Track Listing

1. English Patient
2. Retreat
3. Rupert Bear
4. What Else Do You Love?
5. Why Picton?
6. Cheek to Cheek - Fred Astaire
7. Kip's Lights
8. Hana's Curse
9. I'll Always Go Back to That Churc
10. Black Nights
11. Swoon, I'll Catch You
12. Am I K. In Your Book?
13. Let Me Come In
14. Wang Wang Blues - Benny Goodman
15. Convento Di Sant'anna
16. Herodotus
17. Muzsik�s-Szerelem, Szerelem - M�rta Sebesty�n
18. Ask Your Saint Who He's Killed
19. One O'Clock Jump - Benny Goodman
20. I'll Be Back
21. Let Me Tell You About Winds
22. Read Me to Sleep
23. Cave of Swimmers
24. Where or When
25. Aria - Julie Steinberg
26. Cheek to Cheek - Ella Fitzgerald
27. As Far as Florence
28. En Csak Azt Csod�lom - M�rta Sebesty�n

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38085 in Music
• Released on: 1996-11-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: Arabic, English, German, Italian
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

Absolutely stunning
Being the biggest soundtrack fanatic out there (I own over 200 soundtracks on CD/Tape/Vinyl), it is saying a lot that I consider "The English Patient" my absolute favorite. I purchased it the day after I saw the film, November 31, 1996. Ever since then, I have listened to the soundtrack every single day (give or take a few days for Christmas). I even play it at work at a bookstore where I work, where several customers each day would come up and ask what I was playing. not only is the music dream-like and poetic, it's hauntingly sad and quite depressing. Perfect for times you're pensive or need to write. Highly highly recommended.

Love, love...
I sat down (alone) in the cinema on Thanksgiving Day, 1996 to see this film, and from the very first moment, when the exotic (and familiar, for me) beginnings of "Szerelem, szerelem" ("Love, love") by Márta Sébestyen and Múzsikás played, I knew it would be a film I would love. Strange to base your opinion of a film on its opening moments of soundtrack, but having been a fan of Múzsikás for many years, I knew that any composer and compiler of a film soundtrack with the taste to select this Hungarian folk revival music was associated with something of subtlety and quality. I was not mistaken to put my faith in the hands of Gabriel Yared, whose scores have depth and convey a great deal about the film and its characters. Overall I have to say that this is one of the few PERFECT soundtracks I have ever heard. I listen to it again and again and never tire of it. You will too.

A mosaic of compositions full of passion.
When director and writer Anthony Mighella invited Gabriel Yared to score The English Patient he was looking for a soundtrack that could follow the mosaic composition of his film, whose characters have different geographic and cultural roots. And he found it! The result is probably the most wonderful soundtrack of all times, a soundtrack full of passion that combines Hungarian sounds, blues, jazz and classic musics, not to mention the unforgettable score by Gabriel Yared for The English Patient, proving that in music, just as in memory, love lives forever.