The Whole Music Experience

Eleni Karaindrou Dust of Time (music from a film by Theo Angelopoulos) ECM New Series It seems like yesterday that I reviewed a collection of movie soundtrack music, Elegy of the Uprooting by Greek pianist/composer Eleni Karaindrou. But in actuality that was over two years ago. Karaindrou's delicate melancholic music goes beyond moving scenes forward and evoking the emotions of the film's characters. Karaindrou lends an expert hand at orchestration and musical arrangements that would leave French Impressionistic composers such as Ravel and Debussy green with envy. On the soundtrack music for Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos' Dust of Time , once again Karaindrou brings her musical awareness to each piece of music, from the lilting Waltz by the River with its combo of harp, violin and accordion to a Eastern European tinge throughout. Oboe, harp, French horn, accordion, piano, bassoon and other instruments pepper strains of orchestral strings, you might even ...