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From Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island's fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.

The soundtrack produced by Robbie Robertson, & executively produced by Martin Scorsese.

Customer Reviews
Customer rating is 5 of 5  The best thing about the movie...   2010-07-20
By J. Drayton (Brisbane QLD Australia)
... was the music. (And I liked the movie a lot)

I don't normally enjoy compliation soundtracks - I'm more interested in movie scores or hearing classical pieces in their original context.

What makes this special is:

1. the quality of the music chosen. Nearly every piece is outstanding: challenging in the way much "modern classical" can be, but not off-putting. Many reviews have focussed on the re-arrangement of "This Bitter Earth", and I can understand why: it's exquisite. But there's plenty more here to enjoy;

2. the fact that it has been "curated" by an outstanding musician, Robbie Robertson of The Band - one of THE great rock guitarists and writers. Robbie brings a musician's sense to his selections and the sequencing on disc, making the experience of playing these through an extremely moving one.

It doesn't matter if you have seen the movie or not - these discs are outstanding listening and open the door to a wide range of thrilling material.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  AhhhMAZING arrangement! This Bitter Earth   2010-07-18
By SK (Sacramento, CA United States)
Reviewing "This Bitter Earth" only here: I've listened to over a dozen arrangements of this song, and I can truly say - this is beyond reproach. This is permeating, it will penetrate all that was come to pass and surpass all that is yet to come. Magnificent - to say the least.
Customer rating is 4 of 5  Bits and Pieces of the Composers Curated by Robbie Robertson   2010-06-10
By Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
Movie Soundtrack recordings are both curious and frustrating. In the case of the soundtrack for the film SHUTTER ISLAND there is another mission: musical 'curator' Robbie Robertson (in conjunction with Director Martin Scorsese) have created a smorgasbord of musical excerpts form luminous composers that will serve (hopefully) as a sort of introduction to contemporary music for the general audience. Ingram Marshall ('his acoustic music frequently incorporates tape delay, and later, digital delay. Many of tape parts of his pieces include the composer's own keening falsetto and gambuh playing such as "Fog Tropes" and "Gradual Requiem") opens the mood of the film with 'Fog Tropes' and later is represented by portions his 'Alcatraz'. Robertson likes to confuse his audience by including works by famous composer's lesser known pieces such as the importance he places on the commentary and sound atmosphere of Mahler's 'Quartet in A minor for strings and piano'. And if we only are allowed miniscule portions of Penderecki's 'Symphony No. 3', Morton Feldman's 'Rothko Chapel 2', Lou Harrison's 'Suite for Symphonic Strings', and Ligeti's 'Lontano', then credit this pair of CDs for offering the sources of the recordings of every work on the discs as reference for the listener to purchase the complete works of the samples.

One other mention should be made and that is the enormously successful piece entitled 'This Bitter Earth' by Max Richter as performed by Dinah Washington. This final piece is delivered in its entirety as the background for the closing credits. If ever a soundtrack lived up to the film for which it was designed, this one does. It is a great introduction to some composers the casual music devotee may not have yet discovered. Grady Harp, June 10
Customer rating is 5 of 5  A remarkable achievement by Robbie Robertson   2010-04-02
By Jim Bruce (Dublin, Ireland)
One of the great joys of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was the extraordinary soundtrack. Not satisfied with Alex North's original score, Kubrick went with a selection of classical pieces, some familiar like Strauss's The Blue Danube and others less well-known such as Ligeti's Atmospheres. That soundtrack became a classic and Shutter Island is easily in the same league. Like 2001, the music for Shutter Island comes from a number of classical composers and none of the pieces used was written specially for the film. In my opinion, the Shutter Island soundtrack is superior to 2001 in that the music sounds like a coherent score, quite like Bernard Hermann's work for Hitchcock in places.

For anyone interested in contemporary classical music, some of the composers represented here will be familiar names, for instance, John Cage, Krzysztof Penderecki and Alfred Schnittke. Others, like Max Richter, were unknown to me. Richter's On The Nature Of Daylight is a haunting piece and features twice on the soundtrack, the second time in a memorable mash-up with Dinah Washington's This Bitter Earth. A real bonus is a complete performance at the end of CD 1 of Gustav Mahler's only chamber piece, his Piano Quartet in A minor written when he was only sixteen.

The music on this double CD was clearly chosen with great care and intelligence by Robbie Robertson. He has created a collection that will appeal on several levels. Those who have seen the film can acquire a musical memento of Martin Scorsese's extraordinary achievement. For anyone who would like to expand their horizons and hear some of the best music composed in the latter part of the 20th century, this is an excellent starting point. Or if you would simply like some superior mood music, then just programme out the two or three songs on the set and play the rest on repeat.

I can't praise these CDs highly enough.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Very much worth buying   2010-03-24
By Old Crank (NYC)
Didn't think much of the movie, but was struck by the music (and I mostly like music written before July 28, 1750). The CD opened up a world of music I was stunned by. Sometimes spare, sometimes lush, usually intelligent. Only cranky comment is that the CD packaging seems to have been designed by children. It's heavy on photos from the movie -- pages and pages of stills in the booklet -- but the back cover has neither composer names nor track times and the booklet has the composer's names in tiny print after the performer's names. The CD itself has no information at all.


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