TOTAL ECLIPSE - ORIGINAL SOUND

Track Listing
1. Total Eclipse, film score: Opening - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
2. Total Eclipse, film score: Trip to Paris - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
3. Total Eclipse, film score: Sea Quartet - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
4. Total Eclipse, film score: Arrival - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
5. Total Eclipse, film score: Café Andr - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
6. Total Eclipse, film score: Hashish Kiss - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
7. Total Eclipse, film score: Looking for Rimbaud - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
8. Total Eclipse, film score: Naked on the Roof - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
9. Total Eclipse, film score: Café Bobino - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
10. Total Eclipse, film score: Hashish 2 - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
11. Total Eclipse, film score: Dormeur du Val - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
12. Total Eclipse, film score: Coming Home - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
13. Total Eclipse, film score: Triangle - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
14. Total Eclipse, film score: Knife - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
15. Total Eclipse, film score: Sun - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
16. Total Eclipse, film score: Mathilde and Verlaine - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
17. Total Eclipse, film score: Two Trains - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
18. Total Eclipse, film score: Verlaine Escapes - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
19. Total Eclipse, film score: Rimbaud Wounded - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
20. Total Eclipse, film score: Memory - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
21. Total Eclipse, film score: Sentence - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
22. Total Eclipse, film score: Tear - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
23. Total Eclipse, film score: Cafe Bobino 2 - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
24. Total Eclipse, film score: Drunken Boat - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
25. Total Eclipse, film score: Abyssinian Plateau - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
26. Total Eclipse, film score: Death - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
27. Total Eclipse, film score: Eternity (Finale) - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)
28. Total Eclipse, film score: End Credits - (with Wilanow String Quartet/Warsaw Symphony)

Composer: Jan A.P. Kaczmarek.

Personnel: Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (recorder); Marta Boberska (soprano); Bogdan Liszka (oboe).

Audio Mixer: Rafael Paczkowski.

Liner Note Author: Arthur Rimbaud.

Recording information: Polish Radio Studio; Studio Buffo, Warsaw, Poland.

Photographer: Etienne George.

Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland's 1995 retelling of the relationship between poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine earned a much-deserved critical thrashing, but its score remains a thing of beauty. Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek's international breakthrough, Total Eclipse communicates the passion and invention of Rimbaud's poetry with a grace the film utterly lacks, employing the Warsaw Symphony and a small string quartet to evoke both the epic sweep and profound intimacy of his work. It's music that's raw and alive yet stunning in its adherence to classical traditions, buoyed by Kaczmarek's lyrical melodies and nuanced arrangements. ~ Jason Ankeny