Soundtrack

This week's soundtrack CDs reviewed

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Concord★★★★★
Recently nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Score, Alexandre Desplat's new score to The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonis one of his best. The award winning fortysomething French composer with a growing international reputation ( The Girl With the Pearl Earring, Syriana, Birth, Hostage, The Painted Veil), seamlessly combines beautifully wrought melodies and delicately pulsing rhythms with lush orchestration and idiosyncratic instrumentation (ground bass, cimbalom, celeste) to create a dense and dynamic score of exquisite colours and textures. At once dramatic and lyrical, The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonbrims with bold musical ideas and strong dramatic themes, all the more striking for their emotional complexity and visceral force: Desplat scores perfectly. www.concordmusicgroup.com  JOCELYN CLARKE
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