NOTES ON A SCANDAL (Score)

 ABOUT THE SOUNDTRACK

Composer: Philip Glass
Label:
Rounder Records
Year Release: January 9 2007
Links:

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TRACK LISTING
1
First Day of School (2:40)
2
The History (2:54)
3
Invitation (1:29)
4
The Harts (2:14)
5
Discovery (2:54)
6
Confession (1:51)
7
Stalking (1:52)
8
Courage (1:44)
9
Sheba & Steven (1:21)
10
The Promise (2:40)
11
Good Girl (2:52)
12
Sheba's Longing (2:34)
13
Someone In Your Garden (1:52)
14
A Life Lived Together (3:01)
15
Someone Has Died (1:59)
16
Betrayal (3:44)
17
It's Your Choice (2:38)
18
Barbara's House (3:48)
19
Going Home (2:13)
20
I Knew Her (3:17)

REVIEW

The last time we heard Philip Glass’ Oscar-nominated score for Stephen Daldry’s The Hours (2002), we were left deeply depressed for a long time. We thought it was the most unobtrusive music composition that struck listeners with its looming dread we have heard in a long time.

The American composer is back with his new work for this movie about love, obsession and loneliness. And one spin in the player is enough for us to be tremendously haunted by the beautifully dark and lyrical score. Also, he bagged a Best Original Score nomination at the Academy Awards, but eventually lost to the hyped up composition by Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel.

Treading on the minor key, this 51-minute album showcases a quietly threatening mood that features some articulate oboe solos heard on tracks like “The History”, “Going Home” and “I Knew Her”. So fragile is the main melody, you’d be immersed in a sea of suspense and vulnerability created by the talented composer.

For those who have heard Glass’ work on The Hours and The Illusionist (2006), you’d find his frantically repetitive strings on tracks like “Invitation” and “Confession” familiar. This style is immediately recognizable in most of Glass’ scores.

Given the tensions and anxieties in the film, the music creeps up on you like a sinister soul, before consuming you with its hypnotic powers. Somehow, you’d feel the loneliness in the minimal orchestrations used in this soundtrack, and lose yourself in the lushness of Glass’ poignant compositions.


SOUNDTRACK RATING:

  

Review by John Li

 

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