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There Will Be Blood [Soundtrack]

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Track Listing

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1Open Spaces4:00
2Future Markets2:44
3Prospectors Arrive4:40
4Eat Him By His Own Light3:36
5Henry Plainview4:14
6There Will Be Blood2:08
7Oil3:04
8Proven Lands4:49
9HW / Hope of New Fields2:29
10Stranded the Line2:20
11Prospector's Quartet2:56
12Bonus Download: HW / Hope of New Fields (Orchestral Version)2:32
13Bonus Download: Prospectors Quartet (Orchestral Version)2:57
14Bonus Download: De-Tuned Quartet4:32

News & Reviews

  • Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonny Greenwood Album to Be Performed Live in Concert at London's Barbican Hall

    The new album featuring works by Krzysztof Penderecki and those they inspired by Jonny Greenwood itself stemmed from a concert in Poland last fall that paired the composers' works. Tonight, the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra, which performed in the original concert and on the album, will perform the album's music at London's Barbican Hall. "Penderecki's Threnody still has the power to shock," says The Observer, "while Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver is already a modern classic." Consequence of Sound gives the new album four stars, calling it "one of the most ambitious albums of the year so far"; Greenwood's pieces "fit exquisitely next to the old master’s."

  • Krzysztof Penderecki, Jonny Greenwood Collaboration Out Now; "Carries a Powerful Impact," Says MusicOMH

    The new album featuring works by Krzysztof Penderecki paired with those they inspired by Jonny Greenwood is out now. MusicOMH says: "The four pieces here make an album that carries a powerful impact, as well as recognising the obvious talents of both composers in writing for the string orchestra." The music will be performed at London's Barbican Hall on March 22 by the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra, the artists on the recording, with Penderecki conducting his pieces and Marek Moś conducting Greenwood's, as on the album.

About this Album

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“Jonny Greenwood’s musical compositions almost become another character in the film. Think Bernard Herrmann and Taxi Driver, another portrait of a twisted soul, with sound effects and music to match.” —Variety

Nonesuch released guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood’s instrumental score to Oscar-nominated writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film There Will Be Blood on December 18, 2007. An adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!, the movie, which will be released by Paramount Vantage on December 26, stars Daniel Day-Lewis in what The Hollywood Reporter has called a “powerhouse performance.” The publication went on to say that Greenwood’s score is “captivating … greatly contributing to the sense that tectonic forces lie beneath the drama.” The music is performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra led by Robert Ziegler, the Emperor Quartet, Caroline Dale (cello), and Michael Dussek (piano).

Greenwood’s score is indicative of his current collaborations with the BBC Concert Orchestra as composer-in-residence, rather than his rock compositions. The score incorporates material from an earlier orchestral piece he created in that position, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, which will have its U.S. concert premiere in January when Greenwood appears as part of the Wordless Music Series in New York City.

“I saw some fairly long sections of the film, read the script, and just wrote loads of music. I tried to write to the scenery, and the story rather than specific ‘themes’ for characters. It’s not really the kind of narrative that would suit that. It was all about the underlying menace in the film, the greed, and that against the fucked-up, oppressive religious mood—and this kid in the middle of it all,” says Greenwood. “Only a couple of the parts were written for specific scenes—I was happier writing lots of music for the film/story, and having PTA [the film’s director, Paul Thomas Anderson] fit some of it to the film.” Nonesuch released the soundtrack for Anderson’s last film, Punch-Drunk Love—a smart pop score by composer/producer Jon Brion—in 2002. Anderson’s other previous films—all of which have been highly praised—include Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999). There Will Be Blood is a stark period piece filmed on arid Texas plains.

Credits

MUSICIANS
BBC Concert Orchestra, Robert Ziegler, conductor (1, 2, 5, 6, 8)
Martin Burgess, Clare Hayes, violin (3, 4)
Fiona Bonds, viola (3, 4)
Emperor Quartet (7, 9-11): Martin Burgess, Clare Hayes, violin; Fiona Bonds viola; William Schofield, cello

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Graeme Stewart
Music Supervisor: Linda Cohen
Music Editor: Paul Rabjohns
Recorded at Abbey Road by Simon Rhodes
Assistant Engineer: Lewis Jones
Additional score recorded, mixed, and engineered by Graeme Stewart at Hook End Manor

Album Artwork: Shin Katan
Photography: Robert Elswitt

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