The Red Violin is the original soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

, on the Sony Classical label, of the 1999

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 film

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 The Red Violin

The Red Violin

The Red Violin is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed by François Girard. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious violin and its many owners...

 (original title: Le violon rouge), starring Carlo Cecchi

Carlo Cecchi

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, Sandra Oh

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 and Samuel L. Jackson

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. The original score

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 and song

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s were composed by John Corigliano

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 and performed by Philharmonia Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

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 with Esa-Pekka Salonen

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 conducting.

The album won the Academy Award for Best Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score

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 and was nominated for a Grammy Award

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: Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (lost to the score of A Bug's Life).

Track listing

1. Anna's Theme 2:50
2. Main Title 2:42
3. Death of Anna 1:44
4. Birth of the Red Violin 3:05
5. The Red Violin 1:34
6. The Monastery 1:06
7. Kaspar's Audition; Journey to Vienna 2:38
8. Etudes; Death of Kaspar 2:38
9. The Gypsies; Journey Across Europe 2:07
10. Pope's Gypsy Cadenza 1:37
11. Coitus Musicalis; Victoria's Departure 4:40
12. Pope's Concert 1:22
13. Pope's Betrayal 3:00
14. Journey to China 4:10
15. People's Revolution; Death of Chou Yuan 3:15
16. Morritz Discovers the Red Violin 3:38
17. Morritz's Theme 1:54
18. The Theft 2:10
19. End Titles 1:46
20. "The Red Violin" - Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra 17:37

Violin Solo: Joshua Bell

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