The Promise. Gabriel Yared

Michael (Oscar Isaac), a young Armenian who dreams of studying medicine. When he travels to Constantinople to study, he meets Armenian Ana (Charlotte Le Bon) and falls in love with her, although she dates the American photographer Chris (Christian Bale), sent to Turkey to record the first genocide of the 20th century when the Turks exterminated the Armenian minority. A love triangle settles amidst the horrors of war.

To capture the two focuses of the film – the love story, and the terrible atrocities occurring around them – Gabriel Yared’s score treads a delicate balance between passionate romance and serious drama which occasionally adopts a tone of tragedy. His orchestral palette is large, making especially prominent use of strings and piano, and is often enhanced by solo performances of that most Armenian of instruments, the duduk , an ancient and iconic double-reed flute traditionally made of apricot wood. The score’s main theme is introduced in the opening cue, “Voyage to Constantinople,” a slow, elegant piece for strings and woodwinds that reminds a little of John Barry, and which features a lovely swell of emotion with soft choral accompaniment.

[JoseGarcia-svjm]

Lovely movie about such tragedy that happened to the Armenian people in the current Turkey where more than a million people were practically murdered by the Turkish empire back on those days and still Turkey don’t accept any guilt