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Music from the Motion Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Box set] [Soundtrack]

~ Alexandre Desplat
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  • Audio CD (19 Jan 2009)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set, Soundtrack
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B001KZBKD0
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 35,604 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc 1:

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. PostcardsAlexandre Desplat 2:50£0.69
Listen  2. Mr. GateauAlexandre Desplat 3:02£0.69
Listen  3. Meeting DaisyAlexandre Desplat 1:21£0.69
Listen  4. A New LifeAlexandre Desplat 3:39£0.69
Listen  5. Love in MurmanskAlexandre Desplat 3:52£0.69
Listen  6. Meeting AgainAlexandre Desplat 2:41£0.69
Listen  7. Mr. ButtonAlexandre Desplat 2:04£0.69
Listen  8. "Little Man" OtiAlexandre Desplat 2:01£0.69
Listen  9. Alone at NightAlexandre Desplat 2:33£0.69
Listen10. It Was Nice to Have Met YouAlexandre Desplat 1:42£0.69
Listen11. Children's GamesAlexandre Desplat 4:10£0.69
Listen12. Submarine AttackAlexandre Desplat 2:40£0.69
Listen13. The HummingbirdAlexandre Desplat 2:34£0.69
Listen14. Sunrise on Lake PontchartrainAlexandre Desplat 3:33£0.69
Listen15. Daisy's Ballet CareerAlexandre Desplat 2:02£0.69
Listen16. The AccidentAlexandre Desplat 2:38£0.69
Listen17. Stay Out of My LifeAlexandre Desplat 1:44£0.69
Listen18. Nothing LastsAlexandre Desplat 2:54£0.69
Listen19. Some Things You Never ForgetAlexandre Desplat 1:36£0.69
Listen20. Growing YoungerAlexandre Desplat 2:14£0.69
Listen21. Dying AwayAlexandre Desplat 2:58£0.69
Listen22. Love ReturnsAlexandre Desplat 1:43£0.69
Listen23. Benjamin and DaisyAlexandre Desplat 2:31£0.69


Disc 2:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. "My name is Benjamin"Benjamin Button0:20£0.69
Listen  2. We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the CityDoc Paulin's Marching Band 2:56£0.69
Listen  3. "Some days I feel different"Queenie0:17£0.69
Listen  4. Ostrich WalkFrank Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke 3:05£0.69
Listen  5. "How old are you?"Benjamin Button & The Preacher0:12£0.69
Listen  6. That's How Rhythm Was BornThe Boswell Sisters 2:53£0.69
Listen  7. "When was the last time you had a woman?"Benjamin Button & Captain Mike0:13£0.69
Listen  8. Freight Train BluesBillie & DeDe Pierce 5:34£0.69
Listen  9. Basin Street BluesPreservation Hall Jazz Band 7:34Album Only
Listen10. "Thanksgiving, 1930"Benjamin Button0:07£0.69
Listen11. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra 3:35£0.69
Listen12. "What's your secret?"Benjamin Button & Captain Mike0:25£0.69
Listen13. Chanson Sur StalineChoeur De La Cathedrale De La Rue Daru, Paris XVII 3:06£0.79
Listen14. "A date which will live in infamy..."Franklin Delano Roosevelt0:16£0.69
Listen15. Arabeske for Piano in C Major, Op. 18Various Artists 3:18£0.79
Listen16. "Coming home"Benjamin Button0:12£0.69
Listen17. Out Of NowhereSidney Bechet 3:00£0.69
Listen18. Dear Old SouthlandLouis Armstrong 3:16£0.69
Listen19. "Defined by opportunities"Benjamin Button0:04£0.69
Listen20. SkokiaanPerez Prado And His Orchestra 2:38£0.69
Listen21. "Things were becoming different for me..."Benjamin Button0:16£0.69
Listen22. My PrayerThe Platters 2:45£0.79
Listen23. Bethena (A Concert Waltz)Randy Kerber 5:42£0.79


