After fourteen years of restoration, the pioneering filmmaker’s long film is released to meet the public, set with a new original soundtrack. Drawn from 200 years of repertoire, it required 150 hours of recordings from Radio France!
It’s the soundtrack of all superlatives! Seven hours of music, 48 composers, 148 musical excerpts, drawn from 104 different works, whose composition spans nearly two hundred years. Classic pieces from Haydn to Penderecki, meticulously chosen and assembled. Hand-stitched on the images by the composer Simon Cloquet-Lafollye, to constitute a score in one go, 1500 pages and 33 kilos. Recorded by more than 250 musicians, over a total of 50 recording sessions of three hours each, spread over two and a half seasons. Two thousand takes, thirteen weeks of sound editing, a thousand hours of mixing…
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Michel Orier admits: “We’ve never done anything of this magnitude before!” At the suggestion of the Cinémathèque française, the director of music at Radio France decided to throw all the technical and musical forces of the Round House into the battle for the resurrection of Napoleon by Abel Gance at the time of the Bicentenary…
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