Caldera Records proudly presents Zbigniew Preisner's score for Hector Babenco’s Foolish Heart.

Zbigniew Preisner wrote a deeply emotional, sensitive composition for small orchestra and solo instruments such as piano and saxophone. The former introduces the main theme, a brief phrase that is repeated throughout the score in various iterations and that is both wistful, melancholic, and mysterious. Rather than develop motifs for each character and thus follow a leitmotif method, the composer found a musical voice for Juan’s inner life as the young man is struggling with an impossible relationship and finding his true nature as an inspired artist.

There is an ominous tension running throughout the pensive compositions even as individual instruments, such as the saxophone, get their chance to stand out and shine. Although the soundtrack forms a delectable, harmonious and consistent entity, Preisner reassembled the different short cues to form a new work that stands on its own, outside the images.

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