Goodbye Lenin

Piano works from the soundtrack of the film "Goodbye Lenin" by Yann Tiersen. This film was a great success in Germany, as well as in several European countries. He won the Deutschen Filmpreis (German Film Prize) nine times: best film, Daniel Brühl best actor, Florian Lukas best supporting actor, best director, three technical prizes for editing, directing and music, as well as audience award for "German film of the year" and actor of the year for Daniel Brühl. …

French composer Yann Tiersen has written music for various instruments, including guitar, piano, synthetizer, violin, accordion, xylophone, and melodica. Some of his compositions have been used in film scoring, such as “Amélie”, whose soundtrack primarily features excerpts from his first three studio albums (“La Valse des monstres”, “Rue des cascades”, and “La Phare”). The present recording features Tiersen’s original solo piano works selected from his very first album, but also from “L’Absente”, “Les Retrouvailles,” and from his last work - “EUSA”. It also includes some piano works found in the soundtracks for “Amélie” and “Goodbye Lenin!”.

French composer Yann Tiersen (born 1970) is one of the most popular and successful film music writers of today. His soulful and melancholic music finds its traces in folk music, French chansons, musette waltzes, street music, but also in the minimalism of Satie, Glass and Nyman. His international breakthrough came with the music for the French blockbuster 'Amélie', later followed 'Goodbye Lenin' and others. Dutch pianist, pioneer and champion of Minimalism Jeroen van Veen has recorded Tiersen’s most popular melodies, playing the piano in his inimitable way: focussed, serene and hypnotising.