Since the film of ‘Sounds and Silence’ was first screened in 2009, ECM has been deluged with requests for a soundtrack album, so the label is making this available simultaneously. Where the film shows the process of music-making, ‘Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film’ includes the music in its completed/produced form. There are two exciting exceptions – tracks from Greek film composer Eleni Karaindrou and orchestra live in concert in Frankfurt with saxophonist Jan Garbarek and viola player Kim Kashkashian as guests – these pieces have not previously been available on CD.

‘Sounds and Silence: Music for the Film’ is effective both as “film music” and as a highly effective and desirable ECM anthology in its own right. It presents pieces by some of ECM’s best-loved artists, among them Arvo Pärt, Dino Saluzzi, Anouar Brahem, Marilyn Mazur, and Nik Bärtsch. There is music from Puccini’s Tosca gloriously transformed by Natale Arnoldi for Gianluigi Trovesi’s All’Opera: Profumo di violetta project, and by Giovanni G Kapsberger, performed by Norwegian lutenist Rolf Lislevand and his Nuove Musiches group. And Keith Jarrett plays Reading of Sacred Books by Georges I. Gurdjieff.

Artists

Keith Jarrett (piano), Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor), Rolf Lislevand (archlute, baroque guitar), Arianna Savall (voice), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Thor-Harald Johnsen (chitarra battente), Nik Bartsch’s Ronin, Anouar Brahem (oud), François Couturier (piano), Jean-Louis Matinier (accordion), Marilyn Mazur (percussion), Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon), Anja Lechner (cello), Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Eleni Karaindrou (piano), Camerata Orchestra, Athens, Alexandros Myrat (conductor) & Gianluigi Trovesi (alto saxophone)

Filarmonica Mousiké, Savino Acquaviva