MusicGabriel Yared

Music Designer Georges RodiMusic Mixer Herve Le CozMusic Supervisor Canada Jean Robitaille

Music Recorded at Mega StudiosStudios FerberPlus XXX StudiosParoles & Musique

"La Casa"As performed by Dominique Tremblay and Philippe GagnonCourtesy of Polygram Records (Canada)

"Severina"CaféVictoriaI SalonistiMusic by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

"Song of Angutituak"Excerpt from "Musiques Et Chants Inuit" has been usedby kind authorisation of Ms. Veronica Angutetuarand Productions UMMUS 1991

Benjamin Britten: "Noye's Fludde"Performed by Donald Maxwell, Linda Ormiston, Richard Pasco,Coull String Quartet, Members of Endymion Ensemble, Richard HickoxBy courtesy of Virgin Classics Limited

Music in the film:

A number of ethnic musical moments occur in the film, and the film also presents the conceit that the romantic leads make love in the roof above the Albert Hall as the orchestra rehearses, a stocking drops on to the drums below, and London is bombed.

(Below: stills from the film)

CD Release:

A CD of the music for the film was released:

CD Philips (France) 514900-2 1993 (CD Verve (USA) 14900 1993 1. Map Of The Human Heart (2’23”) Instrumental2. Ma Metisse (3’40”) (Louis Nowra, Philippe Ringenbach, Gabriel Yared) Performed by Marie Pelissier, arranged and produced by Michel Coeuriot in collaboration with Herve Lecoz and Gabriel Yared at Guillaume Tell Studio3. Thrown Up In A Walrus Blanket (1’26”) Instrumental 4. The Artic Jig (1’27”) Instrumental 5. Like A Bird On The Way To Montreal (3’48”) Instrumental 6. Radio Voices Across The Ice (1’36”) (Louis Nowra, Gabriel Yared)7. Grandma Dies (1’12”) Instrumental 8. Albertine’s Waltz (2’30”) Instrumental

9. Lovers On Balloon (2’50”) Instrumental 10. Barefoot In The Albert Hall (3’32”) Instrumental 11. First Mission (1’58”) Instrumental 12. Bombing Raid (3’07”) Instrumental 13. Violin Solo (1’05”) Instrumental 14. Farmboy’s Death / Dresden Holocaust (3’50”) Instrumental 15. There’s A Map To My Heart (0’45”) Instrumental 16. The Wedding / End Music (8’40”) Instrumental

Composer Gabriel Yared:

Gabriel Yared is in reality a French-Lebanese composer, and his connection to the Australian industry is slight, with most of his work done for French and American cinema.

He has a relatively detailed wiki here, and this site here provided this short CV:

Gabriel Yared was born in 1949 and lived in Lebanon for the first eighteen years of his life. He attended a Jesuit boarding school in Beirut where he spent most of his time between the age of 4 and 14. Alongside his studies he learned music on his own, practising on the school organ and reading the repertoire thanks to the musical library of the Jesuits. He was first and foremost fascinated by what he heard and was soon determined to learn the techniques of musical composition, and pursued this by reading the classical repertoire. Although he benefited from a classical education with the great masters, including Dutilleux and Maurice Ohanna, he remains at heart a fervent self-taught musician, open to all kinds of music. At the end of the 1960s he worked every night in the jazz clubs of Rio de Janeiro for 18 months, and met several Brazilian musicians who had a profound impact upon his music – Ivan Lins, Jorge Bem, Milton Nascimento, Egberto Gismonti, and many others. During the 1970s Yared collaborated as a song writer and orchestrator with, among others, Johnny Hallyday, Sylvie Vartan and the Costa Brothers. He has also written music for dance and says: “I have a love of composing for dance choreography. More so than for cinema, this medium satisfies my needs to compose for the illusion, the imagination. While cinema communicates its message essentially though image and dialogue, ballet on the other hand draws its inspiration from music. Choreography is born from it, music is often the source of dance and movement.” Since 1980 Yared has devoted most of his time to composing original scores for film, and has worked on over seventy movies to date, including Betty Blue, The Talented Mr Ripley, Sylvia, Cold Mountain and The English Patient directed by Anthony Minghella which received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Grammy.

(Below: Gabriel Yared)