Original score from the 2013 biographical documentary feature film directed by Annie Sulzberger and Guy Natanael, starring David Breuer Weil, produced by Lucky Cape Pictures Limited.

THE STORY: A pure and meditative film based on unique and hard-won access that gets to the essence of the reclusive and fascinating subject. That subject is the extraordinary David Breuer Weil, who, like a modern day Gaugain, gave up his life as one of the world’s most successful art dealers to become an artist himself.

THE SCORE: “When first approaching the music for this film, I focused on David Breuer-Weil’s extraordinary and imaginary world of Nerac. This is a world which is made up of hundreds of artists, all of whom survive for only as long as his pencil lasts. His images made me think of medieval Indonesia and the Temple at Borobudor in Central Java. I began to assemble the musical instruments that, for me, represent that world; i.e gamelan, gongs, and angklungs, and wrote motifs and harmonies that brought this imaginary world into a form of reality without representing it literally. I chose the cor anglais to unite all these sounds, and to create a type of angular lyricism to represent the world of Nerac.” – Michael Csányi-Wills

THE COMPOSER: Composer Michael Csányi-Wills is a veteran of film music; between 1997 and 2012  he collaborated with Nigel Clarke on several scores, including Warner Brothers’ The Little Vampire, The Little Polar Bear and The Thief Lord. His solo credits include the documentary The King of Nerac, the Paavo Järvi documentary Maestro as well as the short film A Love Story in Milk for which he won the Best Score Award at the Movie Maverick Awards. Besides his career in film scoring, Michael was appointed composer in residence of the Welsh Sinfonia in 2013 and still regularly performs as a pianist.

MMS15020 THE KING OF NERAC (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Music Composed by MICHAEL CSÁNYI-WILLS
Release date (digital): June 9, 2015