ABKCO Records will release the official soundtrack album for Wes Anderson’s comedy The Phoenician Scheme. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water, The Queen, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The King’s Speech, Godzilla). Also included are classical pieces by Igor Stravinsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as tracks by Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, Gene Krupa & others. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, May 30 (visit Amazon to stream/download). A vinyl edition is scheduled to come out on July 11 and is now available for pre-order here. Check back on this page for the purchase links. Already out now as a digital single (from Sony Classical) is Stravinsky’s L’Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) (1910 Version). Listen to the piece, as well as Desplat’s first score track below and also click here to check out the project’s music team credits. Desplat’s score is also available as on separate “score only” digital album. The Phoenician Scheme is written and directed by Anderson and stars Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Bryan Cranston, Tom Hanks, Riz Ahmed, Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Hope Davis, Richard Ayoade, Rupert Friend and Benedict Cumberbatch. The movie, which tells the story of a family and a family business, premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and is being released in select theaters this coming weekend by Focus Features before expanding nationwide next Friday, June 6.
Here’s the album track list:
1. Airplane Crash #1 – Alexandre Desplat (3:54)
2. Apollon musagète: “Apotheosis” – Igor Stravinsky & RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra (3:47)
3. A.Z.K Land & Sea – Alexandre Desplat (0:36)
4. Palazzo Korda – Alexandre Desplat (4:12)
5. Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 IV Rondo (Ludwig van Beethoven) – Robert Corben (1:58)
6. Petrouchka, 1947 Version: “Tableau 1, The Shrovetide Fair” – Igor Stravinsky & Columbia Symphony Orchestra (5:10)
7. The Gap Explodes – Alexandre Desplat (1:31)
8. The Trans-Mountain Locomotive Tunnel – Alexandre Desplat (1:36)
9. Drum Boogie – Gene Krupa (3:10)
10. Mud Bug Fuasi – Abdul-Khaliq Sextet (1:22)
11. The Jungle Unit of the Intercontinental Radical Freedom Militia Corps – Alexandre Desplat (2:02)
12. Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Chorale) (Johann Sebastian Bach) – Karl Richter, Munich Bach Choir & Münchener Bach-Orchester (3:31)
13. Hach Baregel – Ahuva Tsadok & Nachum Nardi (2:31)
14. Heaven #5 (Dost Thou Not Fear God) – Alexandre Desplat (0:58)
15. A String of Pearls – Glenn Miller & His Orchestra (3:16)
16. IX. The Hut on Fowl’s Legs “Baba-Yaga” (Modest Mussorgsky, arranged by Maurice Ravel) – Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan (1:52)
17. L’Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) “Introduction”/ “Le Jardin enchanté de Kachtchei”/”Disparition du palais et des sortilèges de Kachtchei, animation des chevaliers pétrifiés, allégresse générale” – Igor Stravinsky & Columbia Symphony Orchestra (3:05)
