The Giver

Marco Beltrami's score available on August 12th 2014

Sony Classical will release the original motion picture score album of The Giver. Composed by two-time Academy award-nominee Marco Beltrami, the score for The Giver is available digitally on August 12 and on CD on September 16. Based on Lois Lowry's award-winning and bestselling novel, the highly anticipated film features an outstanding cast including Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgard, Katie Holmes, Odeya Rush, Cameron Monaghan and Taylor Swift. The Giver will be released in theaters nationwide on August 15.

The album opens with shimmering, ethereal sounds in the main titles, then proceeds with serene themes and orchestration in “Jonas Gets the Gig” and “First Memory”, and a beautiful liquid melody for keyboard in “Color.” These moods change with the stirrings of unease and drumbeats in the track “Happiness and Pain,” while the second half of the album expresses the developing conflicts of the movie with the martial percussion and metallic threat of “War,” the dissonances of “Accelerated Training,” and the excitement of “Escape from the Nursery” and “Capturing Jonas.” The recurrence of motifs and the musical summing-up in the end credits with choral effects and a lovely string solo bring unity and a calming conclusion to the score.
The total playtime of this score will be 49 minutes.

Track list

1. Main Titles (3:08)
2. Jonas Gets the Gig (1:33)
3. Color (2:05)
4. Arriving at the Giver’s (1:49)
5. First Memory (1:30)
6. Gabriel Arrives (0:58)
7. Do You See It (0:56)
8. Tray Ride (2:30)
9. Happiness & Pain (2:56)
10. What Is Love? (2:22)
11. War (3:21)
12. The Kiss (2:28)
13. Jonas Runs Away (2:52)
14. Accelerated Training (2:40)
15. Escape from the Nursery (2:10)
16. Desert Ride (2:19)
17. Capturing Jonas (3:32)
18. The Mountain and Despair (1:46)
19. Rosebud (4:33)
20. End Credit (3:49)