The Hours
The Hours is the original soundtrack album, on the Elektra/Nonesuch label, of the 2002 film The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore.
The original score was composed by Philip Glass. The music was performed by Michael Riesman (piano), the Lyric Quartet (Edmund Coxon and Rolf Wilson, violins; Nick Barr, viola; and David Daniels, cello), Chris Laurence (double bass), and an orchestra conducted by Nick Ingman.
Not all of the music in the film was composed specifically for it: earlier music by Glass, including the "Protest" theme from his opera Satyagraha, and the Franz Kafka inspired "Metamorphosis Two" from his album Solo Piano, was also featured and credited separately at the end of the film.
The album won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (lost to the score of the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers).
Movements
- An Unwelcome Friend
- Choosing Life
- Dead Things
- Escape!
- I’m Going to Make a Cake
- Morning Passages
- Something She Has to Do
- Tearing Herself Away
- The Hours
- The Kiss
- The Poet Acts
- Why Does Someone Have to Die?