Les Misérables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
| Les Misérables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by various artists | |
| Released | December 21, 2012 |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Length | 65:20 |
| Label | Universal Republic |
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Les Misérables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack is the film soundtrack for the Universal Pictures film Les Misérables, performed by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Samantha Barks, Aaron Tveit, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen and other artists. It was released on December 21, 2012. The music is written by Claude-Michel Schönberg; the lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer based on the French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Front Row, Tom Hooper the film's director, revealed that Claude-Michel Schönberg will be composing one new song and additional music. The director also expanded on the performers singing live on set, which he felt would eliminate the need to recapture "locked" performances and allow more creative freedom. More details of this were confirmed by Eddie Redmayne in an interview. He stated that the cast would sing to piano tracks (via earpiece) and that the orchestra would be added in post-production.
In February 2012, Cameron Mackintosh announced that the title of the newly created song for the film is "Suddenly" and that it "beautifully explains what happens when Valjean takes Cosette from the inn and looks after her."
The film's vocals were recorded live on set using live piano accompaniments played through earpieces as a guide, with the orchestral accompaniment recorded in post-production, rather than the traditional method where the film's musical soundtracks are usually pre-recorded and played back on set for actors to lip-sync to. Although this unique live recording method has been claimed as "a world's-first" by the creative team, several film musicals have utilized this method before, including the 1975 20th Century Fox production of At Long Last Love and most recently in the 1995 film of The Fantasticks and the 2007 film Across the Universe. On 27 August 2012, it was announced that recording sessions for Les Misérables would begin in London on 10 October and will feature a 70-piece orchestra. It was also announced that Claude-Michel Schönberg was working on writing additional music to underscore the film. On 9 September 2012, Universal Studios executives were granted a viewing of the rough cut of the film without the orchestra. The cut was greeted with "extreme excitement," and Russell Crowe tweeted that he received many excited emails.
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