Điện Biên Phủ Bande Originale du Film (Dien Bien Phu Original Soundtrack) is based on the war docudrama by Pierre Schoendoerffer

Pierre Schoendoerffer

Pierre Schoendoerffer is a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician and since 2001 the President of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.-Family:...

 released in theaters on 1992.

The soundtrack was released by Polydor in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 (Audio-CD), Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 (Audio-CD) and Netherlands

Netherlands

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 (audiocassette, 513 289-4).

The music was composed by French artist Georges Delerue

Georges Delerue

Georges Delerue , was a French film composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize , Emmy Award , Genie Award , ACE Award and Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1979 for A...

 who also performs piano. Famous Japanese singer Marie Kobayashi performs vocals on the Communion track. The eighteen minutes plus clocking orchestral Fragments du Concerto de l'Adieu (Farewell Concerto Fragments) track is divided in ten parts.

French track listing

Điện Biên Phủ Bande Originale du Film (Polydor 513 289-2, 1992)

1. "Concerto de l'Adieu" – 9:50
2. "Fragments du Concerto de l'Adieu" – 18:16 (Fragment no 1~10)
3. "Communion" – 0:40 (vocals by Marie Kobayashi)
4. "Sortie de la Messe" – 0:54
5. "Nostalgie" – 1:28 (piano by Georges Delerue)
6. "Valse Souvenir" – 1:40 (piano by Georges Delerue)
7. "Les Copains" – 1:50 (piano by Georges Delerue)
8. "Normandie Bar" – 2:35 (piano by Georges Delerue)
9. "Confidence au Normandie" – 0:54 (piano by Georges Delerue)
10. "Les Adieux au Normandie" – 1:55 (piano by Georges Delerue)

Japanese track listing

「愛と戦火の大地」オリジナル・サウンドトラック・アルバム (Universal Music POCP 7103, 1995)

1. "別れの協奏曲" – 9:50
2. "断章(別れの協奏曲)" – 18:16 (フラグメントNo.1-10)
3. "一致" – 0:40 (vocals by Marie Kobayashi)
4. "ミサからの解放" – 0:54
5. "望郷" – 1:28 (piano by Georges Delerue)
6. "記憶のワルツ" – 1:40 (piano by Georges Delerue)
7. "恋人たち" – 1:50 (piano by Georges Delerue)
8. "ノルマンディー・バー" – 2:35 (piano by Georges Delerue)
9. "ノルマンディーの秘密" – 0:54 (piano by Georges Delerue)
10. "ノルマンディーの別れ" – 1:55 (piano by Georges Delerue)

Trivia

• In "Communion
  Communion (chant)
  The Communion is the Gregorian chant sung during the distribution of the Eucharist in the Roman Rite Catholic Mass. It is one of the antiphonal chants of the Proper of the Mass, and the final chant in the proper...
  
  ", Marie Kobayashi sings three times the line Seigneur prend pitié which is French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
   for "Lord
  God
  God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....
  
  have mercy".