The Grand Budapest Hotel (Original Soundtrack) CD
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Original Soundtrack), produced by Wes Anderson and long- time collaborator Randall Poster, features music from Academy Award®-nominated composer Alexandre Desplat and performances by the Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra. To help create the film’s musical character, the team chose a combination of Desplat’s original compositions, traditional Russian folk songs and an exquisite Vivaldi piece to set the scene for a chase through the snowy tundra in this gripping tale of intrigue.
“The Grand Budapest Hotel takes place 100 years ago in an invented country that might be described as part Czech, part Hungarian, part Polish, part Russian, part German — and a little bit 1930’s movie-studio in Culver City,” Wes Anderson commented. “The music, however, comes from Paris, where gifted French composer Alexandre Desplat incorporated a variety of regional sounds and musical forms to make what we call “Zubrowkian” music: something vaguely familiar — but, nevertheless, not quite like anything else.”
Poster remarked, “THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL soundtrack will take you into uncharted musical territory as Anderson and Desplat do a cultural mash up like no other. The tenth collection of music Wes and I have done together, this may be the most original yet. Balalaika players beware; here’s your new jam.”
Tracklisting:
1. "s’Rothe-Zäuerli" - Öse Schuppel
2. "The Alpine Sudetenwaltz"*
3. "Mr. Moustafa"*
4. "Overture: M. Gustave H”*
5. "A Prayer for Madame D"*
6. "The New Lobby Boy"*
7. "Concerto for Lute and Plucked Strings I. Moderato" - Siegfried Behrend & DZO Chamber Orchestra
8. "Daylight Express to Lutz"*
9. "Schloss Lutz Overture"*
10. "The Family Desgoffe und Taxis"*
11. "Last Will and Testament"*
12. "Up the Stairs/Down the Hall"*
13. "Night Train to Nebelsbad"*
14. "The Lutz Police Militia"*
15. "Check Point 19 Criminal Internment Camp Overture"*
16. "The Linden Tree" - Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra, Vitaly Gnutov
17. "J.G. Jopling, Private Inquiry Agent"*
18. "A Dash of Salt (Ludwig’s Theme)" *
19. "The Cold-Blooded Murder of Deputy Vilmos Kovacs"*
20. "Escape Concerto"*
21. "The War (Zero’s Theme)" *
22. "No Safe-House"*
23. "The Society of the Crossed Keys"*
24. "M. Ivan"*
25. "Lot 117"*
26. "Third Class Carriage*"27. "Canto at Gabelmeister’s Peak*"28. "A Troops Barracks (Requiem for the Grand Budapest)" *
29. "Cleared of All Charges"*
30. "The Mystical Union"*
31. "Kamarinskaya" - Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra, Vitaly Gnutov
32. "Traditional Arrangement" – Moonshine
*Music Composed by Alexandre Desplat