I was wondering if anyone knows the title of the piano piece which recurs throughout this film?
make yer own
I also posted this question on the 'I Need To Know' and 'Classic Film' boards and got the answer I was looking for - so once again thanks to pinkfreud-1 and LMayberry-2.
make yer own
I've just recently received a PM asking about the music and what answer I got so I'll reproduce, in the main, my reply :
the answer I got for the music question was Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18, movement 1 by by Rachmaninov (or Rachmaninoff)
although I recently came across a site which lists a few composers
- http://home2.pacific.net.sg/~bchee/movies.html
go to left hand column and under By Movie Title click S, then scan down to no. 27
I'll take eight
Movie girl: Beautiful! I wondered too what the name of the lovely song was in the nightclub where Francesca danced with Peter, It plays when they first meet and later at their reunion. Thank you!
shareIf you mean the piece that Francesca is playing when Nicholas hits her hands with the cane----it's Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata---the slow movement.
shareThanks for your reply ... I'll check that particular piece out.
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If you mean the piece that Francesca is playing when Nicholas hits her hands with the cane----it's Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata---the slow movement.
That's a nice piece of music; I always thought so!
Like "Greensleeves", it's one of those classical pieces you instantly recognize.
"I promise you, before I die I'll surely come to your doorstep"
Movie girl - No, I mean the lovely piece in the restaurant when she meets Peter again.
shareyes i want to know to i absolutely loved it!
shareRachmaninoff has always been my favorite..and it doesn't disappoint here. Same tune was played in Brief Encounter..
"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything!"
I kept thinking of "Midnight Blue," a 1980's pop synthesizer hit by a British? artist, not the Melissa Manchester song, not the ELO song, but a one-hit wonder.
In the video, she appears in a full-length gown with cowled robe by moonlight and sings lyrics to the tune played in Seventh Veil.
There seem to be a lot of titles called "Midnight Blue" both in song and film. Might be Louise Tucker, but the name doesn't sound familiar. Thought her names stars with an M, but not to be confused with Melissa Manchester.
Continental debut concert - Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor
Second concert - Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto #2 In C Minor
During her sitting for portrait - Brahms: Waltz in A flat Major
Last scene before she comes down the staircase - Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 for Piano, Op. 13 "Pathétique" in C minor (Adagio cantabile)
Don't know what the Waltz to which she and Peter Gay danced at the nightclub.
Thanks for your reply and for going to all the trouble of going so into depth. That's excellent.
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thanks - do you know the piece she plays after Nicholas tells her to stop playing that "suburban shop girl trash"? It's the scene where he's returned back after Francesca has started her affair with Peter.
shareAnd does anybody know the piece that Nicholas & Francesca play as a duet 18 minutes in, when he first entices her to play the piano for him? tia
Edit: I've narrowed it down to a Mozart Sonata, but I don't yet know which one. And it's not the sonata for two pianos in D major. So near yet so far...
This is the second movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8, The Pathetique
shareThank you fvallan- but that's not the piece that I meant- that's the piece being played when Nicholas tries to hit Francesca's hands and then again at the end. The piece I referred to is the jaunty tune F&N play as a duet.
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