L’ENVOL Music Composed and Conducted by Gabriel Yared
Quartet Records and MovieScore Media present the new score composed by acclaimed composer Gabriel Yared (THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, COLD MOUNTAIN, BETTY BLUE, Academy Award-winning THE ENGLISH PATIENT) for the French romantic feature film directed by Pietro Marcello, featuring Raphae¨l Thie´ry, Juliette Jouan, Louis Garrel and Noe´mie Lvovsky. The film tells about the emancipation of a young woman who is raised by her father, a widowed war veteran, as she strives to find her own path in life over twenty years (1919–1939), during a time of great inventions and great dreams.
Gabriel Yared provides a charming and passionate romantic score, with a certain Mediterranean flavor and a beautiful love theme. There are also five original songs that are performed by the actors in the film. L’ENVOL is one of the best scores composed by Yared in recent years, which once again confirms him as one of the great film music voices of the last decades.
This CD contains five exclusive bonus tracks not available in the digital release.
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1. Passacaglia (3:27) 2. Étoile (3:44) – Performed by Juliette Jouan 3. Raphael Arrives (3:38) 4. In Town (1:02) 5. The Cave of Jeanne d’Arc (1:50) 6. Bullies and Witches (2:10) 7. Fernand (1:36) 8. Young Juliette (2:02) 9. Les voiles écarlates (2:40) – performed by Juliette Jouan 10. At the Bar (1:15) 11. Medals (3:29) 12. Figurehead (2:15) 13. The Adventurer (2:48) 14. Si tu es un fille (1:20) – Performed by Juliette Jouan and Inés Es Sarhir 15. Little Boat (0:40) 16. Coquinette (3:01) – Performed by Louis Garrel 17. Marie (1:21) 18. The Funeral (3:35) 19. At Sea (1:46) 20. L’envol Suite (4:46) 21. Hirondelle (2:25) – Performed by Juliette Jouan
Never heard of this film and score before but I was listening to it on Spotify and it sounds gorgeous. Yared is hit and miss for me but some of the tracks of this score very much remind me of Morricone. Which is always a good thing.
Yared has been very hit and miss for me throughout the last 30 years, but I have to admit that his old-school approach to things, often with a smaller ensemble (very "European"), in the last few years have felt very refreshing. This is an example of that. THE PROMISE, JUDY, THE LIFE AHEAD and LE DERNIER PIANO are other examples recently.
Yared has been very hit and miss for me throughout the last 30 years, but I have to admit that his old-school approach to things, often with a smaller ensemble (very "European"), in the last few years have felt very refreshing. This is an example of that. THE PROMISE, JUDY, THE LIFE AHEAD and LE DERNIER PIANO are other examples recently.
This score is stunning, but I don't know that it qualifies as a small ensemble.
There are 43 musicians credited in the liner notes on the CD.
There's a deep, enveloping symphonic soundscape to the score. It has an epic sound that feels like the best of The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
OK, so not that small, but still relatively smaller than the big Hollywood orchestras. Furthermore, there's something about his USE of the ensemble, the orchestration and the transparency of the melodies, that makes it sound old-school "European" to me.
there's something about his USE of the ensemble, the orchestration and the transparency of the melodies, that makes it sound old-school "European" to me.
I completely agree there. It's a big, classic movie score, filled with melodies. It doesn't sound like droing background soundscapes, like most Hollywood scores today seem to.
