Atonement – Dario Marianelli (For Piano)
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Atonement is a 2007 romantic war drama film directed by Joe Wright and starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, and Vanessa Redgrave. It is based on the 2001 novel by Ian McEwan. The film chronicles a crime and its consequences over six decades, beginning in the 1930s. It was produced for StudioCanal and filmed in England. Distributed in most of the world by Universal Studios, it was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2007 and in North America exactly three months later on 7 December 2007.
Atonement opened both the 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival and the 64th Venice International Film Festival, making Wright, at age 35, the youngest director ever to open the Venice event. The film was a commercial success and earned a worldwide gross of approximately $129 million against a budget of $30 million. Critics praised its acting, emotional depth, Wright’s direction, Dario Marianelli’s score, the cinematography, editing, visuals, and the film’s incorporation of real-life events.
Among numerous accolades, Atonement was nominated in seven categories at the 80th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (for Ronan), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score, which it won; and also garnered fourteen nominations at the 61st British Academy Film Awards, winning both Best Film and Production Design; and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
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Atonement (Music from the Motion Picture) is the soundtrack album from the 2007 film Atonement, composed by Dario Marianelli and performed by the English Chamber Orchestra, French classical pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and cellist Caroline Dale. This was their second collaboration with director Joe Wright, following the soundtrack for his 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice.
In addition to winning an Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Marianelli received nominations for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Composer and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Original Score. Marianelli also received three awards for Film Score of the Year, Best Original Score, and Film Music Composition of the Year for “Elegy for Dunkirk” in the International Film Music Critics Association Awards.
Atonement – Dario Marianelli [Cover by Jessie Black]
Composition
The most notable elements of the score are the piano and the typewriter, which is often directly influenced by the characters’ actions: when a character stops typing on the typewriter, for example, the ticking typewriter in the score ceases.
The title of track 4, “Cee, You and Tea” is a play on the spelling of the word “cunt,” which is in the letter that Robbie writes and Briony intercepts, thus setting off the most important chain of events in the film.
“Elegy for Dunkirk”, which accompanies an unbroken tracking shot around the beach at Dunkirk features a diegetic performance of the hymn “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind” to the tune “Repton” by Hubert Parry.
Not included on the album is the track heard in the trailer, The Vision, written by Chris Field, and licensed through X-Ray Dog. After the release of the trailer, The Vision became one of Chris Field’s and X-Ray Dog’s best known pieces.
Track listing
"Briony" (Dario Marianelli) – 1:44
"Robbie's Note" (Dario Marianelli) – 3:04
"Two Figures By a Fountain" (Dario Marianelli) – 1:15
"Cee, You and Tea" (Dario Marianelli) – 2:25
"With My Own Eyes" (Dario Marianelli) – 4:40
"Farewell" (Dario Marianelli) – 3:32
"Love Letters" (Dario Marianelli) – 3:09
"The Half Killed" (Dario Marianelli) – 2:09
"Rescue Me" (Dario Marianelli) – 3:17
"Elegy for Dunkirk" (Dario Marianelli) – 4:15
"Come Back" (Dario Marianelli) – 4:28
"Denouement" (Dario Marianelli) – 2:27
"The Cottage on the Beach" (Dario Marianelli) 3:24
"Atonement" (Dario Marianelli) – 5:18
"Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune" (Claude Debussy) – 4:52