Vulture spoke with the film’s music supervisor and Republic Records exec Dana Sano, as well as Universal execs Mike Knobloch and Rachel Levy, about how they spent five years assembling the decade’s best soundtrack trilogy.
The rest of the soundtrack trilogy went on to match the first’s surprising standard of excellence, wrangling new hits from Taylor Swift, Halsey, and one of the film’s co-stars, Rita Ora. Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” nabbed a Golden Globe nom and then got revamped for the final film. The Weeknd’s “Earned It” striptease earned him and the film an Oscar nomination. The series’ first-ever trailer premiered a jazzy, seductive version of Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love,” rerecorded by the queen herself specifically for the film. Right out of the gate, these movies established a measure of dominance that Christian Grey could learn from. Newcomers to classical music will find this album to be user-friendly, though anyone who already owns a few greatest-hits compilations will be acquainted with most of the music.There’s so much about the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise that we’ll miss - the pommel horses, the impractical, lavish modes of transportation, Rita Ora’s five lines, everything Dakota Johnson says and does … but, mostly, we’ll miss the music. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Tallis Scholars, Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Riccardo Muti and the Philharmonia Orchestra, along with several vocalists and instrumentalists of note. The artists are among the most celebrated, including Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Excerpts from popular works by Bach, Villa-Lobos, Verdi, Rachmaninov, Fauré, Vaughan Williams, and Canteloube give the program a comfortable familiarity, along with such perennial favorites as Pachelbel's Canon in D, Chopin's Prelude in E minor, Delibes' Flower Duet, and Debussy's La fille aux cheveux de lin. The author has chosen 15 classical pieces that create a gentle, reflective mood, which many readers will appreciate as background music, much as James enjoyed listening to these selections while she wrote her book. James' erotic best-seller has produced its share of controversy, Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album is as safe and unprovocative as a companion CD to a book can be.
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