Tiersen Piano Music (Pour Amelie) 180g 2LP (Vinyl)

180g Audiophile Vinyl Double LP!

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.

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 album, such as the Satie-tinged ‘Waltz of Amélie’. However 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.

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.

Features:
• 180g Audiophile Vinyl
• Double LP
• Made in the EU

Musicians:
Jeroen van Veen, piano

Selections:
Yann Tiersen (1970)
Piano Music
LP 1
Pour Amelie
Side A:
1. Comptine d'un autre ete: l'apres midi
2. Comptine d'ete No. 2
3. Comptine d'ete No. 3
4. Le vieux en veut encore
5. Toujours la
6. Comptine d'ete No. 1
7. La piece vide
8. Sur le fil
Side B:
1. La dispute
2. Les jours heureux
3. La chute
4. L'absente
5. Le retour
6. La valse d'Amelie

LP 2
Goodbye Lenin
Side C:
1. Le Moulin
2. Le matin
3. La plage
4. Les retrouvailles
5. La jetee
6. Tabarly
7. 8 mmm
8. Point Zero
Side D:
1. Summer 78
2. Coma
3. Childhood (1)
4. Mother
5. Watching Lara
6. First Rendez-Vous
7. I Saw Daddy Today
8. Mother Will Die
9. Father Is Late

Recorded November 4-5, 2014 at Van Veen Productions Studio 1, Culemborg, The Netherlands.