1st movement of Jan Valta's FULCANELLI - a soundtrack to a movie which hasn't been shot (or even been planned to be created]. Search for other three movements!
Performed by Christopher Lecian & Pilsen Philharmonic (conducted by the composer - me). :-)
PLEASE, read the story when listening - it will give you much more. Or optionally, download the FULL music & the story from www.projectfulcanelli.com - for free. Just tell your friends, if you'd like it.
We hope you'll enjoy listening it as much as we'd enjoyed creating this CD.
Your FULCANELLI team
FULCANELLI: The Story - 1st movement
Our story takes place in the city of Prague. A young man meets an alchemist. For some curious reason, the alchemist offers the young man an opportunity to work with him and to become his apprentice. The alchemist promises that he'll guide the young man forward, to achieve the most precious thing the universe has to offer a man - The Philosopher's Stone. Its power, can turn all lesser metals into gold, the most precious of all metals and to perfect all imperfect bodies through immortality. Thus, this "Magnum Opus" gives its bearer infinite wealth and life.
But, at the same time, the young man meets a girl. Though he is aware that the Philosopher's Stone needs the full concentration of a man and working on it is incompatible with human love, he falls in love with this girl. He hesitates between choosing a path as he is aware that he can only choose one of them.
One day, the girl tells the young man that they are going to have a child. The young man feels he would have regrets for the rest of his life if he missed this opportunity with the alchemist. The young man's pre-occupation with the Philosopher's Stone prevails his love and he abandons the girl to become the alchemist's apprentice. At the same moment he is entering the alchemist's house, we see the girl, standing at the entrance gate of the hospital.
Important musical themes:
beginning - theme of the alchemist
2:05 - theme of the young man
3:11 - theme of the girl (of love)
4:47 - theme of the child
in part2 - motif of temptation (of longing for wealth and immortality)
in part3 - motif of destiny
Search for the remaining parts of the 1st movement
Great music from projectfulcanelli. Great website too.
broomsticksotherhalf 2 years ago 14
Thanx! I added full credits on the website. Look for the link "CAST" to know all the people they've helped us to make this CD posslble. They deserve it. J.
JanValta77 2 years ago