Lakeshore Records has released A 
Gentleman In Moscow Original Paramount+ Series Soundtrack digitally today, May 10, featuring music by Emmy nominated composer Federico Jusid (Watership Down). The soaring orchestral score mixes traditional Russian music with strings, piano, oboe and harpsichord vividly bringing to life the series taking place just after the Russian Revolution. Starring Emmy-Award-winning Ewan McGregor the limited series is based on Amor Towles’ best-selling novel and is streaming now on Paramount+ with the Paramount+ with SHOWTIME ® plan.
An adaptation of Amor Towles’ internationally best-selling novel, A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW follows Count Alexander Rostov, played by McGregor who, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, finds that his gilded past has placed him on the wrong side of history. Spared immediate execution, he is banished by a Soviet tribunal to an attic room in the opulent hotel and threatened with death if he ever sets foot outside again. As the years pass and some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold outside the hotel’s doors, Rostov’s reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. As he builds a new life within the walls of the hotel, he discovers the true value of friendship, family and love.
Notes Jusid: “The score encompasses 30 years of Alexander Rostov’s life, his growth, his sorrows, the love, his losses and learnings during his vital journey confined inside the hotel.
“Although it has some hybrid and modern sonorities, the score is built, in a very classical fashion, around different leitmotivs that play the different characters: Alexander, Nina, Anna Urbanova, and Sofia, among others. Or represent different forces and more abstract themes such as love, friendship, politics, memories and the Regime…
“The score uses a combination of a classical orchestra with voices from an Orthodox choir and popular instruments from Russian folklore such as the balalaika, the cimbalom and the domra.”
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Track List
- Opening Titles
- A Last Walk On The Snow
- The Revolution Devours Its Children
- Time In Abundance
- Remembrance: Helena And The Leaves
- Remembrance: Salvame! (Mozart Homage)
- Release
- Rooms Behind Rooms
- Where Is Our Purpose Now?
- The Kitchen
- A Requiem For The Count
- Remembrance: The Greenhouse
- To War
- The Confederacy Of The Humbled
- The Chasing Game
- I’ll Cook For You
- A Death In The Snow
- Undercovered
- Sofia
- A Life Sentence
- Making Moves
- I’ve Been Involved For Thirty Years
- Escape
- Don’t Wait For Me
- No Tomorrow For Nina
- The Games We Play
- Nocturne For Anna
- Remembrance: The Ball
- Sofia’s Plea
- Remembrance: Summer In Idlehour
- The Nobility Of Love
- She’s Awake
- Adieu
ABOUT FEDERICO JUSID
Award winning and Emmy and BAFTA nominee composer who combines his activity for the concert hall, with the composition for film and tv.
Federico Jusid has Spanish citizenship and resides between Los Angeles and Madrid. Born in Buenos Aires, as the son of the renowned Argentine film director Juan José Jusid and actress Luisina Brando, Federico grew up among stages and film sets. Soon his passion for music and cinema led him to develop his career as a film music composer. Nowadays he has scored more than sixty feature films and thirty television series.
In the past year Federico developed the score for Hugo Blick’s The English (Amazon/BBC) an internationally acclaimed western drama starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer, for which he has been nominated to the IFMCA Award for Best Series’ Original Score and more recently for the 2023 BAFTA Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, under the category of Best Score: Fiction. In addition, Idiewire has selected Federico’s score for The English as the best score of the year 2022.
Among his original compositions for film, the score for the Award winning film The Secret In Their Eyes stands out. Federico was nominated for this score for the Goya Award by the Spanish Film Academy and achieved several international recognitions. Other notable feature film scores are Federico’s compositions for Neruda; Loving Pablo; Misconduct; Kidnap and 7 years for which he was the executive producer and has recently premiered the theatrical version in Spain, France, Greece, Argentina and Mexico. He recently composed the score for the films Cross the Line, El verano que vivimos, Life Itself, A Twelve Year Night and the animated miniseries Watership Down, an ambitious BBC project for Netflix on the classic British tale by Richard Adams and for which score Federico has been nominated to an Emmy Award.
His most recognized concert hall compositions include Tango Rhapsody, a piece for two pianos and symphony orchestra commissioned by the Tiempo-Lechner duo for its premiere at the Martha Argerich Project, which has been programmed worldwide, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the Hollywood Bowl season ; Kinetic Overture, premiered by the RTVE Orchestra at the Monumental Theatre of Madrid; The Silence of Their Names, commissioned by Victims of Terrorism Foundation and premiered at the National Music Auditorium of Madrid in March 2021; Bidaia, an accordion concerto dedicated to Iñaki Alberdi, premiered at The Colon Theatre by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires in 2022; Extimité, commissioned by the Spanish National Center of Music, premiered in 2018 at the Reina Sofía Art Center in Madrid; Enigmas, commissioned by the University of Alcalá de Henares in its V Centenary; Finding Sarasate, premiered at the Pablo Sarasate Centenary Tribute Concert; Danza de Aldeanos, commissioned by the National Center for Music Promotion (CNDM) to commemorate the bicentenary of Prado Museum; and La Librería del Ingenioso Hidalgo, commissioned for the celebrations of the IV Centenary of Don Quijote.
Throughout his career Federico has been distinguished with more than twenty international awards and nominations for both his concert works and his film scores, such as the First Prize of the “Beethoven Piano Competition”, First Prize at the “A. Williams Piano Competition”, and the First Prize of the “Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra”. Federico, is also three-time winner of the International Film Music Critics Awards (for Isabel and Carlos Emperor King); he’s got three Platinum Film Award nominations (for Neruda, Magallanes and A Twelve Year Night) and has been distinguished as “Composer of the Year 2016” by the Spanish Music Critics Association. His score for the film El verano que vivimos has been nominated to a Goya Award 2021 and he was also nominated by IFMCA as Composer of the Year 2020. The Secret in Their Eyes, Academy Award Winner for the best foreign film, achieved several international awards including the Havana Film Festival and the Argentinean Academy Awards, and the nomination from the Goya Awards from the Spanish Film Academy. He has been also nominated to an Emmy Award for his score for Watership Down and the BAFTA Award for the original music for The English.
As a pianist and conductor, Jusid has performed as a soloist in some of the most recognized halls in North America, Asia and Europe, including the Carnegie Weill Hall in New York; the Colon Theater in Buenos Aires; the Israel Philarmonic Orchestra House of Tel Aviv and the National Auditorium of Madrid. Since 2005 and for over ten years Federico has been resident composer and pianist of the Sonor Ensemble. During these years he has toured throughout Spain, Europe and Asia performing repertoire music as well as his own compositions. In addition, Jusid has performed with worldwide renowned leading orchestras such as the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, the Tenerife Symphonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires, the Paris Sinfonietta, the Galician Symphony Orchestra, the Spanish National Radio Orchestra, to name a few.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
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