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 Posted:   Aug 17, 2015 - 3:11 PM   
 By:   Bond1965   (Member)

The trailer for Todd Haynes' upcoming film, CAROL, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara and scored by Carter Burwell is out. The credit block at the end states the soundtrack is coming from Varese Sarabande.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt-WC9xa7qs

James

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 17, 2015 - 3:35 PM   
 By:   jamesluckard   (Member)

Excellent news! One of my most anticipated films and scores of the year.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 3, 2015 - 11:57 AM   
 By:   Randy Watson   (Member)

Burwell has posted some samples on his website and it really sounds like a wonderful score!

http://www.carterburwell.com/projects/Carol.shtml

Burwell seems to have a great year. Just a shame about the Legend soundtrack...

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 3, 2015 - 11:57 AM   
 By:   Randy Watson   (Member)

DP

 
 Posted:   Sep 3, 2015 - 3:36 PM   
 By:   MKRUltra   (Member)

I've never been much of a fan of Burwell, and these samples don't change that. "Opening" sounds like watered down The Hours, the other samples aren't very memorable either. Pretty, but not much there.
It's no Far From Heaven, that's for sure.

 
 Posted:   Sep 3, 2015 - 8:40 PM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

If there's only 38 minutes of music, and 19 players (including Burwell), the album should likely have the entire score.

 
 Posted:   Oct 3, 2015 - 6:03 PM   
 By:   mastadge   (Member)

http://smile.amazon.com/Carol-Soundtrack/dp/B015Y1H5U2/

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 3, 2015 - 6:39 PM   
 By:   DS   (Member)

From what I've heard, the music being very woodwind-forward makes it sound like the direct continuation of what Haynes and Burwell were onto with "Mildred Pierce." Thematically the themes here sound like Elmer Bernstein (to my Bernstein-adoring ears) but the orchestration is certainly by the way of Michael Nyman, if that makes any sense. I trust Haynes' taste in music and I'm excited to see how Burwell's score works within the film.

 
 Posted:   Oct 4, 2015 - 1:45 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

It's no Far From Heaven, that's for sure.

He's operating under different parameters here.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 15, 2015 - 11:51 AM   
 By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member)

Saw the film at the London Film Festival today. Really excellent movie, well worth seeing. Nop notch performances from Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, who looks for all the world like a young Audrey Hepburn. Engrossing interesting narrative and a beautiful score from Carter Burwell. One sequence, where the score merges with the source music during a car driving sequence is just gorgeous.

Definite CD buy for me. However, I didn't notice any mention of a soundtrack release over the end credits so I hope this is still happening.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 15, 2015 - 2:06 PM   
 By:   jamesluckard   (Member)

Saw the film at the London Film Festival today. Really excellent movie, well worth seeing. Nop notch performances from Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, who looks for all the world like a young Audrey Hepburn. Engrossing interesting narrative and a beautiful score from Carter Burwell. One sequence, where the score merges with the source music during a car driving sequence is just gorgeous.

Definite CD buy for me. However, I didn't notice any mention of a soundtrack release over the end credits so I hope this is still happening.


I don't think CD releases are always listed in film credits, or even usually listed for that matter. I can't see any reason for it to be cancelled.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 16, 2015 - 1:07 AM   
 By:   Randy Watson   (Member)

Saw the film at the London Film Festival today. Really excellent movie, well worth seeing. Nop notch performances from Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, who looks for all the world like a young Audrey Hepburn. Engrossing interesting narrative and a beautiful score from Carter Burwell. One sequence, where the score merges with the source music during a car driving sequence is just gorgeous.

Definite CD buy for me. However, I didn't notice any mention of a soundtrack release over the end credits so I hope this is still happening.


https://www.facebook.com/varesesarabanderecords/photos/a.207302096128750.1073741832.190580891134204/443945265797764/?type=3&theater

It's still happening. Really looking forward to this one!

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 16, 2015 - 1:45 AM   
 By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member)

Thanks

CD due 20th November. smile

 
 Posted:   Oct 20, 2015 - 11:37 PM   
 By:   Lokutus   (Member)

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2015 - 6:53 AM   
 By:   Bond1965   (Member)

https://www.varesesarabande.com/products/carol

1. Opening - Composer: Carter Burwell
2. Taxi - Composer: Carter Burwell
3. To Carol’s - Composer: Carter Burwell
4. One Mint Julep - Performer: The Clovers
5. Datebook - Composer: Carter Burwell
6. Christmas Trees - Composer: Carter Burwell
7. Easy Living - Performer: Billie Holiday & Teddy Wilson
8. The Train - Composer: Carter Burwell
9. Packing - Composer: Carter Burwell
10. Drive Into Night - Composer: Carter Burwell
11. Kiss Of Fire - Performer: Georgina Gibbs
12. Waterloo - Composer: Carter Burwell
13. Lover - Composer: Carter Burwell
14. The Gun - Composer: Carter Burwell
15. Smoke Rings - Performer: Les Paul & Mary Ford
16. Over There - Composer: Carter Burwell
17. Visitation - Composer: Carter Burwell
18. To Court - Composer: Carter Burwell
19. The Letter - Composer: Carter Burwell
20. No Other Love - Performer: Jo Stafford
21. The Times - Composer: Carter Burwell
22. Reflections - Composer: Carter Burwell
23. Crossing - Composer: Carter Burwell
24. You Belong To Me - Performer: Helen Foster & The Rovers
25. The End - Composer: Carter Burwell

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2015 - 1:33 PM   
 By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member)

19 out of 25 tracks by Burwell. Nice one smile

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2015 - 4:19 PM   
 By:   drivingmissdaisy   (Member)

Thanks James for posting about Varese's releases and spreading the word on releases smile

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2015 - 9:58 AM   
 By:   Randy Watson   (Member)

It's on Spotify. Listening to it now and it's a wonderful score! Absolutely gorgeous, with a great melancholic mood. For me, one of the best scores of 2015

 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2015 - 10:06 AM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Carter Burwell does gorgeous melancholy better than almost anyone living!

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2015 - 11:42 AM   
 By:   Sean Nethery   (Member)

At first I was dismayed at how the score starts with (and occasionally reprises) a very typical Philip Glass introduction - not just minimalist, but absolutely drawn from the Glass playbook. But Burwell almost immediately takes the music in directions quite different from the kind of thing Glass does, so it does move away from imitation. Until the next time the sawing strings and alternating piano chords crank up like an acoustic hurdy gurdy.

I just wish a new score once in a while wouldn't sound so much like some other piece of music I know well. It's disheartening. (By the way, I never assume it's the composer's preference so much as what the filmmakers require.)

All this said, it is a strong score, and does sound like it will be particularly effective in the film.

 
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