Mother Night [Soundtrack]

Michael Convertino | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 26, 1996)
• Original Release Date: November 26, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B00000150E
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #486,982 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Spiegel Im Spiegel/A Nation Of Two

2. The Jews Are Eating The Future

3. You are What You Pretend To Be

4. A New No-Life

5. The Hanging Man

6. Cactus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten

7. Allegro From The Four Seasons: Autumn - Vivaldi

8. Fratres

9. Love Raises The Dead

10. Leichentrager Zur Wache

11. Spiegel Im Spiegel/War

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mother Night, February 18, 2004

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P. Corona (Evanston, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews
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Mother Night is a powerful score. It will move and haunt you. Michael Convertino is painter of music and you will drawn into his land and mindscapes. Find his scores. He is a marvel.

5.0 out of 5 stars Stealing?, April 4, 2006

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J. D. Peters (New Orleans) - See all my reviews
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Hey Kevin-- I had a composition professor who had a Stravinsky quotation on his door: "good composers borrow; great composers steal!"

I'll be honest here, I don't have the liner notes to this CD anymore... but I'm a big Part fan. He's been rescoring is own music for decades (try finding all the manifestations of Fratres!). I guess I'm not convinced that those tracks aren't just straight Arvo at his finest: Fratres, Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, the two Spiegels. It doesn't sound to me like Michael Convertino re-orchestrated the 4-seasons' Allego either... But why is Vivaldi mentioned and Part not?

It also wouldn't be the first time a contemporary composer didn't get credit for his work. Ligeti found out he had scored 2001-A Space Odyssey when he decided to take a date to the movies and heard it! (Kubrick made it up to him, no worries.)

5.0 out of 5 stars Fans of Arvo Part may love it or hate it, September 3, 2004

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Kevin Lay (US - Arizona) - See all my reviews
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Stravinsky was accused of stealing music from Pergolesi when he scored Pulcinella. He retorted he would only "steal" music he dearly loved. I think this is the case between Convertino and composer Arvo Part. Two works (opening and closing) take Part's "Spiegel Im Spiegel" (mirror in mirror) and Convertino-ize it. Some Part fans will love it and some will despise it. I happen to love it. As austere as the original piece is (scored only for piano and violin) Convertino makes it lush and heart-rending. If you're a purist don't buy this. If you are not, prepare yourself for an adventure.