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      a r t i s t : Krzysztof.Komeda
        t i t l e : Soundtracks.From.Roman.Polanski.Movies
          d a t e : 2000
        l a b e l : PowerBros
        g e n r e : Soundtrack
  r l s.  d a t e : Jul-17-2002
      t r a c k s : 10
    b i t r a t e : 192kbps
          s i z e : 63,6 MB

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     TWO MEN AND A WARDROBE

     This film is a short student piece by Roman Polanski. It was
     Krzysztof Komeda’s first film soundtrack, and it wasn’t an easy
     start, because the film had no dialogue and a lot of the
     effects had to be carried by the music. The film was premiered
     in 1958 at the International Short Film Festival in Brussels,
     and that year is officially given as the date of Two Men and a
     wardrobe, although both the film and the music actually date
     from 1957. As a leitmotif for the soundtrack music, Komeda used
     his first composition, which was premiered at the first Sopot
     Jazz Festival in 1956. This was a piece he called Lullaby. The
     other Lullaby he wrote was for the film Rosemary’s Baby, at the
     end of his life and work. Two lullabies - the first one his
     debut, the second one the end of a great but all-to-short
     career. The first won third prize in Brussels, the second was
     nominated for the Golden Globe Award.


     WHEN ANGELS FALL

     This is also a short, another student piece by Polanski, dating
     from 1959, and in colour. Among those appearing in the film are
     Barbara Kwiatkowska - at that time Polanski’s wife, a film
     actress later known throughout Europe as Barbara Lass - and
     Andrzej Kondratiuk, a friend of Polanski’s from the film
     academy, then a student cameraman and now a director. The film
     also includes short appearances by some of Polanski’s student
     friends, for two reasons, I suppose: it kept the production
     costs down, and apart from that, young people regarded making
     films as good fun. The role of the electricity meter-reader was
     played by Kuba Goldberg, who had previously played one of the
     Two Men And a Wardrobe. The communists forced him to leave
     Poland, his home, in 1969, and he later became a lecturer at
     the film academy in Copenhagen.


     KNIFE IN THE WATER

     Polanski’s first full-length feature film dates from 1962. The
     screenplay was by the director and Jerzy Skolimowski. For
     Polanski it was the first full-length film, but for Komeda it
     was the seventh, and his sixteenth film score in all, if you
     include all his other for short and medium-length films. Among
     the musicians on the recording is the Swedish tenor player
     Bernt Rosengren. Komeda was really taken with Rosengren’s
     talent, and invited him to take part in the session. Getting
     agreement for this in the communist Poland of the 1960s was
     something absolutely unprecedented, but thanks to Komeda’s
     stubbornness and the goodwill of the head of the KADR film
     studio, and after many attempts at persuasion in the offices of
     the Ministry of Art and Culture, the film authorities, and the
     management of the National Bank, I managed to arrange it.
     Because, of course, I was my husband’s manager and the producer
     of the recording, and it was one of my responsibilities to hire
     musicians and draw up contracts with them. The beautiful solo
     you can hear on this soundtrack is by that wonderful
     saxophonist.

     Zofia Komeda.
     
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      01-Knife In The Water 1                                   [01:06]
      02-Knife In The Water 2                                   [02:22]
      03-Knife In The Water 3                                   [02:33]
      04-Knife In The Water 4                                   [02:10]
      05-Knife In The Water 5                                   [02:37]
      06-Knife In The Water 6                                   [02:39]
      07-Knife In The Water 7                                   [01:09]
      08-Knife In The Water 8                                   [01:23]
      09-Two Men And A Wardrobe                                 [14:56]
      10-When Angels Fall                                       [15:18]
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                                                                 46:13 min
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