Rockin' Out Classical Style: Luigi Boccherini

So a few weeks ago Tim and I watched Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. I know, I know the movie is like a billion years old and I'm living so far under a rock it's not even funny. But the thing is that if you haven't seen Master and Commander you might not suspect that there are portions of the movie where people are separated from their limbs. I however, cheated and knew this before going in and maybe, perhaps almost for certain, this is why it took me three years to finally get the balls to watch the damn movie. I maybe suffer from limb separation anxiety. So long story short I over came my dread of free roaming limbs and bloody, weeping wounds and FINALLY sat through the glory that is Russell Crow's accent. (Being from the middle of nowhere, my people can listen to anyone with an accent babble on for days...this includes accents from far flung places like New Jersey, Alabama and Northern most Canada. It also means that we're willing to pretend that a clearly Australian accent is British.)

Anyway the point of all this isn't to tell you that movie is good, because lets face it, everyone except me and .0003% of the rest of the population already knows it was good...Oscar nomination good...and maybe Oscar winning good, but that I don't remember. The point of this is to tell you that the soundtrack has inspired in me a deep love. As far as soundtracks go, there are two categories: 1) Awesome in the context of the film and 2) Awesome on it's own. Type number two is extremely rare. Titanic (Yes, THAT Titanic) is a #1 kind of soundtrack it's very nice, but on it's own it just can't carry its clunky bulk, it needs the visual impact of the movie to make sense. Master and Commander is definitely a #2 kind of collection...mostly because it is comprised of actual pieces of classical music and those that are not pre-existing compositions are based on Luigi Boccherini's La Musica Notturna di Madrid, Op.30 No.6.

This is a beautiful piece of music. I cannot say that enough...it is a BEAUTIFUL piece of music and because of it's beauty I have fallen madly in love with it. Considering my love of classical music this isn't entirely surprising, but there is just something introspective yet lively and lovely about this particular piece that bumped me from mild crush territory to lusting with a disturbing obsession. Which maybe explains why I now have an Italian import CD that has not one drop of English anywhere on it in my CD collection.