Meetings with Remarkable Men [SOUNDTRACK]

Laurence Rosenthal (Composer)

Product Details

• Composer: Laurence Rosenthal
• Audio CD (September 13, 2005)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Citadel
• ASIN: B00000IAZY
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #208,980 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title-Father and Son

2. Boyhood in Kars

3. Duel (The Artillery Range/The Question)

4. "American Canary"

5. At the Ruins of Ani

6. Prince Lubovedsky

7. Gobi Desert

8. Expedition Fails (The Stilts/Death of Soloviev/Departure)

9. Journey

10. Great Prayer

11. Contest of the Ashokhs

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Winner Best Film Score, Oxford Film Festival 1978, REISSUED, June 6, 1999

By A Customer

This is the inspired and only orchestration available of the Gurdjieff / de Hartmann music, which was dictated by G. I. Gurdjieff and harmonized for piano by Russian composer Thomas de Hartmann between 1925 and 1927. All other recordings are of de Hartmann's piano arrangements.

Directed by Peter Brook and Jean de Salzmann, the film follows the story-line of Gurdjieff's quasi-autobiographical book MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN. Composer, pianist and conductor Laurence Rosenthal, whose work includes musical scores for numerous films and major television productions, including THE MIRACLE WORKER, BECKETT and PETER THE GREAT, has drawn knowledgeaably on the original Gurdjieff / de Hartmann collaborations and sensitively alternated these with his own compositions and with authentic Middle Eastern folk performances. His soundtrack won the award for Best Film Score at the Oxford Film Festival when it was issued in 1978/1979.

J. Walter Driscoll

Editor / The Gurdjieff International Rewiew. Author / Gurdjieff: an annotated bibliography (1985)