Silva Screen Records has announced the details of the second soundtrack album for the BBC/HBO series His Dark Materials. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s first season composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The LEGO Batman Movie, The Crown, Genius, Home, Terminator Genisys), performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conducted by Matt Dunkley. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 20 and will be available to stream/download here. A CD version is set to come out in February of next year. Check back on this page for the purchase links. The label has previously released the concept album The Musical Anthology of His Dark Materials featuring Balfe’s themes from the show.
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Expanded ‘Seven Worlds One Planet’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Silva Screen Records will release a new soundtrack album for the BBC Earth natural history series Seven Worlds One Planet. The Expanded Edition soundtrack features selections of the show’s music composed by Jacob Shea (Planet Earth II, Blue Planet II) for Bleeding Fingers Music who also wrote the project’s theme with Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Inception), including over an hour of previously unreleased music. The soundtrack will be released on January 17, 2020 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The original soundtrack for the series was released this past October.
Soundtrack Album for BBC’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ Released
Modus Recordings/RD Arts and Mammoth Screen have released a soundtrack album for the BBC mini-series The War of the Worlds. The album features selections of the original music from the 3-parter composed by Russ Davies. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio clips. The War of the Worlds is directed by Craig Viveiros, written by Peter Harness and stars Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, Rupert Graves, Nicholas Le Prevost, Harry Melling, Jonathan Aris and Robert Carlyle. The sci-fi drama is based on H.G. Wells’ novel of the same title and follows a couple as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion.
Soundtrack for BBC/Amazon Series ‘Fleabag’ to Be Released
Dubois Records will release a soundtrack EP for the BBC/Amazon original series Fleabag. The 5-track EP features music from the show’s second season composed by Isobel Waller-Bridge (Vanity Fair, Vita & Virginia, Black Mirror: Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too, The Split). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, November 26 and will be available to stream/download here. Fleabag is created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge who also stars in the series, alongside Sian Clifford, Olivia Colman, Bill Paterson, Brett Gelman, Hugh Skinner, Hugh Dennis, Ben Aldridge, Jamie Demetriou, Jenny Rainsford, Andrew Scott, Fiona Shaw and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Soundtrack Album for BBC’s ‘Gold Digger’ Released
WTW Music has released a soundtrack album for the BBC limited series Gold Digger. The album features the show’s original music composed by Stuart Earl (And Then There Were None, My Brother the Devil, Ordeal by Innocence, Rillington Place). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon Music, where you can also check out audio samples. Gold Digger is written and created by Marnie Dickens and stars Julia Ormond, Ben Barnes, Sebastian Armesto, Jemima Rooper, Archie Renaux, Alex Jennings, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Julia McKenzie. The 6-parter centers on a a woman falling in love with a much younger man and the affect it has on her already damaged family.
Soundtrack Album for HBO’s & BBC’s ‘His Dark Materials’ Announced
Silva Screen Records will release the official soundtrack albums for the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials. The Musical Anthology of His Dark Materials features the show’s original music composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout, The LEGO Batman Movie, Home, Terminator Genisys, Genius). The composer collaborated with singer KT Tunstall, drummer Chad Smith, cellist Tina Guo, post-modern composer-cellist Peter Gregson, violinist & dancer Lindsey Stirling, classical horn player Sarah Willis, composer & multi-instrumentalist Richard Harvey and Vanya Moneva’s Ethnic Bulgarian Choir on his score. The first of two soundtrack albums for the show’s first season will be released digitally on November 3, followed by CD and vinyl releases later. Visit Amazon to stream/download the album.
First Soundtrack Album for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to Be Released
Universal Music will release the first soundtrack album for the Peaky Blinders. The album features a selection of songs from the show by artists including The White Stripes, Radiohead, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Laura Marling, Jack White & others. Also included is the series’ main title song Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and tracks from the original score from all five seasons of the drama composed by Martin Phipps (Season 1), Paul Hartnoll (Season 2), Dickon Hinchliffe (Season 3), Antony Genn & Martin Slattery (Season 4) and Anna Calvi (Season 5). The soundtrack will be released on November 15, 2019 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
Anne Nikitin to Score BBC’s & Amazon’s ‘The Pale Horse’
Anne Nikitin (American Animals, Mrs. Wilson, Calibre, This Beautiful Fantastic) has been tapped to score the upcoming BBC and Amazon limited series The Pale Horse. The 2-parter is developed by Sarah Phelps (The ABC Murders, And Then There Were None) and stars Rufus Sewell, Kaya Scodelario, Bertie Carvel, Sean Pertwee, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Poppy Gilbert, Madeleine Bowyer, Ellen Robertson, Rita Tushingham, Sheila Atim and Kathy Kiera Clarke. The series is based on the novel of the same title by Agathan Christie and follows a man whose investigation into the mystery of a list of names found on a dead woman leads him to a English village, Much Deeping, the home of a trio of rumored witches.
Dan Jones Scoring BBC’s ‘World on Fire’
Dan Jones (On Chesil Beach, Shadow of the Empire, Any Human Heart, Lady Macbeth, The Miniaturist) has composed the original music for the new BBC One drama World on Fire. The limited series is written by Peter Bowker (The A Word, Capital) and stars Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, Jonah Hauer-King, Helen Hunt, Julia Brown, Zofia Wichłacz, Brian J. Smith, Parker Sawyers, Tomasz Kot, Bruno Alexander, Johannes Zeiler and Eugénie Derouand. The show follows the first year of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people drawn from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
Dustin O’Halloran & Volker Bertelmann Scoring BBC’s & FX’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
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.