Track Listing

1. With the Help of God, Shine
2. The Polonaise - Chopin
3. Did He Win?
4. Will You Teach Me?
5. Scales to America
6. Scenes from Childhood - - Schumann
7. These People Are a Disgrace
8. Raindrop Prelude - Chopin
9. Your Father Your Family
10. Tell Me a Story, Katharine
11. Back Stage
12. Punished for the Rest of Your Life
13. Moments of Genius
14. La Campalesson - Liszt
15. Letters to Katherine
16. 1st Movement Cadenza from the Rach. 3 - Rachmaninoff
17. Night Practice - Parcel from Katharine
18. As If There Was No Tomorrow
19. The Rach. 3 - Rachmaninoff
20. Complicato in Israel
21. Raindrop Reprise - Chopin
22. Bath to Daisy Beryl
23. Gloria - Vivaldi
24. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - Liszt
25. Prelude in C # Minor - Rachmaninoff
26. Flight of the Bumble Bee - Rimsky-Korsakov
27. Rach. 3 Reborn - Rachmaninoff
28. Goodnight Daddy
29. A Loud Bit of Ludwig's 9th - Beethoven
30. Sospiro - Liszt
31. What's the Matter, David - Appassionata
32. La Campanella - Liszt
33. Familiar Faces/Rach. 3 Encore
34. Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera - Vivaldi

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27120 in Music
• Released on: 1996-11-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 4.00" w x 6.00" l, .21 pounds
• Running time: 105 minutes

From Amazon.co.uk
A film about classical music and mental illness would normally be a box-office disaster. Yet such was the life-affirming brilliance of director Scott Hicks Shine, the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott's battle against mental breakdown and his self-expression through Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3, that the film found an adoring audience. Composer David Hirschfelder faced the extraordinarily difficult task of crafting a score of sufficient maturity to stand beside some of the greatest classical masterpieces ever written. Had he failed the film itself could not have worked, yet work it did, and triumphantly so. This soundtrack album features 34 tracks, 14 by Hirschfelder, the remainder bring his arrangements of the classical selections used in the film. Necessarily, the resulting album is somewhat diverse and even fragmented. Despite this, Hirschfelder has done a remarkable job of assembling the pieces into a musical tapestry, in which his own delicately understated compositions sit comfortably besides Vivaldi, Beethoven and, of course, Rachmaninov, with David Helfgott himself playing on many of the tracks. Shine made the actor Geoffrey Rush an overnight star, going on to roles in Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth--the latter eliciting another fine score from Hirschfelder. --Gary S. Dalkin