Black Swan

Label: Sony Classical
Barcode: 886978043528
Release Year: 2010
Country: Europe
Product Type: CD (New)
Score or Soundtrack: Score 
Composer: Clint Mansell

The music for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010) is one of the most striking film scores of the 21st century, composed by Clint Mansell, best known for Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, and Moon. Mansell reimagined and deconstructed Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, twisting the ballet’s familiar themes into eerie, unsettling variations that mirror Nina Sayers’s (Natalie Portman) descent into obsession and madness.

The London Symphony Orchestra performed the score, blending lush classical passages with Mansell’s darker harmonic dissonances, much like Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho or Philip Glass’s Candyman. The soundtrack moves between fragility and intensity in tracks like “Nina’s Dream,” “Opposites Attract,” and “Perfection,” while Benjamin Millepied’s choreography is underscored by these haunting reinterpretations. The album, released by Nonesuch Records, stands in the same lineage as Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Sicario, Jonny Greenwood’s There Will Be Blood, and Max Richter’s The Leftovers, where classical influence collides with modern psychological scoring.

Track Listing

Nina's Dream
Clint Mansell

Mother Me
Clint Mansell

The New Season
Clint Mansell

A Room Of Her Own
Clint Mansell

A New Swan Queen
Clint Mansell

Lose Yourself
Clint Mansell

Cruel Mistress
Clint Mansell

Power, Seduction, Cries
Clint Mansell

The Double
Clint Mansell

Opposites Attract
Clint Mansell

Night Of Terror
Clint Mansell

Stumbled Beginnings...
Clint Mansell

It's My Time
Clint Mansell

A Swan Is Born
Clint Mansell

Perfection
Clint Mansell

A Swan Song (For Nina)
Clint Mansell

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