The Red Violin (soundtrack)

Infobox Album
Name = The Red Violin
Type = Album
Artist = John Corigliano


Released = 1999
Recorded =
Genre = Soundtrack
Length = 65:33
Label = Sony Classical
Producer =
Reviews =
*SoundtrackNet Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.soundtrack.net/soundtracks/database/?id=2003 link]
Last album = Revolution
(1985)
This album = The Red Violin
(1999)
Next album =

The Red Violin is the original soundtrack album, on the Sony Classical label, of the 1999 Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated film "The Red Violin" (original title: "Le violon rouge"), starring Carlo Cecchi, Sandra Oh and Samuel L. Jackson. The original score and songs were composed by John Corigliano and performed by The Philharmonia Orchestra with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting.

The album won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and was nominated for a Grammy Award: Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (lost to the score of "A Bug's Life").

Track listing

*1. Anna's Theme 2:50
*2. Main Title 2:42
*3. Death of Anna 1:44
*4. Birth of the Red Violin 3:05
*5. The Red Violin 1:34
*6. The Monastery 1:06
*7. Kaspar's Audition; Journey to Vienna 2:38
*8. Etudes; Death of Kaspar 2:38
*9. The Gypsies; Journey Across Europe 2:07
*10. Pope's Gypsy Cadenza 1:37
*11. Coitus Musicalis; Victoria's Departure 4:40
*12. Pope's Concert 1:22
*13. Pope's Betrayal 3:00
*14. Journey to China 4:10
*15. People's Revolution; Death of Chou Yuan 3:15
*16. Morritz Discovers the Red Violin 3:38
*17. Morritz's Theme 1:54
*18. The Theft 2:10
*19. End Titles 1:46
*20. "The Red Violin" - Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra 17:37

Violin Solo: Joshua Bell

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title=Academy Award for Best Original Score
years=1999
before=Dramatic Score:
"La vite è bella
(Life Is Beautiful)"
Musical or Comedy Score:
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after="Wo hu cang long
(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)