Composer Cezary Skubiszewski

Original Music Composed, Arranged and Produced by Cezary Skubiszewski Performed by the Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra and Ashton-Smith Singers

Orchestration/Conducting Daryl McKenzie Recorded by Robin Gray Recording Studio Allan Eaton Studios, Melbourne

Music in the film:

Barry Otto as Lilian’s older brother introduces a musical element by playing the tuba for the Salvation Army. However he only does it once to make the point to Lilian in her new apartment, and his band is never sighted: CD:

A CD of the film’s soundtrack was released: CD Columbia/Sony 483785 2 1995

Music composed, arranged and produced by Cezary Skubiszewski Performed by the Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ashton-Smith Singers Orchestrated and conducted by Daryl McKenzie Orchestral contractor: Ron Leyton Recorded and mixed at Allan Eaton Studios in Melbourne by Robin Gray, August 1995 Executive Producers: Marian Macgowan and Mike Wilcox Special thanks Lee Smith Soloists: Ruth Cracknell reading from The Tragedy of King Richard II, Act V, Scene V on track 1 John Barrett, flutes and whistles on tracks 4, 13, 14, 16 and 18. David Berlin, cello on tracks 3, 6 and 12 George Butrumlis, piano accordion on track 9 Joe Cindamo, piano on tracks 3 and 11 Mario Lattuada, guitar on tracks 5 and 18 Rudolf Osadnik, violin on tracks 5 and 18 Lisa Russell, vocals on tracks 4, 7 and 13 Scott Tinkler, trumpet on track 7 Mark Zorz, violin on track 1 Published by Warner Chappell Music Australia

The Tragedy Of King Richard II Act V, Scene V (1’36”) (Reading by Ruth Cracknell)

1. Leaving (2’03”) 2. Mother (1’50”) 3. The Tunnel (3’24”) 4. Lilian’s Theme (3’37”) 5. Lunch (2’41”) 6. Home (2’21”) 7. On The Beach (2’06”) 8. Are You Real? (3’17”) 9. The Landing (2’45”) 10. Romeo (1’33”) 11. Clever Man (2’22”) 12. Lord Kitchener (1’48”) 13. Hear Ye, Hear Ye (3’03”) 14. When A Giant Dies (1’13”) 15. Just Us Lilian (1’37”) 16. Everything Matters (2’29”) 17. Mundi Mundi (6’23”)

Composer:

Cezary Skubiszewski is too well-known a composer to dwell on at length here.

Skubiszewski was listed at move here, had a reasonably detailed wiki listing here, and his own eponymous website here, which contained information about his works, YouTube links, awards, recordings, etc, as well as this short CV (Skubiszewski won an APRA Music Award for Best Film Score in 2000 for his work Two Hands):

Cezary Skubiszewski is an Australian film and TV composer whose work has claimed numerous awards. Cezary’s first film score was for Lilian’s Story (1996), directed by fellow Pole Jerzy Domaradzki and staring Toni Collette. This was followed by (2000) and La Spagnola (2001), for which he collected Best Original Music awards from the Australian Film Institute. His other early works include Black & White (2002), The Brush Off (2004), The Book of Revelation and Blessed. His work on the 1999 film Two Hands saw Cezary collect the Best Film Score Award from APRA at the annual Screen Music awards. This was followed in later years by the mini-series After the Deluge (2003) starring Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths, and (2007) for which he also received Best Film Score Awards. He then went on to compose scores for The Book of Revelation (2006) and Blessed (2009). His latest work composing for Night (2008) Bran Nue Dae (2009), Red Dog (2011) and The Sapphires(2012) – which received critical acclaim at an international level, have seen him win awards from Inside Film and the Film Critics Circle of Australia. In last few years Cezary composed music for Serrangoon Road (2013 APRA AWARD), The Broken Shore (2014) (APRA AWARD) Parer’s War (2014), Jeziorak (2014 Polish Film Festival Best Music Award) Turkey Shoot (2014), Women H'e Undressed (2015) , Karbala (2015) Oddball (2015), Red Dog - True Blue (2016) and USA film Tiger (2016). In 2017 Cezary Received ACCTA Award for Best Music in a documentary for his score to Monsieur Mayonnaise. Cezary just finished scoring TV mini-series Picnic At Hanging Rock. In 1981 Cezary composed the symphony Home at Last and in 1991 created musical theatre multi-media production Soundescape which was performed at Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals. (2015) Cezary has also composed music for a number of adverts,including Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Football Finals, Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, Carlton Draught Big Ad campaign and the VB Bottle Symphony which became a worldwide hit. In 2008 1nd 2011 Cezary was the Musical Director of APRA/AGSC Screen Music Awards. Cezary is the Recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003 "For Service to Australian Society and Australian Film Production" and Film Circle of Australia (FCCA) 2010 Award "in recognition of contribution to Australian Cinema".

(Below: Cezary Skubiszewski)

In 2010 Albert published a collection of Skubiszewski’s soundtrack work, and track 9 was Mundi Mundi from Lilian’s Story.

There were some 18 tracks from a variety of films on the CD:

Skubiszewski’s discography can be checked at Discogs here - the site had this list of tracks for his Filmworks album: