Format Details:
Release Date: 23 May 2025
Label: Silva Screen
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 738572151874
Genres: Soundtracks Film Soundtrack
Description
Over a 60 year career director Akira Kurosawa's films have passed into cinematic legend and he retains his status as one of the most influential and preeminent film-makers of the 20th Century. Films such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Kagemusha and his last great epic, Ran are all regarded as milestones in the history of celluloid. The latter, the most expensive film made in Japan up to its release in 1985 is loosely based on Japanese legend and Shakespeare's King Lear.
Composer Toru Takemitsu ranks as highly in the echelons of Japanese music as Kurosawa in film with a prolific output of soundtracks alongside major music works and books. Commissioned on Kurosawa's instructions to deliver a score inspired by Mahler with up to 40 disparate takes of music, the spectral and eerie sounds capture perfectly the imagery on screen. Originally released as two separate suites of music this version includes those and adds a further 14 tracks of Takemitsu's score and appears for the first time on red coloured vinyl.
Tracklisting
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Federico Jusid
Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea & David Fleming
Barry Gray Orchestra
Carmine Coppola
City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Carmine Coppola
David Arnold & Michael Price
Estelles
Hofele/Takezawa/Strobel
Flavio Nati
Couturier Visse, Dominique Vi
Hansgeorg Schmeiser
Nederlands Dans Theater, Sabine Kupferberg, Gerald Tibbs, Leigh Warren, Joke Zijlstra
Paul Crossley