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Directed by David Fincher (‘Se7en’, ‘Fight Club’), The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is set to become one of the films of 2009 through its stellar cast, direction and, of course, music. The OST is composed, conducted and produced by Alexandre Desplat. Desplat has received Oscar and BAFTA nominations for The Queen alongside the International Film Music Critics Association’s 2007 Composer of the Year award and Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science-Fiction film for The Golden Compass.
This two disc set includes an entire CD devoted to Desplat’s score and a second to jazz, big band and ‘50s classics by Bix Beiderbecke, The Boswell Sisters, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Perez Prado, The Platters and others.
Desplat’s score creates a mesmerizing sonic mindscape that mirrors the unique emotional world of the movie’s lead character, Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt). Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, the movie explores the life of someone who is born an old man and ages backwards, his life progressing in retrograde motion from his birth at the close of World War I to his death at the start of the 21st century. During his backwards lifetime, he falls in love with an exquisite beauty named Daisy (Cate Blanchett). As deep and genuine as their love may be, Benjamin’s reverse biology makes a lasting union impossible.
Desplat’s haunting score creates a mystical, diaphanous haze through which we watch events in Button’s life transpire as if through a scrim of heart-tugging sadness.
The miracle of the movie is that Benjamin embraces life fully and continuously moves forward on his journey. In doing so, he transcends the limitations of his fate. As the empathic beauty of Desplat’s score draws us in deeper and deeper, it transforms the cinematic experience into a heartwarming affirmation of love.
The movie begins in New Orleans in the 21st century, just before Katrina hits. As it flashes back to the time of Benjamin’s birth, in New Orleans in 1918, and follows his retrograde journey through life, Desplat’s haunting music finds its counterpart in the forthright, authentic sounds of the jazz era in New Orleans, as performed by Bix Beiderbecke, The Boswell Sisters, Louis Armstron, and other greats. The contrast between the two sound worlds, as heard on the two separate CDs, speaks volumes.
The composer, who was born in Paris in 1961, has received worldwide recognition for creating an ideal musical language for cinema. Desplat received his first award nomination, the César Award of France (the French movie industry’s main equivalent to the Oscar), at the age of 36. Since then, he has been on a roll, receiving 13 other nominations and nine awards for nine different films.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Right on the Button..., 2 Feb 2009
By Ms. Rebekah Williams "Rebekah Williams" (Birmingham, England.) - See all my reviews
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Alexandre desplat seems to me to be one of the most underrated of contemporary movie composers working today.
Most people can name James Horner, Hans Zimmer, Michael Nyman etc., yet, Desplat has been producing some of the most consistently beautiful film scores of recent years - 'The Girl with a Pearl Earring' a case in point.
And here, with 'Benjamin Button' he has really excelled himself.
Simply put, this has to be some of the most beautiful music I have heard in a very long time.
'A New Life' is heart-tuggingly beautiful and 'It was nice to have met you' contains sprinkles of the kind of sparkly strings that wouldn't have seemed out of place on the Pinocchio soundtrack - just at the part where he realizes he has become a real boy! 'Sunrise on Lake Ponchartran' is even more gorgeous than its title.
Lush yet understated, quirky yet comforting - The soundtrack - like the F Scott Fitzgerald story it describes, is a proper little charmer. Destined to linger long in the ears, heart and memory.
If you feel in need of a little home-made romance this Valentine's day, Luxuriate in this, definitely the Aural equivalent of chocolate but without the calories... infact, it's the chocolate Button you can enjoy guilt-free over and over again!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Score, 28 Mar 2009
By GRAHAM SUTTON (Leicestershire , United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This film score is all what film music is about, as an independant listen and also it works for what it was written for, the movie!
It is excellently written in a John Barry style and full marks should go to Alexandre Desplat for giving us this wonderful score.
If you apprieciate good film music or even just music you will love this!
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