The Secret Garden (1993): "Shows Dickon Garden" & "First Time Outside" by Zbigniew Preisner

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Soundtrack 1: Shows Dickon Garden
Soundtrack 2: First Time Outside
Composed by: Zbigniew Preisner
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writers: Frances Hodgson Burnett (book), Caroline Thompson (screenplay)
Stars: Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith and Heydon Prowse
Awards: Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy
Country: USA
Runtime: 101 min
Release Date: 20 January 1994
Production Co: Warner Bros. Pictures

Storyline
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor. Written by Ed Sutton

Zbigniew Preisner
Zbigniew Preisner (born 20 May 1955 in Bielsko-Bia?a) as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski is one of Poland's leading film score composers, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kie?lowski. Zbigniew Preisner studied history and philosophy in Krak?w. Never having received formal music lessons, he taught himself about music by listening and transcribing parts from records. His compositional style represents a distinctively spare form of tonal neo-Romanticism. Paganini and Jean Sibelius are acknowledged influences. Preisner is best known for the music composed for the films directed by fellow Pole Krzysztof Kie?lowski. His Song for the Unification of Europe, based on the Greek text of 1 Corinthians 13, is attributed to a character in Kie?lowski's Three Colors: Blue and plays a dominating role in the story. His music for Three Colors: Red includes a setting of Polish and French versions of a poem by Wis?awa Szymborska, a Polish Nobel Prize-winning poet. After working with Kie?lowski on Three Colors: Blue, Preisner was hired by the producer Francis Ford Coppola to write the score for The Secret Garden, directed by Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Although Preisner is most closely associated with Kie?lowski, he has collaborated with several other directors, winning a César in 1996 for his work on Jean Becker's Elisa. He has won a number of other awards, including another César in 1994 for Three Colors: Red, and the Silver Bear from the 1997 Berlin Film Festival 1997 for The Island on Bird Street. In 1998, Requiem for My Friend, Preisner's first large scale work not written for film, premiered. It was originally intended as a narrative work to be written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz and directed by Kie?lowski, but it became a memorial to Kie?lowski after the director's death. He composed the theme music for the People's Century, a monumental twenty-six part documentary made jointly in 1994 by the BBC television network in United Kingdom and the PBS television network in the United States. He has also worked with director Thomas Vinterberg on the 2003 film It's All About Love and provided orchestration for David Gilmour's 2006 album On An Island. Silence, Night and Dreams is Zbigniew Preisner's new recording project, a large-scale work for orchestra, choir and soloists, based on texts from the Book of Job. The premier recording, was released in 2007 with the lead singer of Madredeus, Teresa Salgueiro and boy soprano Thomas Cully from Libera.

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[ShinySecret]

Best movie ever, soundtrack goes perfectly with it.

[Guillhez]

@Heightenself Whenever I think about what I didn't experience as a child I think about movies like this and everything inocent I got to have, and then in how all children watch today is basically commercial crap and, all they do is hang around by the internet falling prey to pedophiles. I consider myself lucky, but I feel sorry for the comming generations. BTW, great movie. I came looking for it cuz it flowed right in my head out of nowhere. And who could tell? That actress from Harry Potter!

[beeaaa93]

I love this movie, i wish they made more films like this one

[InnuendoXP]

@Guillhez

When I have kids, they will be watching movies like this before I allow them to watch the mindless kids tv shows that are on these days.

In so many shows these days, it's all so politically correct that there are no real messages sent, nothing to learn or understand. Just comparing to shows from the 90's, Shows today generally are an insult to the intelligence children are capable of.

[killercerys5]

So beautiful love the movie :)

[Heightenself]

this is one of the loveliest films ever. i grew up watching this

[hmmhowstrange]

Indeed one of the most lovely soundtracks

I adore the movie

[Sk8terGaMer89]

Awesome movie and a beautiful soundtrack...

Thanks for uploading! :)

[XmegxanneX]

thank god for this piece without some other music tagged on the end.

Truly beautiful