The Pianist (soundtrack)

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The Pianist:
Music from the Motion Picture
The Pianist:Music from the Motion Picture cover
Studio album by Wojciech Kilar
Released 2002
Genre Soundtrack
Label Sony

The Pianist: Music from the Motion Picture is the original soundtrack, on the Sony Classical label, of the 2002 Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated film The Pianist starring Adrien Brody (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as "Wladyslaw Szpilman" in this film), Thomas Kretschmann and Frank Finlay. The score was composed by Wojciech Kilar.

The music was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music (but lost to the music of The Hours) and won the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Nocturne in C-sharp Minor (1830)" - Frederic Chopin, Notes at IMSLP 4.12
  2. "Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1" - Frederic Chopin 4.31
  3. "Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1" - Frederic Chopin 5.57
  4. "Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38" - Frederic Chopin 7.41
  5. "Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23" - Frederic Chopin 9.01
  6. "Waltz No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2" - Frederic Chopin 5.13
  7. "Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4" - Frederic Chopin 2.34
  8. "Grande Polonaise brillante preceded by an Andante spianato, Op. 22" - Frederic Chopin
  9. "Andante spianato in G Major" - Frederic Chopin 4.28
  10. Moving to the Ghetto Oct. 31, 1940
  11. "Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4" - Frederic Chopin