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SILVA SCREEN RECORDS PRESENTS
DOCTOR WHO SERIES 8 - ORIGINAL TV SOUNDTRACK
Murray Gold’s spirited soundtrack to the new Doctor Who series featuring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor.
“Ever since Doctor Who’s revival in 2005, Murray Gold’s incidental music has become as iconic as the theme tune (originally composed by Ron Grainer) he re-arranged. It takes sadness and provokes tears. It takes danger and quickens the pulse. It takes adventures through time and space with a mad man in a box and – somehow – makes it all seem even more weird and wonderful than it already is.” - Radio Times
It has been an exciting 10 years since the DOCTOR WHO brand was revitalized by the brilliant Russell T Davies. The 2005 revival saw the program and its music splendidly reinvented, the radiophonic textures replaced by a bold orchestral sound that compares to Hollywood’s best.
This 3-disc set will be the first soundtrack release of music from the twelfth DOCTOR WHO, Peter Capaldi, featuring the new Doctor’s theme A Good Man? (Twelve’s Theme). It also includes the music from the episode Last Christmas and an extensive 24-page booklet with notes from Murray Gold. The score is performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Murray Gold (computer instruments, guitars and synths) and conducted by Ben Foster and James Shearman. Missy’s Theme from episode 6, The Caretaker, is sung by Halia Meguid, whose ethereal voice was heard in the Series 6 and 7 scores.
Murray Gold’s phenomenal output as a composer began more then twenty years ago. He has since stacked up five BAFTA nominations (two for DOCTOR WHO) plus three Royal Television Society nominations and a win for QUEER AS FOLK.
The upcoming Worldwide Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular tour will feature music from Series 8. For more information on the tour click here: http://www.doctorwho.tv/events/doctor-who-symphonic-spectacular/
CD: SILCD1460
Digital album: SILED1460
Release date: 26th May 2015
TRACKLISTING:
DISC ONE
01 DOCTOR WHO THEME (Series 8)
02 A GOOD MAN? (TWELVE’S THEME)
03 – 10 DEEP BREATH
11 – 15 INTO THE DALEK
16 – 21 ROBOT OF SHERWOOD
22 – 24 LISTEN
DISC TWO
01 – 04 TIME HEIST
05 THE CARETAKER
06 – 08 KILL THE MOON
09 – 13 MUMMY ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
14 – 15 FLATLINE
16 – 18 IN THE FOREST OF THE NIGHT
19 – 30 DARK WATER / DEATH IN HEAVEN
DISC THREE
01 – 14 LAST CHRISTMAS
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For more information contact KrakowerPolingPR@gmail.com, or @KrakowerPoling on Twitter
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Played mine a couple of times now and it's definitely grown on me. I've found Murray's stuff much less thematic since mid Series 5, which is shame for me personally. But there's no denying the quality. It always has been as good as Hollywood's finest.
There are nods here, just occasionally, to Who music's Radiophonic past, and Twelve's Theme is extremely cool. Perhaps somehow more mature to match a more mature (looking) Doctor? But it's great in all it's guises.
And there's some cheeky echoing of Murray's mates scoring Sherlock in The Caretaker track...
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There are nods here, just occasionally, to Who music's Radiophonic past...
I thought so too! There were a few parts I had to go back to make sure I wasn't listening to a Tom Baker score.
...and Twelve's Theme is extremely cool. Perhaps somehow more mature to match a more mature (looking) Doctor? But it's great in all it's guises.
I love it. But I don't think I ever recognized it as a theme when watching the show. It's kind of Doctor Who by way of Brian Tyler.
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I did hear it, and loved it when it showed up, but as the themes aren't as clearly defined as they once were I wasn't 100% sure. Wish I knew exactly why it is the themes aren't as pronounced as they were up to half way through Matt Smith's first season. Literally up to and including the first disc of the Series 5 release, which as well as very definite music for Smith's Doctor and Amy, there is an incredibly amazing score for Vampires of Venice.
Even the worst (my opinion of course) episodes of all new Who - Beast Below and Victory of the Daleks have got great music. Those tellytubbies came out of that steaming kettle with the greatest fanfare and they weren't remotely worthy!
If some people's accusation of generic was ever true, it's since that series where it's happened and no way before.
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Yep. There have been rumours on at least one site that there COULD be a cd release for both Series 9 and 10. Long overdue. Heaven Sent is an episode that is virtually ALL musically driven sound-wise.. This is btw, RUMOUR.
But it is also said that Gold will be gone after the Christmas Special. But then so will quite few older fans. The gender change and all..
With or without the above, maybe it IS time for change musically. Personally I thought Murray was a perfect fit for the first five years, with Russell T Davies as showrunner. He knew what he wanted from 'his' composer. I reckon Steven Moffat didn't have that much interest in the music and left Gold to get on with knowing he could trust him to deliver. MY only problem with this is that without direction from the feller running the creative side of things, in this particular area, we got less and less thematic wonders than we did for the earlier part of the new era run. Hence, after Vampires of Venice, halfway through Series 5 (Moffat's first series) we get what some call generic.
Who knows what will happen next? Maybe the music will go back to more minimal stuff like the old days. After all, the grand stuff has had a good innings. I don't mind. I loved the various smaller scale scores of the Classic Series as much as the newer movie style approach.
When a Time LADY takes over the music will be the least of my worries...
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