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1. | To Vou' Fa L'Americano | Matt Damon, Jude Law, Fiorello and the Guy Barker International Quintet | 3:02 |
2. | My Funny Valentine | Matt Damon and the Guy Barker International Quintet | 2:35 |
3. | Italia | Gabriel Yared | 1:40 |
4. | Lullaby for Cain | Sinead O'Connor | 3:32 |
5. | Crazy Tom | Gabriel Yared | 4:47 |
6. | Ko-Ko | Charlie Parker | 2:54 |
7. | Nature Boy | Miles Davis | 4:48 |
8. | Mischief | Gabriel Yared | 2:26 |
9. | Ripley | Gabriel Yared | 3:30 |
10. | Pent-Up House | Guy Barker, Pete King, Iain Dixon, Robin Aspland, Arne Somogyi and Clark Tracy | 2:40 |
11. | Guaglione | Marino Marini | 3:17 |
12. | Moanin' | The Guy Barker International Quintet | 4:16 |
13. | Proust | Gabriel Yared | 1:59 |
14. | Four | Guy Barker, Pete King, Iain Dixon, Robin Aspland, Arne Somogyi and Clark Tracy | 3:41 |
15. | Promise | Gabriel Yared | 2:49 |
16. | The Champ | Dizzy Gillespie | 2:45 |
17. | Syncopes | Gabriel Yared | 4:49 |
18. | Stabat Mater | Clifford Gurdin and the London Metropolitan Ensemble | 2:55 |
19. | You Don't Know What Love Is | John Martyn and the Guy Barker International Quintet | 5:22 |
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After the hugely successful, but (for me) crushingly dull collaboration between director Anthony Minghella and Gabriel Yared on The English Patient, it is only natural that they would collaborate again on this strange thriller starring Matt Damon and Jude Law. The psychological thriller elements certainly provide for a somewhat Hitchcock style film and has given Yared the chance to pen a much superior score to that on The English Patient. Of course, because Sod's Law always applies, it is only natural that the superior effort is given somewhat short shrift on CD, being as it is mixed with lots of old jazz standards performed by Guy Barker with and without his International Quintet. Fair enough if you like that sort of thing and possibly more enjoyable to people who want a memento of the film, but for your average soundtrack fan liable to be somewhat frustrating.
Admittedly Yared's score does not start promisingly with the pretty low key ethnically challenged Italia, but with Crazy Tom it starts to grow in interest considerably. There is a main theme which generally appears started as a descending woodwind motif; it is moderately memorable and really quite effective. The aforementioned Crazy Tom is based around a running cello motif that is mirrored, counter pointed and generally moved around the orchestra to impressive effect. Mishchief is a vibraphone based, almost jazz suspense type effort, but soon gives way to the mysterious and sombre Ripley (no, not the character from Alien, but the talented male equivalent), which contains woodwind writing that reminded me of Randy Newman's excellent Pleasantville, but the whole thing has a hint of Arabic harmonies. Syncopes brings the score to a sombre close, although there are still a couple of other tracks to round out the album as a whole.
By all accounts, Yared's music was not terribly noticeable in the film itself, but on disc comes across as most effective at setting the mood of betrayal and Hitchcockian suspense. However, the spreading of the score over the disc never allows the atmosphere to fully form and so one is always dragged away to some period song or jazz or whatever. Programming the score in order is well worth doing, even if it does come in at a feeble twenty fives minutes. It produces a generally tuneful, but moody effort that is by no means a masterpiece, but comes together nicely if heard as a whole. Of course jazz fans can simply programme out the score. Would definitely have been worth dividing the disc into two in this instance. Ah well, I'm not a producer, what would I know? The recording and somewhat thick orchestration does occasionally sound a bit fuzzy, but as long as it's not played too loudly the it sounds fine. All in all, another example of a good score spoiled by a poor album presentation, but worth hearing.
In de thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley zien we de psychopaat en loser Ripley die niets uit de weg gaat om zijn doel te bereiken, maar uiteindelijk zijn gecreëerde wereld zelf nog eens vernietigd, zonder scrupules in de huid van zijn slachtoffer treedt, een schrikaanjagende film.
Gabriel Yared componeerde een sublieme score, de setting in het idyllische Italië wordt begeleid door dromerige hartverwarmende muziek, terwijl de haunting thema's voor de gestoorde Tom Ripley gespeeld worden door massale jagende strijkers. Zeer knap zijn de sluimerende, maar toch zeer gebalanceerde melodieën met jazzy invloeden, een belangrijk motief in de film.
Daarnaast staan op de soundtrack nog heel wat source music uit de film, en zonder een echte jazz liefhebber te zijn, moet ik zeggen dat ook deze tracks me erg boeiden, en ze doorgaans niet stoorden door af te wisselen met de score.
Dit is werkelijk de meest fantastische cd uit mijn collectie. Het is dramatisch maar tegelijkertijd ook sublieme jazz. Toen ik de film zag wist ik meteen dat ik deze soundtrack moest hebben. De prachtige film herleeft met deze muziek!
その他のリリース The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999):