Zbigniew Preisner - Trois Couleurs: Bleu soundtrack

Decidedly one of my favourite composers for film scores and beyond, Zbigniew Preisner makes music that's majestic, poignant, often profoundly melancholic and breathtakingly beautiful.

Quoting wikipedia:
Preisner studied history and philosophy in Kraków. Never having received formal music lessons, he taught himself about music by listening and transcribing parts from records.

He is best known for his work on Kieślowski’s movies, most famously, Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc, Rouge; and after working with fellow Pole Agnieszka Holland on Kieślowski’s Three Colors: Blue, Preisner was hired by producer Francis Ford Coppola to write the score for The Secret Garden, directed by Holland.

Although Preisner is most closely associated with Kieślowski, he has written for other directors, winning a César in 1996 for his work on Jean Becker’s Elisa. He has won a number of other awards, including another César in 1994 for Three Colors: Red, and the Silver Bear from the 1997 Berlin Film Festival 1997 for The Island on Bird Street.

In 1998, Requiem for My Friend, Preisner’s first large scale work not written for film, premiered. It was originally intended as a narrative work to be written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz and directed by Kieślowski, but after Kieślowski’s death, it instead became a sort of memorial to him.

Here I'd like to share the soundtrack to Trois Couleurs: Bleu with you. If you have watched the film you'd likely remember the haunting symphony that played throughout the course of the narrative, that the bereft wife and secret composer Binoche plays hears in utmost intensity in her grief and anger; music that was like the sapphire blue glass windchimes she takes with her, containing and refracting such a vortex of emotions, but always in shades of deep, almost violent, blue.

You may download the soundtrack here. (But as usual, I strongly urge you to buy a copy if you like it like I do. Do enjoy.)