ~ Original Soundtrack 18. Ask Your Saint Who He's Killed ~ Original Soundtrack 19. One O'Clock Jump - Benny Goodman ~ Original Soundtrack 20. I'll Be Back ~ Original Soundtrack 21. Let Me Tell You About Winds ~ Original Soundtrack 22. Read Me To Sleep ~ Original Soundtrack 23. Cave Of Swimmers, The ~ Original Soundtrack 24. Where Or When - Shepheard's Hotel Jazz Orchestra ~ Original Soundtrack 25. Aria From The Goldberg Variations - Julie Steinberg ~ Original Soundtrack 26. Cheek To Cheek - Ella Fitzgerald ~ Original Soundtrack 27. As Far As Florence ~ Original Soundtrack 28. En Csak Azt Csodalom (Lullaby For Katharine) ~ Original Soundtrack   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel includes: Ronnie Hazelhurst, Harry Rabinowitz (conductor); Marta Sebestyen (vocals); John Constable (piano); Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields. Includes liner notes by Derk Richardson. Recorded at Air Studios and Angel Recording London, England; YAD Music, Paris, France. Original score composed by Gabriel Yared. THE ENGLISH PATIENT won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture Or For Television. Gabriel Yared composed most of the music for the soundtrack of one of 1996's most acclaimed dramas, which was largely performed by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; John Constable (on solo piano) and Marta Sebestyen (vocals) are also featured. Yared's score is mostly typical wide-screen epic stuff--nothing special. More interesting are Hungarian folk singer Sebestyen's occasional contributions. A few period pop/jazz cuts by Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, and Fred Astaire are interspersed throughout, and are most likely more effective on screen than on disc, where they juxtapose uncomfortably with the orchestral instrumental pieces. ~ Richie Unterberger The soundtrack to this 1996 epic film combines Gabriel Yared's stirring orchestral score, performed by the Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields, with swing-era jazz standards like Benny Goodman's "One O'Clock Jump" and Ella Fitzgerald's "Cheek To Cheek." Yared's music complements the broad sweep of the film, utilizing grand, romantic themes with strong, simple melodies evocative of the film's bold images of WWII-era Italy and North Africa. THE ENGLISH PATIENTS's director, Anthony Minghella, is a musician himself, and it shows in the amount of care taken to create just the right aural atmosphere to accompany the film's poignant story of love and faith tested by a war-torn world. Producer: Robert Randles Engineer: Keith Grant Musical Guests Marta Sebestyen   Technical Info Release Date : 11/19/1996 Original Release Date : 1996 Catalog ID : 16001 Label : Fantasy (distributor) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00025218160124   Professional Reviews Entertainment Weekly (1/17/97, pp.61-63) - "...music that works brilliantly on the big screen and that grows on you slowly--but no less effectively--at home..." - Rating: B-    Product Image