Schindler's List (Soundtrack)

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This article deals with the soundtrack, composed mainly by John Williams , for the American feature film and Holocaust drama Schindler's List from 1993. The score has received several awards, including an Oscar . Much of the soundtrack appeared in two soundtrack releases in 1993 and 2018.

Soundtrack releases

The film music included on the soundtrack releases was composed by John Williams , with the exception of Oyf'n Pripetshik . The pieces it contains were recorded by the Boston Symphony Orchestra . Some of the pieces contain violin solos played by Itzhak Perlman . The composer of the title Oyf'n Pripetshik is Mark Warschawskyj . In the play night action a solo with a clarinet contain performer is Giora Feidman .

Original motion picture soundtrack

Schindler's List - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack by John Williams

Publication
(s)

Dec 16, 1993

Label (s) MCA Records

Format (s)

Audio CD , MC

Genre (s)

Film music

Title (number)

14th

running time

64:39

Studio (s)

Sony Pictures Studios , Symphony Hall

  1. Theme From Schindler's List 4:16
  2. Jewish Town (Krakow Ghetto - Winter '41) (4:40)
  3. Immolation (With Our Lives, We Give Life) (4:44)
  4. Remembrances (4:20)
  5. Schindler's Workforce (9:08)
  6. OYF'N Pripetshik and Night Action (2:56)
  7. I Could Have Done More (5:52)
  8. Auschwitz-Birkenau (3:41)
  9. Stolen Memories (4:20)
  10. Making The List (5:11)
  11. Give Me Your Names (4:55)
  12. Yeroushalaim Chel Zahav (2:17)
  13. Remembrances (with Itzhak Perlman) (5:16)
  14. Theme From Schindler's List (Reprise) (3:00)

25th Anniversary Edition Soundtrack

Schindler's List - 25th Anniversary Edition Soundtrack
Soundtrack by John Williams

Publication
(s)

November 27, 2018

Label (s) La-La Land Records

Format (s)

Audio CD

Genre (s)

Film music

Title (number)

20th

running time

93:29

production

Mike Matessino

Studio (s)

Sony Pictures Studios , Symphony Hall

This double-CD release was released in 2018 on the occasion of the film's re-release for its 25th anniversary and is limited to 4,000 copies. It consists of a CD with the 14 tracks from the first release in 1993 and a second CD with six other tracks that were previously unreleased outside of the film:

  1. Schindler's Workforce (Film Version) (12:09)
  2. Reflections (2:42)
  3. Theme For Recorder (2:15)
  4. Remembrances (Alternate) (4:31)
  5. The Perlman Family (1:15)
  6. I Could Have Done More (Film Version) (5:56)

More music

The following pieces of music can be heard in the film without appearing on the above soundtrack releases for the film:

title composer author Interpreter
Mamachi Oskar Schima Oskar Schima, Franz Xaver Kappus Mimi Thoma
Good night Mother Werner Bochmann Erwin Lehnow Wilhelm Strienz , FFB Orchestra
God Bless The Child Billie Holiday , Arthur Herzog, Jr. Billie Holiday
Szomorú Vasárnap Rezső Seress László Jávor (Hungarian), Sam M. Lewis (English)
My father was a hiker Friedrich Wilhelm Möller Florence Friedrich Sigismund Friedrich Wilhelm Möller
The timber auction Franz Meissner Otto pond Rudi Scherfling , Egon Kaiser Orchestra
La Capricieuse Opus 17 Edward Elgar Itzhak Perlman (violin), Sam Sanders (piano)
My lips, they kiss so hot Franz Lehár
To ostatnia niedziela Jerzy Petersburski Jacek Wójcicki
English Suite No. 2 in A minor Johann Sebastian Bach
A little flower blooms on the heather Herms Niel Herms Niel
Por una cabeza Carlos Gardel Alfredo Le Pera
Sus ojos se cerraron Carlos Gardel

reception

Sales figures

By June 1994, 154,000 units of the soundtrack had been sold.

criticism

At Allmusic , the music for the film received a rating of four out of five possible stars. The critic Evan Cater praised that it looked like Williams' attempt to create a magnum opus . Although Williams' music seems more melodic and thematically simpler than some of his famous film scores, it is as ambitious as a large symphonic composition. This applies above all to the violin solos by Itzhak Perlman , whose “masterful achievements” gave Williams 'compositions an authenticity and a down-to-earth character that counterbalanced Williams' preference for sentimentality and bombast. Williams, according to Cater, plunged into an emotional excess towards the end of the film and thus contributed to the increasing sentimentality in the last three quarters of an hour, which was also criticized in the film.

Awards

John Williams received several awards for the music for the film. For this he received an Oscar , a Grammy , a BMI Film & TV Award and a British Academy Film Award . He was also nominated for a Golden Globe .

Use in sports competitions

Several, including non-German, figure skaters moved to the film soundtrack in international competitions. Aljona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy, for example, used the music several times in 2009 at world and European championships in figure skating. In 1994 Katharina Witt was one of the first to dance to the music. Witt and in 2018 Nicole Schott were criticized in part by viewers for their lack of taste for this choice of music.

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , the French synchronized swimming team wanted to perform a performance on the soundtrack in order to set an example against racism and persecution. However, the French sports minister forbade the music to be used for the performance.

literature

  • Elias Berner: 'Remember me, but forget my fate' - The use of music in Schindler's List and In Darkness . In: Holocaust Studies, Special Edition Contemporary Holocaust Film , 2019, pp. 1–15
  • Claudia Bullerjahn: The Holocaust Soundtrack. Music in the service of a culture of remembrance , December 2013
  • Craig Lysy: SCHINDLER'S LIST - John Williams , in: Movie Music UK on February 18, 2019
  • Hongsi Yang: Appreciation on Theme Music of Schindler's List , in: Proceedings of 2016 5th International Conference on Social Science, Education and Humanities Research ( Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research series ), July 2016, ISBN 978-94-6252- 207-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schindler's List (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) , in: Discogs , accessed on April 12, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Eileen Fitzpatrick: MCA Lists 'Schindler' Special Box At $ 139.98 , in: Billboard, June 25, 1994, pp. 6 and 110
  3. ↑ a b c d e f This title contains violin solos by Itzhak Perlman .
  4. ↑ This title was composed by Mark Warschawskyj , interpreted by the Li-Ron Herzeliya Children's Choir in Tel-Aviv and performed by Ronit Shapira .
  5. ↑ This title contains clarinet solos by Giora Feidman .
  6. ↑ a b 'Schindler's List' 25th Anniversary Edition Soundtrack Announced , in: Film Music Reporter of Nov. 23, 2018, accessed on April 5, 2020
  7. ↑ Soundtracks , in: IMDb , accessed April 12, 2020
  8. ↑ English title: Mommy Buy Me A Pony
  9. ^ Title comes from the operetta Giuditta .
  10. ↑ AllMusic Review by Evan Cater , in: Allmusic , accessed April 12, 2020, original quote: "masterful performances"
  11. ↑ a b Christoph Cöln: German ice skater ecstatic and distraught on "Schindler's List" , in: Welt on Feb. 23, 2018, accessed on April 13, 2020
  12. ↑ Entry on Researchgate , accessed on April 12, 2020