Love & Friendship (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

About the Movie

Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, Love & Friendship focuses on the machinations of a beautiful widow, Lady Susan Vernon, who, while waiting for social chatter about a personal indiscretion to pass, takes up temporary residence at her in-laws estate. While there, the intelligent, flirtatious, and amusingly egotistical Lady Vernon is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica and herself too, naturally. She enlists the assistance of her old friend Alicia, but two particularly handsome suitors complicate her orchestrations. Love & Friendship is based on the Jane Austen novella Lady Susan and stars Academy Award® nominee Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don t Cry, Big Love, American Psycho), Kate Beckinsale (Laurel Canyon, Pearl Harbor, Underworld franchise) and Xavier Samuel (Twilight: Eclipse, Fury). The movie opens in theaters nationwide on May 13, 2016.



About the Music

The music on the Love & Friendship soundtrack was recorded in August and September 2015 under the direction of Mark Suozzo. Jane Austen s story of Lady Susan Vernon and her amours was written between 1793 and 1805, but music from an earlier period seemed to better reflect the spirit of the movie. Handel, Purcell, Boyce Fremart, Mozart, Vivaldi and other composers of the Pantheon create the musical accompaniment to Lady Susan s world. Composer Benjamin Esdraffo wrote key additional tracks, including the title music, and Suozzo conducted the Irish Film Orchestra to record all of the music for the soundtrack.

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