LA SONATA DEL SILENCIO Original Television Soundtrack Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by CESAR BENITO
Cesar Benito - Album
“La Sonata Del Silencio
(Original Television Soundtrack)”
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& Physical Distribution
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Plaza Mayor Company ltd
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La
Sonata del Silencio (The Sonata of Silence) is a story of passion, jealousy and
dreams with Post-war Spain as a backdrop. Marta Ribas lives in the
male-dominated society of the late 40s, full of conflict
and economic hardship. She had a happy married life with Antonio
but his health starts deteriorating, so to make ends meet Marta starts looking
for a job. Antonio doesn’t approve it as he feels it damages his reputation. He controls
her every step and Marta feels like a prisoner in her own home. But an
unexpected opportunity crosses her path that will allow her to secure her own
survival and that of her daughter, and find her place in the world.
The
piano is an important element on this story. Marta is a skillful pianist and
Flavio is a reputable piano instructor. Both of them had several scenes where
they played piano on screen. So my first task
was to compose two original piano pieces (El Piano de Marta, and Sonata
del Silencio), to give the actors enough time to learn the fingering before
the shooting date.
During
the scoring process I used thematic elements from those two piano pieces as
leitmotivs for Marta and Flavio since they are key characters in the story.
The
show was conceived without an opening titles sequence, so a main title theme
was not required. But I felt the need to have one predominant theme that would
convey the general sentiments of the story–anxiety, concern,
anguish, survival. This theme would be sort of the spine of the score all along
the series. We can hear it fully developed in Desde el Silencio, as well
as sections of it in other tracks of this album.
There
are other important leitmotivs in the score like the one I associated with the
character of Basilio as he progressively ruins his life because of his night
life and his relationship with hoodlums, smugglers and drug dealers (La Mala
Vida, Malas Compañías, Clandestinos and Hacia
la Perdición). I
basically created leitmotivs and distinctive sonic atmospheres for all the main
characters and most of the recurring situations.
I
hope the listener enjoys this soundtrack album as much as I did creating the
score for this fascinating television series.
Music composed, orchestrated and conduted by CÉSAR BENITO
* Music performed by MAD4STRINGS
* Solo Violin and Concertino LUIS ESTÉVEZ WINTERS
* Recorded at ESTUDIO UNO, Colmenar
Viejo, Madrid (Spain)
* Recording engineer LUIS DEL TORO
* Coordinator CARLOS MARTÍN
Piano and Programming CÉSAR BENITO
Mixing and Mastering engineer
JAVIER FERREIRO
Album prodduced by CÉSAR
BENITO and JAVIER FERREIRO
Cesar BENITO - "La Sonata Del Silencio" (Original Television Soundtrack) - Cd Digital & Cd Physical
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