Music - Youth Without Youth
While Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov has become the darling of classical venues over the world with the evening-length works Ainadamar and La Pasión según San Marcos, this rich score clearly indicates that he’s also going to give Philip Glass a run for his money in the classy-soundtrack department. For starters, Youth Without Youth offers a lot more variety than Glass usually comes up with. Since Francis Ford Coppola's movie is based on a novella by Romania's Mircea Eliade and is set in the 1930s, Golijov superbly suggests a moody, mysterious, highly dramatic Mitteleuropa--at times you feel like you're listening to a classic Hollywood score from the 1940s or 1950s, as if Max Steiner had hooked up with some gypsies. (Weirdly, "Malta," co-written with Arturo Castro, also brings to mind "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret.) Crucial to Golijov's sonic palette here are the dulcimer-like cimbalom (played by Kálmán Balogh) and the fiddle-like kamänche (played by Kayhan Kalhor). Balogh and Michael Ward-Bergeman, on accordion, face off fiercely on "Refugee," for instance. A couple of crackly songs, "O Alba Tigareta Parfumata" and "Noapte Buna Mimi," round off the CD, as if emerging from a jukebox lost in the rubble of old Bucharest. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Album information
| Release Date (USA): |
2007-12-11 |
| Release Date (UK): |
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| Artist/s: |
Osvaldo Golijov |
| Label: |
Deutsche Grammophon |
Track Listing
| 1 |
Youth Without Youth |
composed by Osvaldo Golijov and Arturo Castro |
| 2 |
Dominic's Nightmare |
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| 3 |
Love Lost: Laura |
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| 4 |
Refugee |
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| 5 |
Time |
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| 6 |
Dr. Rudolf's Dream |
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| 7 |
Powers |
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| 8 |
Alba Tigareta Parfumata |
composed by Vittorio Mascheroni and Giuseppe Mendes |
| 9 |
The Girl in Room 6 |
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| 10 |
Dr. Rudolf's Suicide |
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| 11 |
Laura Reborn |
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| 12 |
Journey to India |
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| 13 |
Rupini's Cave |
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| 14 |
Malta |
composed by Osvaldo Golijov and Arturo Castro |
| 15 |
Veronica's Nightmare |
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| 16 |
Farewell |
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| 17 |
Love Lost: Veronica |
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| 18 |
Death of the Double |
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| 19 |
Noapte Buna Mimi |
composed by Ion Vasilescu |
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lyrics by Nicusor Emanoil Constantinescu and Nicolae Vladoianu |
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| 21 |
Last Walk to Café Select |
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| 22 |
The Third Rose |
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