Mystic River Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD
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Like his film, Clint Eastwood's original score for Mystic River is an elegant, sometimes brooding, and often wistful meditation on nostalgia, loss, possibility and its absence, and ultimately, acceptance. Performed by pianist Brad Hatfield, the score's opening theme contains all ...MoreLike his film, Clint Eastwood's original score for Mystic River is an elegant, sometimes brooding, and often wistful meditation on nostalgia, loss, possibility and its absence, and ultimately, acceptance. Performed by pianist Brad Hatfield, the score's opening theme contains all the others. Voiced with an understated yet stylish piano, Eastwood's love of Bill Evans and Vince Guaraldi is obvious, but he uses space like Erroll Garner. Immediately upon its cessation, the dread-filled brooding of "Abduction" fills the speakers, where strings are almost swallowed by thin, swirling synth lines before emerging from the murk with a new picture of the theme, transformed, nostalgic, yearning for something previous. Eastwood's writing for this film is, much like his directorial achievement, single-pointed in its focus. Performed by the Boston Symphony and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, these ensembles are directed by Lennie Niehaus with orchestration by Patrick Hollenbeck. He knows exactly how to broach each scene, never overstating his intentions with bombast or drama when a simple trill will do, or a short, clipped series of keyboard chords that have just enough sustain on them to open onto what comes next cinematically. Musically that is all present, and one gets the sense of foreshadowing throughout. "Jimmy's Anguish" utilizes the theme once again; it is undercoated with the ambient orchestral sound of a coming thunder that never quite tears open the sky. It is one of the most moving musical sequences in the entire score. Likewise, "Orchestral Variation No. 1 on the Mu... view more