`Cloud Atlas (2) The Moving Score

The score for `Cloud Atlas was composed by Tom Twyker, Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil, and their End Title piece found me reeling stunned from the three-hour film.  The film ends on a peaceful note, as the aged Zachry (Grampy) tells stories to his grandchildren one starry night in a planet far from Earth.  The aged Meronym (Grammy) calls them all into the house, and they walk in together after a kiss that marks centuries of life together.  

I am most intrigued by the Cloud Atlas Sextet that Robert Frobisher (Ben Wishaw) composes while serving as amanuensis to the famous composer Vyvyan Ars (Jim Broadbent).  I found the orchestral version of this piece on Google Play - Cloud Atlas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, but I love how this composition grew out of an intimate though tempestuous relationship between the two.

Then, from 1936 Cambridge to 1972 San Francisco, we find Luisa Rey (Halle Berry) looking for the Could Atlas Sextet in an old record shop.  Lo and behold the store clerk (Wishaw, once again) happens to be playing that very piece on the stereo.  He cannot seem to stop listening to it.  She finds it very beautiful.  Which of course it is.