Osvaldo Golijov - Youth Without Youth '2007

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Osvaldo Golijovs score for Frances Ford Coppolas Youth Without Youth
demonstrates the composers ability to transfer his prodigious talent and skill
in orchestral, chamber, vocal, choral music, and opera to the medium of film,
creating a score thats richly textured and hauntingly atmospheric. The music is
recognizably Golijovs, with its blend or juxtaposition or layering of central
European and Argentinean folk musics and a full array of contemporary
compositional techniques, but its also recognizably descriptive cinematic music.
Several of the tracks have a grand romantic sweep that reveal an aspect of
Golijov that he has seldom exposed, but at which he excels. The music involves
considerably more electronic manipulation than is typical for the composer, and
the effectiveness with which he handles the material ought to be an
encouragement to pursue that avenue of expressiveness more in his non-film
music. He makes especially intriguing use of the cimbalom and of gypsy-style
fiddling to evoke the folk traditions of Mitteleuropa. The Bucharest
Metropolitan Orchestra, conducted by Radu Popa, and various unnamed folk
musicians perform the composers complexly textured score with energy and polish,
and the recorded sound is immaculate. The CDs short two- or three-minute tracks
may take some getting used to for listeners accustomed to hearing the composers
ideas played out on a larger canvas, but the quality of the material should be
appealing to fans of Golijov and his distinctive polystylistic aesthetic world.

01. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Youth Without Youth (2:44)
02. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Dominics Nightmare (1:25)
03. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Love Lost: Laura (6:14)
04. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Refugee (4:20)
05. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Time (2:48)
06. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Dr Rudolfs Dream (2:51)
07. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Powers (2:15)
09. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - The Girl in Room 6 (1:44)
10. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Dr Rudolfs Suicide (3:42)
11. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Laura Reborn (4:05)
12. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Journey to India (2:02)
13. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Rupinis Cave (2:03)
14. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Malta (1:52)
15. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Veronicas Nightmare (2:19)
16. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Farewell (3:04)
17. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Love Lost: Veronica (2:41)
18. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Death of the Double (2:07)
20. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - Last Walk to Café Select
(2:07)
21. George Enescu State Philharmonic Orchestra - The Third Rose (3:57)
22. Stephen Prutsman - Love Lost (Piano Version) (6:16)

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