absolutely biwitching.......
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It's film music, but of a high-quality stand-alone kind. I think it's more a case of a film story being a creative catalyst to a serious composer, than it is of setting music to images. The music is performed by a small un-named orchestra (I'm guessing the musicians might be drawn from Sinfonietta Cracovia), who play with considerble sensitivity and finesse. The first seven tracks sound like a single piece of modern music. I don't have the reference points for modern classical music, but 'minimalist romantic' might be close. Tracks eight and nine are the first indications that you are listening to film music, when a short bossa nova piece is followed by a lilting guitar tune that has its roots in dusty American roads and includes a discretely plaintive steel guitar. A formal Haydn-like piece then takes you back to a reprise of the enchanted moods of the opening track. All in all, a lovely wistful piece that sounds entirely in keeping with the prospect of a modern angel in Kraków. The one downside is that it only lasts for thirty-four minutes. I could have done with the ones and zeros filling the whole surface of the disc. I've found myself putting it on 'repeat' to make up the shortfall.
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the rain is beating hard outside and i am in front of a warm open fire listening to this beautiful melodic cd. it captures you and soothes you and uplifts you all at once,very emotive and delicately written.
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I've really been enjoying Abel Korzeniowski's soundtrack pieces that accompany "An Angel in Cracow."  I say "pieces" because the individual "studies" that make up the whole borrow tastefully from the universe of "classical" (ie "non-pop/folk/jazz") musics from the late 18th C to the late 20th.  The pieces stand up very well on their own, and, indeed, seem much more "discrete" entities than the themes/motifs and variations that most soundtracks employ.  For a possible , more familiar reference point, Korzeniowki's music reminded all of us in our household of the Oscar winning soundtrack for "Finding Neverland" written later, by another Polish composer.  Anyway, I liked it a lot..the styles employed range from an Adams like minimalism to early classical..so there's something for just about anyone.
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