Dustin O’Halloran & Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) are teaming up to score upcoming BBC and FX limited series A Christmas Carol. The 3-parter is written by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Peaky Blinders) based on Charles Dickens’ iconic ghost story and stars Guy Pearce as Ebenezer Scrooge, Andy Serkis as Ghost of Christmas Past, as well as Stephen Graham, Charlotte Riley, Joe Alwyn, Vinette Robinson, Jason Flemyng and Kayvan Novak. Nick Murphy (The Awakening) is directing all episodes. Knight is also executive producing the project with, Tom Hardy, Scott Free’s Ridley Scott & David W. Zucker (The Good Wife, The Man in the High Castle), Dean Baker & Kate Crowe (Taboo) and Mona Qureshi (Call the Midwife, Les Miserables) for the BBC. A Christmas Carol will premiere this holiday season in the UK on BBC and in the U.S. on FX.
O’Halloran & Bertelmann have previously co-scored 2016’s Lion, for which they received an Academy Award nomination, the 2017 original cut of The Current War and this year’s The Art of Racing in the Rain. They will also be collaborating on the music for the Netflix original movie The Old Guard.
The score sounds extremely similar to the 2011 movie Moneyball.
I swear to god been thinking where I heard this before. And I’m watching the end of moneyball now before I searched this and said that’s it but there has to another..yo I swear to god I just happened on money ball by accident but thanks for confirming..is there another score somewhere?didn’t know either was original. Thanks and Happy Newyears
I also hear hints of Hans Zimmers flight on Man of Steel. Sure theres another with a deeper base tone thow just cant remember the movie they used it.
Anyone know the carol/hymn sang by the congregation in the church? I’d love to get a copy.
I don’t know Charles. I too would love to at least know the name of the hymn. It does sound similar to a Christmas hymn sung on the recent Call the Midwife Holiday Special.
Suo gan a welsh lullaby
Was this it?
There’s an audio recording on the hymn’s wikipedia entry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suo_G%C3%A2n
This song was also sung in Empire of The Sun which I thought was a good movie.
I hear a little Trent Reznor in this score.
I do, too! Maybe more than a little.
Ben: You’re right. Here it is:
Poetic translation
Sleep my darling, on my bosom,
Harm will never come to you;
Mother’s arms enfold you safely,
Mother’s heart is ever true.
As you sleep there’s naught to scare you,
Naught to wake you from your rest;
Close those eyelids, little angel,
Sleep upon your mother’s breast.
Sleep, my darling, night is falling
Rest in slumber sound and deep;
I would know why you are smiling,
Smiling sweetly as you sleep!
Do you see the angels smiling
As they see your rosy rest,
So that you must smile an answer
As you slumber on my breast?
Don’t be frightened, it’s a leaflet
Tapping, tapping on the door;
Don’t be frightened, ’twas a wavelet
Sighing, sighing on the shore.
Slumber, slumber, naught can hurt you,
Nothing bring you harm or fright;
Slumber, darling, smiling sweetly
At those angels robed in white.