Dutch pianist, pioneer and champion of Minimalism Jeroen van Veen recorded Tiersen's most popular melodies, playing the piano in his inimitable way: focussed, serene and hypnotising. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet was introduced to the accordion- and piano-driven music of Yann Tiersen by his production assistant. Later followed "Goodbey Lenin" and others. Amélie is the soundtrack to the 2001 French film Amélie. His international breakthrough came with the music for the French blockbuster "Amélie". With Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta.
His soulful and melancholic music finds its traces in folk music, French chansons, musette waltzes, street music, but also in the minimalism of Satie, Glass and Nyman. French composer Yann Tiersen (born 1970) is one of the most popular and successful film music writers of today.
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'The music needs to speak for itself, and that it does, in this consistently enjoyable collection, I have no reservations in recommending to anyone who enjoys minimalism' (Fanfare). 36 Amelie music tracks are available under a royalty-free license Emotional and dreamy (Loop) featuring mellow piano, sentimental music box, quiet celesta and. Tiersen's music is often melancholy and reflective, but there are many lighter and more uptempo numbers on this wide-ranging survey of his output, which is sure to share the popular success of Jeroen van Veen's many other albums for Brilliant Classics such as his Minimalist Piano Collections (85) and compendiums of Ludovico Einaudi (949), Simeon ten Holt (94) and Jacob ter Veldhuis (94873). This French language film follows two mediums who agree to investigate a haunted castle. Tiersen's music helped to make the movie a hit, capturing its bittersweet mix of humour and sadness, and many of the best-known pieces from the soundtrack are included on this new album, such as the Satie-tinged 'Waltz of Amélie', but there is much more recent music here which Tiersen wrote in the wake of the film's success, including extracts from his soundtracks to Goodbye Lenin (2003) and Tabarly (2008), which tells the tragic story of the French sailor Eric Tabarly, who won the Single-Handed Transatlantic Yacht Race twice before drowning in the Irish Sea. Last but not least on our list of the ten best French movies for learning French, is Chroniques dun Château Hanté, otherwise known as Chronicels of A Haunted Castle. The maestro of Minimalist piano music has done it again, with an album of gentle melodies and soothing sounds from Yann Tiersen (b.1970) a composer best known outside his native France for the soundtrack to the movie Amélie (2001): the soundtrack sold over 200,000 copies in his homeland, and became Platinum in the US and Germany.
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