^ " – Soundtrack / Yann Tiersen – Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain".^ " – Soundtrack / Yann Tiersen – Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" (in Dutch).
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* Sales figures based on certification alone. Year-end charts 2001 year-end chart performance for Amélie Chart (2001)Ģ002 year-end chart performance for Amélie Chart (2002)Ģ003 year-end chart performance for Amélie Chart (2003) Weekly chart performance for "Comptine d'un autre été : L'après-midi" Chart (2010–2013) Weekly charts 2001–2003 weekly chart performance for Amélie Chart (2001–2003)Ģ013 weekly chart performance for Amélie Chart (2013) The track later received English lyrics, and was released by The Divine Comedy as a b-side to the Regeneration single, "Perfect Lovesong." The English-language version also appeared on Tiersen's L'Absente. "Les Jours Tristes" was co-written with Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy. īesides the accordion and piano, the music features parts played with harpsichord, banjo, bass guitar, vibraphone, and even a bicycle wheel at the end of "La Dispute" (which plays over the opening titles in the motion picture).īefore discovering Tiersen, Jeunet wanted composer Michael Nyman to score the film. The soundtrack features both compositions from Tiersen's first three albums, as well as new items, variants of which can be found on his fourth album, L'Absente, which he was writing at the same time. Greatly impressed, he immediately bought Tiersen's entire catalogue and eventually commissioned him to compose pieces for the film. Later followed “Goodbye Lenin” and others.ĭutch pianist, pioneer and champion of Minimalism Jeroen van Veen recorded Tiersen’s most popular melodies, playing the piano in his inimitable way: focussed, serene and hypnotising.Ī worthy successor of Van Veen’s successful recordings for Brilliant Classics of piano music by Glass, Pärt, Yiruma and many others.Avant-garde, bal-musette, contemporary classicalĪmélie is the soundtrack to the 2001 French film Amélie.ĭirector Jean-Pierre Jeunet was introduced to the accordion- and piano-driven music of Yann Tiersen by his production assistant. His international breakthrough came with the music for the French blockbuster “Amélie”. His soulful and melancholic music finds its traces in folk music, French chansons, musette waltzes, street music, but also in the minimalism of Satie, Glass and Nyman. Recommending to anyone who enjoys minimalism’ (Fanfare).įrench composer Yann Tiersen (born 1970) is one of the most popular and successful film music writers of today. ‘The music needs to speak for itself, and that it does, in this consistently enjoyable collection, I have no reservations in Tiersen’s music is often melancholy and reflective, but there are many lighter and more uptempo numbers on this wideranging survey of his output, which is sure to share the popular success of Jeroen van Veen’s many other albums for Brilliant Classics such as his Minimalist Piano Collections (BC8551 and BC9171) and compendiums of Ludovico Einaudi (BC94910 and BC9452), Simeon ten Holt (BC9434 and BC9453) and Jacob ter Veldhuis (BC94873).
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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 new album, such as the Satie‐tinged ‘Waltz of Amélie’, but 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 (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,Īnd became Platinum in the US and Germany. The maestro of Minimalist piano music has done it again, with an album of gentle melodies and soothing sounds from Yann
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