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One of Patrick Doyle's Best!
By:
tinkerbelle
Date:
8 Aug 2009
Rating:
A personal remark at the beginning: The movie is one of my all-time-favourites and so is the music.
Patrick Doyle has composed a wonderful score that perfectly accompanies the witty Shakespeare-adaption of Kennegh Branagh and adds a lot to the liveliness of this comedy.
Track 1 introduces the main love theme, which sounds playful and charming. The purest version (sung by Patrick Doyle himself – as Twopop just told me) is Track 9, but you can hear it - in different orchestrations – through all the tracks concerning “the game of love”, especially the “gulling Benedict/Beatrice” tracks and it is repeated in form of a Chorus finale in Track 24.
The second main theme is heard best in Track 20, “Pardon Goddess of the night” – a chorale beautifully performed and truly enchanting. Track 15 starts with a fanfare-type version, but diversifies with the changing moods.
The “Overture” has both main themes in it – a wonderfully orchestrated fanfare and just thrilling! In my opinion one of Patrick Doyles best compositions.
Track 5 – the Masked ball” – is a lively dance tune – with renaissance reminiscences!
