Atonement Soundtrack

Guide Note

After collaborating on the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice, director Joe Wright, composer Dario Marianelli and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet teamed again for Wright's 2007 movie, Atonement.

The music earned Marianelli a "Best Original Score" Oscar and Golden Globe in 2008, as well as additional trophies from the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the International Film Music Critics Association.

Fast Facts

1. Genre: Soundtrack
2. Release Date: December 4, 2007
3. Label: Decca Records
4. Composer: Dario Marianelli
5. Conductor: Benjamin Wallfisch
6. Piano: Jean-Yves Thibaudet

1. "Briony"
2. "Robbie's Note"
3. "Two Figures By a Fountain"
4. "Cee, You, and Tea"
5. "With My Own Eyes"
6. "Farewell"
7. "Love Letters"
8. "The Half Killed"
9. "Rescue Me"
10. "Elegy For Dunkirk"
11. "Come Back"
12. "Denouncement"
13. "The Cottage On the Beach"
14. "Atonement"
15. "Clair de Lune"

• "The typewriter that figures heavily on the opening track, 'Briony,' may not have been invented yet then, but Marianelli's main theme is so similar to one of Beethoven's that a lawsuit would have merit if copyright had not lapsed long since." - Allmusic