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William Makepeace Thackeray's satire Vanity Fair (first published in magazine installments, 1874-78) is a "Novel Without a Hero," as its subtitle proclaims, but it is not without a villain who has her reasons: Becky Sharp is a young woman lacking a fortune or a position in British society in the first half of the 19th century and is forced to make her way on her wits while happily unencumbered by scruples or morals. She is, in Thackeray's view, the ideal person in a world full of hypocrisy and materialism. In a contemporary world she is scarcely less so. Director Mira Nair might have attempted a modern version for her film adaptation, but she chose instead to go back to the original setting and cast Reese Witherspoon as Sharp. That compels composer Mychael Danna to write music in the style of the day, which means orchestral scores with classical and romantic antecedents, as well as chamber music. She sets poems by Lord Byron and Alfred, Lord Tennyson to tunes and has them sung by Sissel and Custer LaRue, respectively. She references Beethoven and Haydn, and even flirts anachronistically with Tchaikovsky when she gets to the battle of Waterloo. There isn't much suggestion of Thackeray's social criticism, at least in the music; the composer seems to have concentrated on matching the scenery and the costumes. Toward the end, there are a couple of Indian songs, "El Salaam," by Hakim, and "Gori Re," sung by Shankar Mahadevan and Richa Sharma, that come as a surprise and seem out of place.
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She Walks In Beauty (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sissel, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor - Lord George Gordon, Author
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Exchange (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Becky And Amelia Leave School (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
The Great Adventurer (Traditional)
Mychael Danna, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, Composer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor - Custer LaRue, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David McGuiness, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Becky Arrives At Queen's Crawley (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Andante (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
No Lights After 11 (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Adagio (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
I've Made Up My Mind (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Ride To London (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Becky And Rawdon Kiss (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Sir Pitt's Marriage Proposal (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
I Owe You Nothing (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Piano For Amelia / Announcement Of Battle (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Time To Quit Brussels (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Waterloo Battlefield (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Amelia Refuses Dobbin / The Move To Mayfair (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor - Alfred Lord Tennyson, Author - Custer LaRue, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Steyne The Pasha (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
El Salam (Amal El Taer)
Mychael Danna, Producer - Hakim, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Amal El Taer, ComposerLyricist - Hassan Esh Esh, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
The Virtue Betrayed (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Rawdon's End (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Dobbin Leaves Amelia (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Vanity's Conquerer (Mychael Danna)
Mychael Danna, Composer, Producer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra - Nicholas Dodd, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Gori Re (Shankar Ehsaan Loy)
Mychael Danna, Producer - Javed Akhtar, Author - Shankar Mahadevan, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Richa Sharma, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Composer - Joe Ayoub, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Album review
William Makepeace Thackeray's satire Vanity Fair (first published in magazine installments, 1874-78) is a "Novel Without a Hero," as its subtitle proclaims, but it is not without a villain who has her reasons: Becky Sharp is a young woman lacking a fortune or a position in British society in the first half of the 19th century and is forced to make her way on her wits while happily unencumbered by scruples or morals. She is, in Thackeray's view, the ideal person in a world full of hypocrisy and materialism. In a contemporary world she is scarcely less so. Director Mira Nair might have attempted a modern version for her film adaptation, but she chose instead to go back to the original setting and cast Reese Witherspoon as Sharp. That compels composer Mychael Danna to write music in the style of the day, which means orchestral scores with classical and romantic antecedents, as well as chamber music. She sets poems by Lord Byron and Alfred, Lord Tennyson to tunes and has them sung by Sissel and Custer LaRue, respectively. She references Beethoven and Haydn, and even flirts anachronistically with Tchaikovsky when she gets to the battle of Waterloo. There isn't much suggestion of Thackeray's social criticism, at least in the music; the composer seems to have concentrated on matching the scenery and the costumes. Toward the end, there are a couple of Indian songs, "El Salaam," by Hakim, and "Gori Re," sung by Shankar Mahadevan and Richa Sharma, that come as a surprise and seem out of place.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 25 track(s)
- Total length: 00:45:13
- Main artists: Mychael Danna
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Soundtracks
- Genre: Soundtracks Film Soundtracks
© 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc. ℗ 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
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