In collaboration with Studiocanal and BMG, Music Box Records is proud to present a new album featuring two remarkable scores by Philippe Sarde: Music Box (1989) and The Matchmaker (Once I Was, 2010).

For Music Box, Costa-Gavras’s powerful political thriller starring Jessica Lange and Armin Mueller-Stahl, Philippe Sarde composed an austere and intense score. The music revolves around two central themes: Ann’s deeply melancholic theme and the music box theme — pure, almost childlike, like an ancient universal lullaby. Their variations intertwine throughout the film, heightening the atmosphere of tension and tragic revelation. This new edition benefits from a brand-new remastering.

For The Matchmaker by Avi Nesher, Philippe Sarde delivers a score of great delicacy for this nostalgic romantic drama. The film explores the silences of the past and the hidden wounds of love in 1960s Israel. The composer adopts an impressionistic musical language in which the orchestra unfolds like a symphonic poem. With few direct synchronizations to the image, it offers a resolutely melodic and atmospheric discourse, laced with subtle Yiddish inflections. This deeply humane score is available for the first time on CD.

These two works, distinct in their stylistic approaches, testify to Philippe Sarde’s sensitivity and mastery, equally capable of supporting an intense historical drama or an intimate, nostalgic chronicle.

Supervised by Philippe Sarde, the program has been assembled by Édouard Dubois and fully remastered by Christophe Hénault. The package includes a 12-page booklet featuring exclusive liner notes by writer Édouard Dubois discussing the films and the scores.

Remastered edition. Limited edition of 350 units.

12-page CD booklet with French and English liner notes by Édouard Dubois.

MUSIC BOX
01. Ann's Theme (2:32)
02. Blood Red Danube (1:43)
03. Federal Building (3:21)
04. Departure from Court (0:58)
05. Ann Studies Documents (2:12)
06. Journey to Budapest (4:29)
07. The Scar (1:11)
08. Ann and Georgina in Talbot's Library (2:27)
09. The Mirror (1:44)
10. Cemetery (2:20)
11. Candor (The Gendarmes) (3:48)
12. The Remembering of Ann's Mother (3:13)
13. Music Box (3:44)
14. The Newspaper (0:58)
15. Finale (1:04)
Time 36:16

THE MATCHMAKER
16. Summer of '68 (1:21)
17. He's Not a Boy Anymore (1:05)
18. Arik's First Tail (0:40)
19. Miss Clara (1:56)
20. A Detective Story (0:39)
21. Hidden Memories (0:59)
22. Spy Guy's Secret (1:04)
23. Can You Tell If This Love Is Good or Bad? (1:46)
24. The Religious Girl / Meir Meets Clara (2:29)
25. Dancing Lesson (1:09)
26. No Big Hero (1:06)
27. Meir's Flowers (0:45)
28. Meir's Timorousness / Religious Girl's Lover (1:46)
29. The Joint (0:58)
30. The Balcony (2:22)
31. A Groom for Sylvia (1:01)
32. Unwelcome Bouquet (1:31)
33. Arik's Mistake (1:00)
34. Tamara And Arik (2:37)
35. Meir's Denouncement (2:25)
36. Late Call (1:02)
37. Meir's Plot (2:52)
38. Meir Defeated (1:05)
39. Unhappy Ending (2:55)
40. The Notebook (1:45)
41. Yankele, The Matchmaker (End Credits) (3:37)
Time 42:33

Total Time 78:51