VA – The Pianist – (2002, APE)

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Tracklist:

01. Chopin – Nocturne In C-Sharp Minor (1830) (04:04)
02. Chopin – Nocturne In E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1 (04:22)
03. Chopin – Nocturne In C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1 (05:49)
04. Chopin – Ballade No. 2 In F Major, Op. 38 (07:32)
05. Chopin – Ballade No. 1 In G Minor, Op. 23 (08:53)
06. Chopin – Waltz No. 3 In G Minor, Op. 32, No. 2 (05:05)
07. Chopin – Prelude In E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4 (02:27)
08. Chopin – Grande Polonaise Brillante Proceder An Andante Spianato Op. 22 A (04:26)
09. Chopin – Grande Polonaise Brillante Proceder An Andante Spianato Op. 22 B (09:21)
10. Kilar – Moving To The Ghetto Oct. 31, 1940 (01:45)
11. Chopin – Mazurka In A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4 (03:41)

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Director Roman Polanski’s film The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish classical pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman about his harrowing experiences under the Nazi occupation of Warsaw during World War II. The soundtrack album consists almost entirely of Chopin piano pieces, most of them played by Janusz Olejniczak. Most of those, in turn, are solo performances, although Olejniczak is joined by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Tadeusz Strugala, for Grand Polonaise for Piano and Orchestra. The sole non-Chopin track is the excerpt from Wojciech Kilar’s score, "Moving to the Ghetto October 31, 1940," a klezmer-like piece running only 1:45 in which Hanna Wolczedska plays clarinet, accompanied by the Warsaw Philharmonic. Appropriately, the album ends with an actual recording by Szpilman of the Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4.

Review by William Ruhlmann, Allmusic.com

Roman Polanski’s telling of famed Polish composer-pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman’s survival in the Nazi-controlled Warsaw ghetto can’t help but be infused with the director’s deepest passions: he himself escaped the Krak�w ghetto as a boy of 7. The musician’s status as a musical hero to the oppressed Polish Jews of World War II was surpassed only by that of Chopin, the composer who was at the core of Szpilman’s repertoire. Thus this score revolves tightly around Chopin’s music, with modern Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak paying passionate homage to both his musical and national forebears, the haunting strains of the Nocturne in C-sharp Minor setting the film’s historical and dramatic tone. The underscore of previous Polanski collaborator Wojciech Kilar (The Ninth Gate, Death and the Maiden) is represented here by the soulful "Moving to the Ghetto," a cue that helps anchor the soundtrack’s troubling time and place with understated grace. The collection concludes with a rare, remastered performance of Chopin’s Mazurka Op. 17, No.4 by Szpilman himself, recorded in Warsaw in 1948.

Review by Jerry McCulley

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