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Ahhhh ... "Brassed Off." I've long had that movie on one of my VHS compilations of things done by Ewan McGregor, but was surprised to find that I've never removed the shrink wrap from my DVD of it. Looking at the above scene from the film, I was struck by the beauty of it done with a horn instead of the guitar, for which Rodrigo composed it. Someone noted there the following:
A scene from the movie "Brassed Off" For all lovers of brass. The Grimethopre Colliery band play Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. The flugal soloist is Paul Hughes.
Which makes me want to seek that out. As for the "musicians" in the movie, never do I feel that they are anything BUT actors going through the motions, pretending to play rather than actually playing. I played the trumpet as a young child and have always regretted that I gave it up before starting middle school, then called junior high.
To zooba, I liked this as a movie -- I don't think I would have bought the DVD if I hadn't -- but haven't watched it in years. The scene I just watched makes me want to take it out of its plastic wrap and watch it.
Follow-Up: I was able to buy that lovely track as "En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor" by the Grimethopre Colliery Band, and there's a lot more of their music in the soundtrack for the film. But Rodrigo's "Aranjuez" is by far the best of 'em! As someone who has always loved that melody, it's a delightful surprise and I had forgotten that scene when I watched the movie several years ago.
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The ending is one of the most perfect combinations of music and plot, haunting, sad and beautiful.
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I just counted 19 tracks in the soundtrack, and the band has several recordings available to buy on CD and/or download. And I'm a huge fan of brass, with over a hundred tracks in each of my BRASS and TRUMPET playlists. And this recording of the "Aranjuez" music sounds WONDERFUL -- I couldn't stop playing it when I went for a walk! (And I explain elsewhere that I included it in my Trumpet playlist because it was close enough for me!)
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Well, whether it's a cornet or one of the others, if it sounds sort of like a trumpet and I like it, I'll put it in that playlist. I don't worry anymore about protocol in such things. For THESE ears, it's close enough!
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No mention of Trevor Jones' score? I thought it was one of his better efforts of the 90s, with a lovely main theme.
Jones also gets several mentions in the film's end credits (owing to his score and as well as his supervision of the brass band recordings) prompting the additional mention "Person with most credits: Trevor Jones"!
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Re: ...prompting the additional mention "Person with most credits: Trevor Jones"!
Is that true? Or are you just kidding?
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Mitch:
Re: "I enjoyed the film, despite it making me feel uncomfortable, and would like to see it again."
I agree (that I'd like to see it again), and may finally take my DVD of it out of its plastic wrap and watch the movie for the first time in over 10 years. Of course McGregor looks pretty much as he has ALWAYS looked -- he was 25 when he did "Brassed Off" and is now 42, and sometimes seems AGELESS! But, as "Amour's" Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant can tell us, sometimes age catches up with us! Wait -- delete that "sometimes"!!!
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