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i understand that the composer Alexandre Desplat is very talented and wants his original score to be heard. however, his original score barely made it into the film. the music everyone hears in the film and makes a connection with is by Smetana, Mahler, Gorecki, Berlioz, Respighi, Bach, Couperin, Brahms, Holst, John Tavener, Zbigniew Preisner, and a host of others. I would venture to guess that of the wall to wall music in the perhaps 140 minute film, only 5 minutes of it, if that, was composed by Alexandre Desplat. I don't know if this is being released out of some contractual necessity, or just as a marketing gimmick, but this is not the soundtrack. If they wanted to really make some money, they would put The Moldau, the two selections from Berlioz's Requiem, Preisner's Lacrimosa from the creation sequence, Respighi's Siciliana, the Couperin piano adaptation, and a few others (perhaps the Brahms and Mahler excerpts), and make a double album out of it. but this is just a travesty releasing this and pretending like it's the soundtrack, when it's not even close to it. bad business.