TÁR

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More a concept album than a traditional musical facsimile of the film, the result is both creative and curious. Hildur Guðnadóttir’s music lives within and without the film, and it rubs shoulders... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 21st Oct 2022
Catalogue No: 4863431
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 63 minutes

Opus Klassik Awards

2023

Nominated - Composer of the Year

Guðnadóttir: For Petra

Work length1:11

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Hildur Guðnadóttir (vocals)
Recorded: 2021-08
Recording Venue: Berlin

Guðnadóttir: Mortar

Work length3:36

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Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello)
London Contemporary Orchestra
Recorded: 2022-07
Recording Venue: Vox-Ton Studio, Berlin

Introductory Words by Hildur Guðnadóttir

Work length0:19

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Hildur Guðnadóttir (speaker)
Recorded: 2022-06
Recording Venue: Vox-Ton Studio, Berlin

Guðnadóttir: For Petra

Work length8:18

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London Contemporary Orchestra
Robert Ames
Recorded: 2022-06
Recording Venue: Abbey Road, Studio 2, London

Hildur's Impressions

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Hildur Guðnadóttir (speaker)
Recorded: 2022-06
Recording Venue: Vox-Ton Studio, Berlin

Guðnadóttir: Tár

Work length14:54

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London Contemporary Orchestra (string quartet)
Recorded: 2021-08
Recording Venue: Vox-Ton Studio, Berlin

I. Largo

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II. Allegro

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III. Moderato

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Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor / Pt. 1

Work length3:19

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Cate Blanchett (speaker), Jan Wolf (speaker)
Dresdner Philharmoniker
Cate Blanchett
Recorded: 2021-09
Recording Venue: Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

I. Trauermarsch & II. Stürmisch bewegt

Track length3:19

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Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor / Pt. 3

Work length4:24

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Cate Blanchett (speaker)
Dresdner Philharmoniker
Cate Blanchett
Recorded: 2021-09
Recording Venue: Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden

IV. Adagietto

Track length4:24

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Introductory Words

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Rachel Smith (speaker), Natalie Murray Beale (speaker), Sophie Kauer (speaker)
Recorded: 2022-07
Recording Venue: Abbey Road, Studio 1, London

Excerpt, Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

Work length1:32

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Sophie Kauer (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Natalie Murray Beale
Recorded: 2022-07
Recording Venue: Abbey Road, Studio 1, London

IV. Allegro

Track length1:32

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Control Room Talk

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Rachel Smith (speaker), Natalie Murray Beale (speaker), Sophie Kauer (speaker), Todd Field (speaker)
Recorded: 2022-07
Recording Venue: Abbey Road, Studio 1, London

Excerpt, Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

Work length12:08

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Sophie Kauer (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Natalie Murray Beale
Recorded: 2022-07
Recording Venue: Abbey Road, Studio 1, London

IV. Allegro

Track length12:08

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Applause

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Rachel Smith (speaker), Natalie Murray Beale (speaker)
Recorded: 2022-07
Recording Venue: Abbey Road, Studio 1, London

Excerpt, Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

Work length3:44

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Sophie Kauer (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Natalie Murray Beale
Recorded: 2022-07
Recording Venue: Abbey Road, Studio 1, London

I. Adagio - Moderato

Track length3:44

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Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke: Here's That Rainy Day

Work length2:41

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Al Kay (trombone), Marcel Serierse (drums), Frits Landesbergen (vibraphone), Martijn van Iterson (guitar), Jeroen Vierdag (double bass)
New Trombone Collective
Martijn Sohier
Recorded: 2022-07
Recording Venue: Studio 3 at Muziekcentrum voor de Omroep, Hilversum

Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869

Work length1:27

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Cate Blanchett (piano), Zethphan Smith-Gneist (speaker), Cate Blanchett (speaker)
Recorded: 2021-10
Recording Venue: James-Simon-Galerie, Berlin

Prelude in C Major, BWV 846

Track length1:27

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Lydia Tár Field Recording

Work length0:30

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Cate Blanchett (speaker), Elisa Vargas Fernandez (speaker)
Recorded: 2022-05
Recording Venue: Sanken Nete

Elisa Vargas Fernandez: Cura Mente

Work length3:20

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Elisa Vargas Fernandez (vocals)
Recorded: 2022-05
Recording Venue: Sanken Nete

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Fresh after making its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Todd Field’s masterful drama about celebrity conductor TÁR will be accompanied by the official soundtrack.

Deutsche Grammophon has announced the release of Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture TÁR, a concept album featuring new music by Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir. The album is slated to drop digitally and on CD on October 21, 2022, following the film’s US release on October 7, and a vinyl edition slated for release on January 20, 2023.

The film stars two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett as the fictional Lydia Tár, a queer, globally renowned composer-conductor who oversees a German orchestra with an iron fist and finds herself embroiled in a #MeToo scandal.

Along with new music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, the concept album also features extracts of notable work from Mahler and Edward Elgar. The album complements the film by presenting fleshed-out compositions of the music worked on by the protagonist, implementing elements of Blanchett’s performance. Thus, the concept album delves into Tár’s rehearsals and the process of orchestral music-making.

Recently helming the Golden Globe, Grammy, and Academy Award-winning soundtrack for the 2019 film Joker and Emmy and Grammy-winning score for the HBO series Chernobyl, Hildur Guꝺnadóttir is recognized as “a supremely creative musician [and] an experimental producer to her bones” by Gramophone. Given Guꝺnadóttir’s work as a composer, including commissions for the British Film Institute and Royal Swedish Opera, her expertise matches Tár’s ambition.

The film is director Todd Field’s first movie in 16 years, following the critically acclaimed Little Children (2006) and his breakout In the Bedroom (2001).

Following its premiere in Venice, the film was met with rapturous reviews, with Variety writing, “As the first film he has made in 16 years, TÁR takes Todd Field to a new level. The movie is breathtaking — in its drama, its high-crafted innovation, its vision. It’s a ruthless but intimate tale of art, lust, obsession, and power.”

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December 2022

More a concept album than a traditional musical facsimile of the film, the result is both creative and curious. Hildur Guðnadóttir’s music lives within and without the film, and it rubs shoulders with snippets of Elgar and Mahler, interrupted by comments from the podium or control room. The experience is a little chaotic, but so is the process, and I think that’s the point.

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