Suite For Symphonic Strings: Nocturne (The New Professionals Orchestra, conducted by Rebecca Miller)

Suite For Symphonic Strings: Nocturne (The New Professionals Orchestra, conducted by Rebecca Miller)
As used in the Motion Picture Shutter Island

Director Martin Scorsese's films have never used music as mere background noise. His attention to detail, especially when delving into a period piece, does not distinguish between the audible and the visual, a characteristic applied with great care on the two-disc soundtrack to 2010's Shutter Island. Produced by longtime collaborator Robbie Robertson, the tale of two U.S. Marshals sent to a remote Massachusetts island to investigate a murder is lent enormous weight by a score cobbled from the dismal atmospherics (the majority of the film takes place in a hospital for the criminally insane) of modern classical heavyweights like John Cage, Ingram Marshall, Max Richter, John Adams, and Brian Eno. Peppered between the long slabs of ominous avant-garde minimalist chamber music are fleeting rays of light from period radio crooners Kay Starr, Lonnie Johnson, and Johnnie Ray, resulting in a harrowing listening experience in its own right, and one that further cements the filmmaker's reputation as one of American cinema's most original voices. ~ James Christopher MongerEntertainment Weekly (p.74) - "[T]here's a fine use of Americana, particularly a fragrant ballad from Johnnie Ray and a stinging number from Lonnie Johnson that will crumble your heart." -- Grade: A
Mojo (Publisher) (p.98) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "An exhilarating, terrifying and beautiful trip that draws perfect tonal and thematic connections between the 20th century 'minimalists', avant-gardists, and the modern post-classical crew..."

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• Strings
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• Shutter
• Island

[liquidmorpheme]

This one is Lou Harrison. I've successfully identified all the composers on the soundtrack.

A word on that, though — interesting idea to use a collection of contemporary classical rather than a score, but assembled as they are, it seems to reduce them to "scary music," which depending on your perspective is rather insulting. On the other hand, it's nice to see such a collection assembled, and with such good versions of each.

Anyone else bothered or have thoughts about it?

[liquidmorpheme]

@MuseDuCafe

It's effing ridiculous, but the CD contains NONE of the info about who composed the various pieces. Effing goddamn ridiculous. I have been trolling the internet for this information, but I want to scream at whatever idiot put the soundtrack together to leave out the key info.

[CabeIsFly]

@MuseDuCafe exactly what I was trying to find out.

[MuseDuCafe]

Dear Uploader. Thank you for the music..

Did this little fine ditty of perfectly sentimental and elegaic bit of Symphonic String Music Compose itself... or does its composer get some credit for having written the lovely thing? Hmmmm?