Zbigniew Preisner - Valley of Shadows (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) '2018

Tracks list

Polands preeminent contemporary film composer, Zbigniew Preisner was born May
20, 1955 in Bielsko-Biala; while studying history and philosophy at the
University of Cracow he began writing music, and in 1981 scored his first
picture, Antoni Krauzes Prognoza pogody. Krauze introduced Preisner to filmmaker
Krzystof Kieslowski, with whom he enjoyed his most fruitful collaboration;
beginning with 1985s Bez konca, the two worked together on a series of projects
including the 1987 television miniseries Dekalog and the 1991 feature La Double
vie de Véronique which brought them both international acclaim. The latter
picture introduced Preisners musical alter ego Van den Budenmayer, a fictitious
Dutch composer whose work surfaced in subsequent projects. 1991 also saw
Preisner step outside Eastern Europe to work with Brazils Hector Babenco on At
Play in the Fields of the Lord; he subsequently worked with filmmakers including
Louis Malle (Damage) and Agnieszka Holland (Olivier, Olivier and The Secret
Garden. In 1993 he reunited with Kieslowski for Bleu, the first chapter in the
directors celebrated Trois Coleurs trilogy; Preisners score for the concluding
chapter, 1994s Rouge, earned a Cesar, the French equivalent of an Academy Award.
He and Kieslowski were scheduled to begin work on a trilogy exploring themes of
Heaven, Hell and Purgatory when the director died on March 13, 1996; Preisner
later celebrated Kieslowskis life and work with the release of Requiem for My
Friend. ~ Jason Ankeny

Tracklist:
01. Aslaks Dream
02. The Calling
03. The Shadow
04. The Forest Gate
05. Aslak
06. Search of Lost Time
07. Moon
08. Journey in the Woods
09. Before Dawn
10. Zbigniew Preisner & Lisa Gerrard - Valley of Shadows
11. Odyssey
12. Zbigniew Preisner & Lisa Gerrard - Valley of Shadows - Wake Up
13. Metamorphosis
14. Afterlife

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