New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) Sony
Music is proud to announce the release of the original soundtrack of A Dangerous Method.
Howard Shore, a leading composer for movies, wrote the music for this dark and dramatic tale set in Zurich and Vienna on the eve of the First World War. A major part of the soundtrack is a recording of Richard Wagner's Siegfried Idyll by one of the most exciting pianists of our time, Lang Lang.
A Dangerous Method is the story of the relationship between two of the great pioneers of modern psychology, Carl Jung (played by Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), and of Jung's relationship with his brilliant and beautiful young patient Sabina Spielrein, a wonderful role for
Keira Knightley. Jung successfully treats Sabina, who with his encouragement becomes a psychiatrist herself, and through correspondence about her case Jung gains the friendship of Freud. When Jung breaks off his love affair with Sabina, she becomes Freud's patient, and differences on moral and intellectual issues open a gap between the two men.
Director David Cronenberg has chosen
Howard Shore to write the score for all but one of his films in the last 30 years. Shore has composed music for more than 80 films in all, also working with directors such as
Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Demme, with whom he collaborated on Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia. His outstanding success was the Lord of the Rings trilogy, for which he received three Academy Awards. Furthermore he is the winner of two Golden
Globe and four Grammy Awards for his film scores. He has also composed a number of concert works and an opera, The Fly, which premiered in Paris in 2008.
Shore's arrangement of Richard Wagner's Siegfried Idyll features on this soundtrack. Wagner composed the Idyll as a birthday present for his wife
Cosima after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It is a highly personal piece of music: its first performance, by a small ensemble in Wagner's home on Christmas Day 1870, woke
Cosima on that morning from her sleep. Later Wagner incorporated music from the Idyll into his opera Siegfried, the third of the four parts of The Ring.
The interpreter of the 20-minute Siegfried Idyll on this soundtrack, the pianist Lang Lang, is one of Sony Music's most renowned artists. His meteoric career has taken him around the world for performances in front of huge audiences and even into the White House. His dazzling technique is matched by serious thought about the pieces he plays.
A Dangerous Method with its many-layered story of sexual and intellectual exploration and its star cast has the potential for great box-office success. Shore's music and the superb playing of Lang Lang will delight listeners who have seen the movie and fans of piano music and Wagner alike.
Track Titles
1 Burghölzli
2 Miss Spielrein
3 Galvanometer
4 Carriage
5 He's Very Persuasive
6 Sabina
7 Otto Gross
8 A Boat with Red Sails
9 Siegfried
10 Freedom
11 End of the Affair
12 Letters
13 Confession
14 Risk My Authority
15 Vienna
16 Only One God
17 Something Unforgivable
18 Reflection
19 Siegfried Idyll
Performed by LANG LANG
