Bayard Musique has released a soundtrack album for the French/Polish drama The Innocents (Agnus Dei). The album features the film’s original music composed by Grégoire Hetzel (Incendies, The Blue Room, The Tree). Also included is other music featured in the movie, such as Max Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight & more. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. The Innocents is directed by Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel, Adore) and stars Lou de Laâge Agata Kulesza, Agata Buzek, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig and Katarzyna Dabrowska. The movie is set in 1945 Poland and follows a young French doctor who is on a mission to help World War II survivors and becomes the only hope to several pregnant nuns who are unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancies in hiding. The drama premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and was released in French theaters earlier this week and was picked up by Music Box Films for domestic distribution.
Here’s the album track list:
1. L’abbaye – Grégoire Hetzel
2. Conditor alme siderum – Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess
3. Regem venturum Dominum – Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess
4. Csárdás – Alyson Pfister, Heinz Kilburger
5. Excita, quaesumus, Domine – Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess
6. Vox clamantis in deserto – Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess
7. Le retour – Grégoire Hetzel
8. Deus in adjutorium meum intende – Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess
9. Rorate caeli desuper – Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess
10. Petite messe solennelle: XI. Preludio religioso – Ensemble vocal Michel Piquemal, Michel Piquemal, Raymond Alessandrini, Emmanuel Mandrin, Françoise Pollet, Jacqueline Mayeur, Jean-Luc Viala
11. Salvete flores Martyrum – Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess
12. Nunc, Sancte, nobis Spiritus – Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess
13. Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 427: I. Adagio – Sviatoslav Richter
14. O vis aeternitatis – Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess
15. Vox clara ecce intonat – Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess
16. La ferme – Grégoire Hetzel
17. Veni Creator Spiritus – Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess
18. Les tâches quotidiennes – Grégoire Hetzel
19. On the Nature of Daylight – Max Richter Orchestra, Lorenz Dangel
