New Soundtracks: LEONARDO DA VINCI (Caroline Shaw)

Composer:
Caroline Shaw

Total Time:
78:00

Label:
Nonesuch Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music

Release Date
October 25, 2024

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Product Description: The original score for Ken Burns’s new two-part documentary, LEONARDO da VINCI, with new compositions by Caroline Shaw, is available via Nonesuch Records on October 25, 2024; the documentary airs on November 18 and 19 at 8pm ET on PBS, PBS.org, and the PBS App. The album features performances by the composer’s longtime collaborators Attacca Quartet, Sō Percussion, and Roomful of Teeth as well as John Patitucci. Shaw wrote and recorded new music for LEONARDO da VINCI, marking the first time a Ken Burns film has featured an entirely original score.LEONARDO da VINCI is directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon. The film, which explores the life and work of the fifteenth century polymath Leonardo da Vinci, is Burns’s first non-American subject. It also marks a significant change in the team’s filmmaking style, which includes using split screens with images, video, and sound from different periods to further contextualize Leonardo’s art and scientific explorations. LEONARDO da VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and inspired future generations, and it finds in his soaring imagination and profound intellect the foundation for a conversation we are still having today: what is our relationship with nature and what does it mean to be human?“No single person can speak to our collective effort to understand the world and ourselves,” said Ken Burns. “But Leonardo had a unique genius for inquiry, aided by his extraordinary skills as an artist and scientist, that helps us better understand the natural world that we are part of and to appreciate more fully what it means to be alive and human.”“To help give depth and dimension to Leonardo’s inner life, and to carry our viewers on his personal journey, we enlisted the composer Caroline Shaw,” McMahon says in the album’s liner note. “Caroline’s existing body of music—joyful, daring, at times transcendent, and wholly unique—seemed to speak directly to Leonardo, a seeking soul who, 500 years after his death, can come across as strikingly modern. A fully original score, we believed, would add crucial connective tissue to areas where the record of Leonardo’s life is thin and it’s possible to briefly lose his trail. The music Caroline created is dynamic, enthralling and filled with wonder.“This soundtrack is a testament to the inspired efforts of Jennifer Dunnington, who marshaled it into being, the brilliant musicians and vocalists who, with the help of Alex Venguer, Neal Shaw, Colton Dodd and Tim Marchiafava, made it soar, and most of allCaroline Shaw, who might be Leonardo’s soulmate from across time,” he continues. “With her help, the Leonardo who emerges is no wizard shrouded in mystery, but a prideful, obsessive, at times lonely or flustered, occasionally ecstatic, and, in the end, content man who is in ways both modern and thoroughly of his time.”“As we set out to explore Leonardo’s life, we realized that while he was very much a man of his time, he was also interested in something more universal,” said Sarah Burns. “Leonardo was uniquely focused on finding connections throughout nature, something that strikes us as very modern today, but which of course has a long history.”

TRACK LIST:

1 . Intentions of the Mind Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (02:00)

2 . Ginevra de' Benci Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet & John Patitucci (03:44)

3 . Machine Drawings Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (01:37)

4 . Renaissance Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet & Sō Percussion (02:32)

5 . Atmosphere Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (02:23)

6 . Lady with an Ermine Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet & Sō Percussion (02:48)

7 . Pleasure and Pain Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (02:53)

8 . Il Paradiso Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci & Sō Percussion (01:09)

9 . Treatise on Painting Caroline Shaw & Roomful of Teeth (03:12)

10 . Optics, Light & Shadow Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet (03:57)

11 . Senso Comune Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci & Sō Percussion (02:18)

12 . Virgin of the Rocks Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (02:11)

13 . The Grandchild of Nature Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci & Sō Percussion (01:50)

14 . The Last Supper Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (04:17)

15 . Microcosm and Macrocosm Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci & Sō Percussion (02:42)

16 . The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (05:10)

17 . Notebooks Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet & John Patitucci (02:11)

18 . Blood Flow Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet & Sō Percussion (02:42)

19 . A Man Without Letters Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (02:20)

20 . La Pittura È Mentale Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet (02:57)

21 . Painter-Philosopher Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (01:40)

22 . Water Studies Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet & Sō Percussion (03:42)

23 . Body as Nature Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet & Sō Percussion (02:43)

24 . Guru of the Court Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (01:11)

25 . Cesare Borgia Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci & Sō Percussion (03:03)

26 . Flying Machines Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (06:05)

27 . Symbol of the Modern Idea Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci & Sō Percussion (01:47)

28 .The Mona Lisa Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet, John Patitucci, Sō Percussion & Roomful of Teeth (03:55)

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