The Pianist: Music from the Motion Picture is the original soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

, on the Sony Classical label, of the 2002

2002 in film

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 Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated film

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 The Pianist starring Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody is an American actor and film producer. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist . Winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 at age 29, he is the youngest actor to do so...

 (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor

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 for his role as "Władysław Szpilman" in this film), Thomas Kretschmann

Thomas Kretschmann

Thomas Kretschmann is a German actor best known for playing Leutnant Hans Von Witzland in the 1993 film Stalingrad, Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in The Pianist, Hermann Fegelein in Der Untergang, and Captain Englehorn in the 2005 remake of King Kong.-Early life:Kretschmann was born in Dessau, former...

 and Frank Finlay

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. The score was composed by Wojciech Kilar

Wojciech Kilar

Wojciech Kilar ; b. 17 July 1932 in Lwów, Poland) is a Polish classical and film music composer.-Biography:Wojciech Kilar is one of Poland’s esteemed composers. Born in 1932 in Lwów . His father was a gynecologist and his mother was a theater actress...

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The music was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music

BAFTA Award for Best Film Music

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 (but lost to the music of The Hours

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) and won the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film

César Award for Best Music Written for a Film

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Track listing

1. "Nocturne in C-sharp Minor (1830)
   Nocturne Op. Posth. in C-sharp minor (Chopin)
   Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp minor, Op. posth., Lento con gran espressione, Op. P 1, No. 16, KKIVa/16, is a solo-piano piece composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1830....
   
   " - Frederic Chopin
   Frédéric Chopin
   Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
   
   , Notes at IMSLP (4:12)
2. "Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1
   Nocturne Op. Posth. 72 (Chopin)
   Nocturne in E minor, Op. posth. 72, No. 1, was composed by Frédéric Chopin for solo piano in 1827. It was the 19th nocturne published, when published in 1855. The composition features an unbroken line of quaver triplets in the left hand set against a slow melody of minims, crotches, quaver duplets...
   
   " - Frederic Chopin (4:31)
3. "Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1
   Nocturnes Op. 48 (Chopin)
   The Nocturnes, Op. 48 are a set of two nocturnes written by Frédéric Chopin in 1841 and published the following year in 1842. They are the only two nocturnes in opus 48 and are dedicated to Mlle. Laure Duperré...
   
   " - Frederic Chopin (5:57)
4. "Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38" - Frederic Chopin (7:41)
5. "Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23" - Frederic Chopin (9:01)
6. "Waltz No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2" - Frederic Chopin (5:13)
7. "Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4" - Frederic Chopin (2:34)
8. "Andante spianato in G Major" - Frederic Chopin (4:28)
9. "Grande Polonaise brillante in E-flat major" - Frederic Chopin (9:31)
10. "Moving to the Ghetto Oct. 31, 1940" - Wojciech Kilar
    Wojciech Kilar
    Wojciech Kilar ; b. 17 July 1932 in Lwów, Poland) is a Polish classical and film music composer.-Biography:Wojciech Kilar is one of Poland’s esteemed composers. Born in 1932 in Lwów . His father was a gynecologist and his mother was a theater actress...
    
    (1:52)
11. "Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4" - Frederic Chopin (3:42)