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Atonement

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MUSIC COMPOSED BY DARIO MARIANELLI PIANO SOLOS PERFORMED BY JEAN YVES-THIBAUDET THE BIG-SCREEN ADAPTATION OF IAN MCKEWAN'S BEST-SELLING NOVEL STARRING KIERA KNIGHTLEY The filmmakers of Pride and Prejudice (director Joe Wright) reunite for Atonement, based on the award-winning, best-selling 2002 novel, a classic British romance that spans several decades. Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's (Academy Award® nominee Kiera Knightley--Pride and Prejudice) lover (James McAvoy--The Last King of Scotland) of a crime he did not commit. Focus Features presents Atonement, opening December 7 in theatres nationwide. The Decca soundtrack will be released on December 4 and features original music by Academy Award® nominee Dario Marianelli, (Pride and Prejudice) with piano solos performed by Decca artist Jean Yves-Thibaudet.

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 4.96 x 0.39 inches; 3.39 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Decca
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2007
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 22, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Decca
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000TKW3E2
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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Carol G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Harmonizing with Soundtracks in Retirement
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2016
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In retirement, I've found more time to catch up on the digital age of music. I've found soundtracks to be one of my favorite genres, especially this one, my favorite. The music is incredible, and reminiscent of the movie scenes. The movie is one of my all-time favorites, along with Pride and Prejudice (also with Kiera Knightly) and The Piano. In Atonement's soundtrack, I especially like the parts that superimpose a male choir singing plaintive and sorrowful hymns as an orchestra plays a completely different song. It can make me cry! It brings on the depression you feel watching the movie when the surviving but aging sister confesses an awkward pride in helping the lovers to play out what might have been had they survived. This is a really moving CD. I just need to know where on Amazon can we go to find lovers of the same ilk in music? Where can I find a good list of movie soundtracks suggesting what I should buy next? I want to recommend my three favorites and get recommendations from others who like my kind of music. I sit alone in my house daily refinishing furniture and harmonizing with great music. I don't want to waste time and money hunting for more wonderful music. Is there an Amazon Music Club for me? Carol, Retired California Teacher, Eureka, CA.
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GabrielH
5.0 out of 5 stars Heartbreaking and Unique
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2013
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I've only listened through this in its entirety once, so far, but it's hard to miss the instant appeal of Marianelli's excellent work. The integration of the typewriter into the score gives it an instant uniqueness, a clear signature. The melodies are bittersweet (in a very musically delicious way); the emotional color wheel stays more on the side of melancholy ranging to heartbreak, so don't expect a peppy pick-me-up from this score.

Two things that I didn't care for were:

1. I wanted a climax; a suite of some sort that would take the gorgeous melodies and milk them for all they were worth, perhaps. From a cursory first listen, I didn't feel like I really got that.

2. The last track, a performance of "Clair De Lune", is nice enough to have in the library, I suppose; better too much music than too little; but I wasn't particularly struck by the performance, and I'd love to have been introduced to a *new* piece of classical music instead of one that I have heard a lot and already have recordings of elsewhere.

