Original score from the 2006 biography drama feature film directed by Raúl Ruiz, starring John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres and Stephen Dillane.

THE STORY: A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

THE SCORE: Composer Jorge Arriagada, who is best known for his scores for Our Lady of the Assassins, Le Temps retrouvé and Comedy of Innocence, has written a very interesting and beautiful score for fellow Chilean director Raoul Ruiz’s biopic about famous Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, portrayed by John Malkovich. Evoking the music of 1920’s Vienna, the score features influences from classical composers such as Mahler, Schubert, Strauss, Berg and Schönberg, performed with great flair by the Sinfonia of London. The music “strives to convey the morale and aesthetics of 1900 to the audience in order to revive the spirit of this fundamental painter,” says the composer, who himself studied under a protegé of the Vienesse music school, Max Deutsch.

MMS08003 • KLIMT (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Music Composed by JORGE ARRIAGADA
Release date: February 12, 2008