Various - Shine [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] CD

Music by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Chopin et al., plus original score by David Hirschfelder, performed by David Helfgott and others.

I havent seen the movie Shine yet, but if its as good as its early reviews suggest, it may do more for the cause of classical music than any film since 2001.

The biography of the immensely talented, immensely troubled Australian pianist David Helfgott, Shine is dotted with the music of Helfgotts life, especially the daunting Concerto No. 3 of Rachmaninoff.

A windy and high-minded piece in The New York Times the other day asserted that the Rach 3 is not a sufficiently substantial piece of music to merit building a film or, for that matter, a life around.

Oh. For the rest of us, in our ignorance and intellectual shallowness, the piece stands as one of the great, swooning romantic statements for the piano a piece that stirs even the hardest heart, or almost.

The Shine soundtrack offers excerpts of the concerto, along with fragments of Chopin, Liszt, Schumann and other eminences, mostly performed by Helfgott himself. Film composer David Hirschfelders own music is decent and smart enough not to try to sound classical.

6001210910138

STARCD 6289

Philips, 1996

Country: SOUTH AFRICA

Good condition

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