Altogether, though, an excellent score which I would highly recommend to any collector of film music.
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Istvan Regos
5.0 out of 5 stars Dario Marianelli has done it again.
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2007
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Well, it's so good to know, that once the great composers, such as John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Maurice Jarre, and so on, will be gone, the film music lovers won't be left with the void of silence. Dario Marianelli is one of the greatest hopes of film music today. His masterful Oscar-nominated score for Pride and Prejudice drew attention on him right away, and we are not dissapointed in him this time either. Marianelli's music for the beautiful romantic drama Atonement starring Keira Knightley and James MacAwoy, and directed by Joe Wwright(who directed P&P, as his brilliant first feature film) is nothing less than great. His themes are sweeping, and fluent, like a buquet of floating emotions. I particularly liked the use of an extraordinary percussionlike sound, a circa 1935-typewriter, which is, no dobt, a unique choice of the composer. Altogether I can state without regret, that Dario Marianelli's own musical style and presence in the world of modern film music is firm as a rock, and his Gloden Globe-nominated score for Atonement can aspire easily for a well deserved Academy Award for best original score in 2008.
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C. G.
5.0 out of 5 stars If you loved the book and the movie...or just want great music!
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2008
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The musical score to "Atonement" is exactly what every person needs when they read the book! As a person who has read the book and seen the movie, the music is another flawlessly created device to further engulf the reader into the story. Naturally, pieces of this composition were disregarded during the movie, but listening to them now makes the story that much more appealing to read and watch again! Having the chance to listen to such pristine music allows an audience member to hear every device the composer can use to enforce a particular mood and provide even more detail to characters! If you loved the book and the movie, you will definitely love this album that creates a world unto its own! This is definitely worth listening to, even if you have not read the book or seen the movie!
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Chris Garner
4.0 out of 5 stars A quality score
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2008
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This is a really nice score. I enjoyed it even more than Marianelli's previous score for Joe Wright--Pride and Prejudice. This score has several great themes. One for the character Briony which is driving and includes a typewriter as a percussive instrument, which is an interesting addition that I rather like. There's a beautiful love theme heard twice on the album. A couple other cues have a theme used only once in the film. The track "the half killed" has a menacing feel to it, and "Elegy for Dunkirk" is the standout cue of the album. Both are spectacular tracks. Several times the use of something from the film is incorporated into the score. The typewriter is the obvious example, but in one scene from the film a harmonica plays a theme from the score and that solo harmonica makes it onto the end of one of the tracks, as does a church organ later on. In "elegy for dunkirk" a choir of soldiers sings a hymn which is incorporated into Marianelli's score masterfully. It's a very well thought out score and I would be happy to see it win an oscar.
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The Bizz
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful score to a stunning film
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2008
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Atonement's visuals are lavish, lush and yet have strong sense of melancholy. Dario's score is absolutely gorgeous. There are no "action cues" of timpani and trumpet bombast; instead he uses the rythmn of a typewriter and classical strings to imbue a sense of forboding. The score fits seamlessly into the movie in ways remeniscent of the Lord of the Rings Complete versions, from the repeated typewriter motif to the harmonica theme and of course the highlight of the score, Elegy for Dunkirk. If you like beautiful, innovative music in a different vein from most sweeping strings and blaring brass scores, this is one you will love.
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Stella Starnes
5.0 out of 5 stars "Atonement" Film Soundtrack
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 10, 2017
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A truly amazing film soundtrack covering all of the music from "Atonement" as composed by Dario Marianelli and Jean Yves Thibaudet, this CD is infused with tracks that are made to tick you off, such as "Briony", "With My Own Eyes", "Love Letters" and "Rescue Me", and the off putting quality of the character of Briony is defined excellently by the fairly jaunty, playful and yet very controlled, loud sound of the keys of an old fashioned typewriter; it's brilliant. I wouldn't say that the typewriter sounds get on my nerves hugely though, in fact, they simply remind me of Briony's character in the film and reveal her as one who is compelled to interfere a lot and so means you to dislike her, so adds something more to her personality, which is very different considering that she starts out as a child antagonist (whilst wanting to be a heroine from the start) only to turn into an adult heroine by the end. This transformation is done justice in the tracks "Denouement", "Atonement" and "Debussy: Clair de lune", and the music in each of these tracks is so raw and beautiful that you can feel the sorrow that Briony feels in the film for her foolish actions of her youth, and so honest that it strikes a chord inside you.
However, as heartbreaking as the music is for the characters of Robbie and Cecilia, it is so touching, profound and romantic that you can't help but feel far more fondness and love for them than for Briony. The fact that she means to tick one off and that there's more than one track filled with the sound of the typewriter to prove it is balanced out spectacularly with "Two Figures by a Fountain" and "Cee, You and Tea" which are a delight to listen to, and of course the keening music in "Farewell" and "Come Back" is even more poignant and ruddy powerful for it; "Farewell" basically stands as a farewell to their desire to be together physically altogether, and "Come Back" really is a plea for that desire to be fulfilled. Both of these tracks simply highlight Briony as the antagonist who separated Robbie and Cecilia, period, never mind that she was a child at first, and speak of an earthly life between the two cut short and instead made even lonelier with the deeply sad music in "The Half Killed" and "Elegy for Dunkirk", which is also hugely stirring and sure gets you sitting to attention as those notes of hopelessness play out, along with the singing of the soldiers' choir in "Elegy" and in the beginning of "Come Back" (and their voices are hauntingly beautiful).
I love "The Cottage on the Beach" because even though it is something of a selfish hope of Briony's to reunite Robbie and Cecilia in her ideas of the afterlife in the film, the music for this track is suddenly so light hearted and glad that it is a lovely surprise to listen to it after all of the moody music in which all hope seems to fade and die. It also reminds me of the scene in the film when Robbie and Cecilia are shown to be on the beach and happy in each other's company, and that theirs was a match made in heaven.
I am very happy with this film soundtrack of "Atonement", it was delivered in very good time and while the casing of the one that I received is a little broken in one corner, it is still in excellent condition and the CD plays very smoothly. It comes with a little booklet that includes a number of brightly coloured photographs of the main characters which are very nice to look at, and I recommend this soundtrack to any fans of the film and of the book by Ian McEwan.
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Lallau
5.0 out of 5 stars Superbe musique pour un film extraordinaire.
Reviewed in France on May 17, 2017
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Bien qu'il soit souvent décrié d'employer des superlatifs pour des motifs déraisonnables, il est toutefois rare que chacune des parties de musique accompagnantes les différentes scènes du film soit aussi subtiles et sensibles.
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Ramón
5.0 out of 5 stars BSO
Reviewed in Spain on November 15, 2015
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Excelente, maravillosa. Una auténtica delicia. Ganó el oscar en su edición y se lo merece con creces. No puede faltarle a todos y a todas los amantes de la música de las películas.
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Eszter S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Emotionen pur - wenn Instrumente Geschichten erzählen
Reviewed in Germany on December 20, 2011
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Ja, der Film ist überaus dramatisch und bewegend. Eine Liebes- und Leidensgeschichte, wie sie tragischer nicht sein könnte.
Junge Liebe unter unheilvollem Stern geknüpft, die durch die "kleine" Lüge eines jungen Mädchens zerstört wird. Es heißt ja, dass der Flügelschlag eines Schmetterlings an einem anderen Ort ganze Stürm verursachen kann. So ähnlich ist es auch in dieser Geschichte. Eine vermeintlich kleine Tat, die überaus drastische Auswirkungen hat und schlussendlich die "Schuldige" selbst fast zu Grunde richtet.

