Sylvia [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [Soundtrack]

Gabriel Yared (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Gabriel Yared
• Audio CD (November 18, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B0000TAZ9M
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #153,054 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Opening

2. First Meeting

3. Making Love

4. The Cows

5. The Scar

6. The Marriage

7. The Beach

8. Seeds Of Doubt

9. Don't Ever Leave Me

10. Devon

11. Fire

12. Empty Streets

13. Lonely Christmas

14. Last Love

15. Romance

16. Beethoven

17. A Beautiful Dream

18. Dying

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars lush, atmospheric, January 6, 2004

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This review is from: Sylvia [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

A moody, atmospheric score by Gabriel Yared to accompany the woeful "Mental Illness Lite" treatment in the 2003 Plath biopic. Yared's beautiful main theme and accompanying cuts are far superior to his concurrent Cold Mountain background score. A winner that unfortunately will be overlooked because of higher-profile Cold Mountain as well as this misguided filmed attempt at seriousness.

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like it sad and tender, December 29, 2011

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Laszlo "CD Explorer" (Ashburn, VA (USA)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sylvia [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

If you like to invest in 45 minutes of tender and sad music, this is one you should try. The use of strings is pervasive and carries the melancholy and sadness very well. The piano's role is minimalistic, almost monodic; very appropriate. There are hardly any long, memorable melodies, but rather phrases that are treated in different ways and linger (something most gfilm composers do, as a matter of fact). Forty five minutes for a CD might seem short value nowadays, but with this music, it is just about perfect.

I have heard this only once, but suspect it might grow with repeated hearings. Even if the subject matter is tragic, this is not tragic music, rather, it is full of sadness, tenderness, poetry and no self-pity; as it should be.

Ah, Sylvia Plath; what a tragic figure she was, but how current and compelling.

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh Sylvia!, May 26, 2009

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Blitzkrieg (Outer Space) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sylvia [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

It's a beautiful score that I often listen to when writing. I only wish Gabriel Yared would compose more scores as enjoyable as this one is.