Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick

UK collection that is comprised of musical selections from Kubrick's central masterpieces, complimented by pieces which the director used as 'temp tracks' during the production and by all accounts with every intention of using these in the film, only to decide to replace them late on. In 2001, the scherzo from Felix Mendelssohn's 'Midsummer Night's Dream' (used for scenes of weightlessness) and Vaughan Williams 'Antarctica Suite' (for the Stargate effects and scenes on the moon) were both used in preview showings of the film before being discarded. While on Eyes Wide Shut, Wagner's 'Lieder I'm Triebhaus' ('In the Greenhouse') from Wesendonck Lieder was a significant theme in the production for more than a year before being replaced. We have also assembled the complete vintage ballroom music from The Shining. The final movement from Berlioz's 'Symphonie Fantastique', with it's epic use of the chant from the Roman Catholic Requiem mass, the 'Dies Irae', and a Sibelius piece, 'Valse Triste'. Both were important to the evolution of the film. Finally, as a young man, Stanley Kubrick fell in love with Sergi Prokofiev's score for the Sergei Eisenstein's first sound film, Alexander Nevsky. He played it to death, and it would inspire him later in his own use of dramatic music. From the scintillating recording by Fritz Reiner with the Chicago SO, we include the movement, 'Battle On the Ice'.

Festen est un quartet Jazz fondé en 2008. A l’origine de cette fête de famille, on trouve deux frères : Maxime et Damien Fleau, rejoints très vite par Jean Kapsa et Oliver Degabriele. Puisant dans l’univers complexe et inquiétant du cinéma de Vinterberg, le groupe s’est inspiré de cette sobriété formelle, de ce style vif et brutal propre au cinéma danois des années 90. Festen tente ainsi de s’affranchir des structures et des normes au nom d’un discours brut, réaliste, presque nerveux. Du Jazz donc, mais qui aurait succombé aux âpres séductions du rock'n'roll, qui aurait assumé son adolescence pour la resservir dans des compositions toutes aussi originales qu'énergiques.