Zu dieser traurigen und ergreifenden Story hätte sich wohl kein besserer Komponist finden können, als Dario Marianelli. Wenn einer es schafft, dass Instrumente von Herzschmerz und Hoffnungslosigkeit erzählen und durch ein paar Töne mehr sagen, als 1000 Worte es könnten, dann er. Die Musik ist unwahrscheinlich schön und gleichzeitig so melancholisch und traurig, dass mir selbst jetzt noch - nach mehreren Jahren - bei einzelnen Stücken die Tränen kommen.

Natürlich sind auf dem Album einige Lieder drauf, bei denen das Thema immer wieder neu aufgegriffen und etwas abgewandelt verarbeitet wird. Das tut ihm meiner Meinung nach aber keinen Abbruch. Außerdem befinden sich darauf solch unbeschreiblich schöne Stücke, dass man meinen könne, die Musik sei nicht von dieser Welt.
Meine persönlichen Favoriten sind 10. Elegy For Dunkirk, 12. Denouement und 14. Atonement. Bei Elegy For Dunkirk werden die Instrumente von einem Männerchor begleitet. Da zieht es mir wirklich jedes Mal eine Gänsehaut über. Sagenhaftes schön!

FAZIT: Auch meiner Meinung nach hat sich dieser Soundtrack den Oscar mehr als verdient.

Ans Herz legen möchte ich allen noch Dario Marianellis Komposition zu  Stolz & Vorurteil - Pride & Prejudice  und sein neuestes Werk zu  Jane Eyre/Ost . Sind beide wunderschön und ein unvergleichlicher Hörgenuss.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 映画にひたれます
Reviewed in Japan on March 14, 2009
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とても美しい音楽ばかりでした。
映画が素敵だったので、購入しました。
映画のとおり悲しくて美しい曲で映画の余韻が
楽しめます。
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