ComingSoon is pleased to present an exclusive track from A Gentleman In Moscow — Original Paramount+ Series soundtrack featuring music by Emmy-nominated composer Federico Jusid. Lakeshore Records will release the album digitally on May 10. Listen to “A Last Walk in the Snow” below.
“As Alexander Rostov makes his last walk, before being imprisoned in the confines of the Metropol hotel, many emotions come to play; anxiety, sadness, and angst. This piece tries to expand that turmoil of feelings, but always addressing Rostov’s tireless strength to keep his dignity,” said Federico.
“The piece is built around Count Alexander Rostov’s leitmotive, at the beginning played on top of a swirl of fast scales of the strings, then played by a nostalgic violin solo, and lastly when the Count is exposed to the eyes of others, played in a more phlegmatic way, by just a few instruments of the orchestra. As if he didn’t want his environment to witness his torment. [It] uses a combination of a classical orchestra with instruments from Russian folklore such as the balalaika, the cimbalom, and the domra.”
The soaring orchestral score mixes traditional Russian music with strings, piano, oboe, and harpsichord, vividly bringing to life the series taking place just after the Russian Revolution. Starring Emmy-Award-winning Ewan McGregor, the limited series is based on Amor Towles’ best-selling novel and is streaming now on Paramount+ with the Paramount+ with Showtime plan.
An adaptation of Amor Towles’ internationally best-selling novel, A Gentleman in Moscow follows Count Alexander Rostov, played by McGregor who, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, finds that his gilded past has placed him on the wrong side of history. Spared immediate execution, he is banished by a Soviet tribunal to an attic room in the opulent Hotel Metropol and threatened with death if he ever sets foot outside again. As the years pass and some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold outside the hotel’s doors, Rostov’s reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. As he builds a new life within the walls of the hotel, he discovers the true value of friendship, family, and love.
Track List
01. Opening Titles
02. A Last Walk On The Snow
03. The Revolution Devours Its Children
04. Time In Abundance
05. Remembrance: Helena And The Leaves
06. Remembrance: Salvame! (Mozart Homage)
07. Release
08. Rooms Behind Rooms
09. Where Is Our Purpose Now?
10. The Kitchen
11. A Requiem For The Count
12. Remembrance: The Greenhouse
13. To War
14. The Confederacy Of The Humbled
15. The Chasing Game
16. I’ll Cook For You
17. A Death In The Snow
18. Undercovered
19. Sofia
20. A Life Sentence
21. Making Moves
22. I’ve Been Involved For Thirty Years
23. Escape
24. Don’t Wait For Me
25. No Tomorrow For Nina
26. The Games We Play
27. Nocturne For Anna
28. Remembrance: The Ball
29. Sofia’s Plea
30. Remembrance: Summer In Idlehour
31. The Nobility Of Love
32. She’s Awake
33. Adieu
