Description
The Hours (Music From The Motion Picture) - Composed By Philip Glass / Nonesuch Audio CD
UPC 075597969320
The Hours is the original soundtrack album, on the Elektra/Nonesuch label, of the 2002 film The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The original score was composed by Philip Glass.
Not all of the music in the film was composed specifically for it: earlier music by Glass, including the "Protest" theme from his opera Satyagraha, and the Franz Kafka inspired "Metamorphosis Two" from his album Solo Piano, were also featured and credited separately at the end of the film.
The album won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (lost to the score of the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers).
Michael Riesman and Nico Muhly arranged the soundtrack for piano solo. This score was published in 2003 as a 64-paged book containing most of the tracks (excluding "For Your Own Benefit", "Vanessa and the Changelings" and "The Kiss").
In 2012, Dutch harpist Lavinia Meijer released 6 tracks from the film, on her album of Philip Glass approved transcriptions "Metamorphosis / The Hours".
| Label: | Nonesuch – 7559-79693-2 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2002 |
| Genre: | Classical, Stage & Screen |
| Style: | Soundtrack, Neo-Classical |
Tracklist:
| 1 | The Poet Acts | 3:40 | |
| 2 | Morning Passages | 5:30 | |
| 3 | Something She Has To Do | 3:09 | |
| 4 | "For Your Own Benefit" | 2:00 | |
| 5 | Vanessa And The Changelings | 1:45 | |
| 6 | "I'm Going To Make A Cake" | 4:01 | |
| 7 | An Unwelcome Friend | 4:08 | |
| 8 | Dead Things | 4:21 | |
| 9 | The Kiss | 3:54 | |
| 10 | "Why Does Someone Have To Die?" |
3:53 | |
| 11 | Tearing Herself Away | 5:00 | |
| 12 | Escape! | 3:48 | |
| 13 | Choosing Life | 3:58 | |
| 14 | The Hours | 7:44 |
- Cello – David Daniels
- Composed By – Philip Glass
- Conductor – Nick Ingman
- Contractor [Orchestra] – Isobel Griffiths
- Coordinator [Editor Coordinator] – Gregg Schaufeld
- Coordinator [Post-Produktion Coordinator] – Kara Bilof
- Copyist [Music Preparation] – Global Music Services
- Double Bass – Chris Laurence
- Edited By [Music] – Tony Lewis
- Executive-Producer – Jim Keller
- Executive-Producer [Album] – Scott Rudin
- Leader [Orchestra] – John Bradbury
- Liner Notes – Michael Cunningham
- Management – Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc.
- Mixed By – Hector Castillo
- Mixed By [Mixing Assistant] – Dan Bora, Mario J. McNulty
- Performer – Lyric Quartet
- Piano – Michael Riesman
- Producer – Kurt Munkacsi, Michael Riesman
- Recorded By – Jonathan Allen
- Recorded By [Recording Assistant] – Andrew Dudman, Jake Jackson
- Supervised By [Production Supervisor] – Karina Beznicki
- Technician – Christian Rutledge
- Viola – Nick Barr
- Violin – Edmund Coxon, Rolf Wilson
