VIA PRESS RELEASE | Sony Music announces the release of Little Women (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) with music by Academy Award®, Golden Globe®, and GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat.
Available for preorder now, the album will be available in digital, CD, and vinyl formats beginning Friday, December 13. Recorded in New York City under the leadership of Desplat, who conducted a chamber orchestra to perform his original compositions, the score serves as a sonic companion to the film’s coming-of-age narrative. Making its debut alongside album preorder is the title track from Desplat’s score—listen to “Little Women” now. Directed by Greta Gerwig, Sony Pictures’ Little Women will make its highly-anticipated theatrical debut on December 25.
Of the soundtrack, composer Alexandre Desplat says, “To capture the life of these four young girls on their path to adulthood, I have called in the four hands of two pianists. They are surrounded by a chamber orchestra, which keeps us in the intimate world of these ‘little women.’ We recorded the score in New York City with the most wonderful musicians whose musicality and virtuosity went beyond my expectations.”
“Working with him has been a dream,” adds Greta Gerwig of working with Desplat on the score. “From the first sketches he sent me to listening to him record the glorious score with an orchestra in New York, every step of the process has been a joy. He has taught me how to work with a composer: how to listen, how to give notes, how to wait for it to develop, how to step away, how to dive in. I am a better filmmaker for having worked with him, and I sincerely hope that it is not the last time.”
“For Little Women, Greta envisioned a musical without lyrics. From the beginning, Alexandre had to be the musical voice of the film,” says Spring Aspers, President of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, Music. “The resulting score is both dynamic and intimate making it the perfect complement to this exquisite retelling. I can’t wait for audiences to come together to experience this film.”
Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author’s alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig’s take, the beloved story of the March sisters—four young women each determined to live life on her own terms—is both timeless and timely. Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth March, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen, with Timothée Chalamet as their neighbor Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March.
TRACK LIST:
Little Women
Plumfield
The Beach
Christmas Morning
Dance On The Porch
Ice Skating
The Book
Father Comes Home
Christmas Breakfast
Amy
Friedrich Dances With Jo
Telegram
Theatre In The Attic
Laurie Kisses Amy
Friedrich
Laurie And Jo On The Hill
Young Love
Meg’s Dress
Carriage Ride
Laurie
The Letter
Snow In The Garden
Jo Writes
Amy, Fred, Meg And John
Dr March’s Daughters
It’s Romance
