Since the film of 'Sounds and Silence' was first screened in 2009, ECM has been deluged with requests for a soundtrack album, so the label is making this available simultaneously. Where the film shows the process of music-making, 'Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film' includes the music in its completed/ produced form. There are two exciting exceptions - tracks from Greek film composer Eleni Karaindrou and orchestra live in concert in Frankfurt with saxophonist Jan Garbarek and viola player Kim Kashkashian as guests - these pieces have not previously been available on CD.
'Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film' is effective both as film music and as a highly effective and desirable ECM anthology in its own right. It presents pieces by some of ECM's best-loved artists, among them Arvo P�rt, Dino Saluzzi, Anouar Brahem, Marilyn Mazur, and Nik B�rtsch. There is music from Puccini's Tosca gloriously transformed by Natale Arnoldi for Gianluigi Trovesi's All'Opera: Profumo di violetta project, and by Giovanni G Kapsberger, performed by Norwegian lutenist Rolf Lislevand and his Nuove Musiches group. And Keith Jarrett plays Reading of Sacred Books by Georges I. Gurdjieff.
The soundtrack/anthology also refocuses interest on the ECM discographies of the featured musicians and composers. Related ECM albums:
� Keith Jarrett: Sacred Hymns of G.I. Gurdjieff
� Arvo P�rt: In Principio
� Rolf Lislevand: Nuove Musiche
� Nik B�rtsch's Ronin: Holon
� Anouar Brahem: Le Voyage de Sahar
� Marilyn Mazur: Elixir
� Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner: Ojos Negros
� Gianluigi Trovesi: All'Opera - Profumo di violetta
� Eleni Karaindrou: Music for Films
Personnel: Keith Jarrett (piano); Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, T�nu Kaljuste (conductor); Rolf Lislevand (archlute, baroque guitar), Arianna Savall (voice), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Thor-Harald Johnsen (chitarra battente); Nik Bartsch's Ronin; Anouar Brahem (oud), Fran�ois Couturier (piano), Jean-Louis Matinier (accordion); Marilyn Mazur (percussion); Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon), Anja Lechner (cello); Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Eleni Karaindrou (piano), Camerata Orchestra, Athens, Alexandros Myrat (conductor); Gianluigi Trovesi (alto saxophone), Filarmonica Mousik�, Savino Acquaviva (conductor)
