The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Original Soundtrack)

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Various Artists / Alexandre Desplat
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Original Soundtrack)

[ Concord Records / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 16 December 2008

Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat's score to 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button creates a mesmerizing sonic mindscape that mirrors the unique emotional world of the movie's lead character, Benjamin Button.

Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat's score to 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button creates a mesmerizing sonic mindscape that mirrors the unique emotional world of the movie's lead character, Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt). Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', the score and movie explore the life of some one who is born an old man and ages backwards.

The movie begins in New Orleans in the 21st century, just before Katrina hits. As it flashes back to the time of Benjamin's birth, in New Orleans in 1918, and follows his retrograde journey through life, Desplat's haunting music finds its counterpart in the forthright, authentic sounds of the jazz era in New Orleans, as performed by Bix Beiderbecke, The Boswell Sisters, Louis Armstrong, and other greats. The contrast between the two sound worlds, as heard on the two separate CDs, speaks volumes.

Tracks:

Disc 1:
1. Postcards
2. Mr. Gateau
3. Meeting Daisy
4. A New Life
5. Love in Murmansk
6. Meeting Again
7. Mr. Button
8. "Little Man" Oti
9. Alone at Night
10. It Was Nice to Have Met You
11. Children's Games
12. Submarine Attack
13. The Hummingbird
14. Sunrise on Lake Pontchartrain
15. Daisy's Ballet Career
16. The Accident
17. Stay Out of My Life
18. Nothing Lasts
19. Some Things You Never Forget
20. Growing Younger
21. Dying Away
22. Love Returns
23. Benjamin and Daisy

Disc 2:
1. "My name is Benjamin"
2. We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City
3. "Some days I feel different"
4. Ostrich Walk
5. "How old are you?"
6. That's How Rhythm Was Born
7. "When was the last time you had a woman?"
8. Freight Train Blues
9. Basin Street Blues
10. "Thanksgiving, 1930"
11. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
12. "What's your secret?"
13. Chanson Sur Staline
14. "A date which will live in infamy..."
15. Arabeske for Piano in C Major Op. 18
16. "Coming home"
17. Out of Nowhere
18. Dear Old Southland
19. "Defined by opportunities"
20. Skokiaan
21. "Things were becoming different for me..."
22. My Prayer
23. Bethena (A Concert Waltz)