Andrei Tarkovsky

Music fans are revisiting the film scores of Eduard Artemiev, the Soviet composer who created the soundtracks for Andrei Tarkovsky's classics such as Solaris, Stalker and Mirror. Listeners describe the music as fabulously grim, praising its austere, electronic and choral textures that matched Tarkovsky's slow, meditative cinema. The composer's work continues to draw new audiences interested in atmospheric soundtrack listening.