Manufacturer: BBC Music
It's amazing to realise just how many instantly recognisable themes Mike Post has been responsible for. It would be easy to brand him as the cop show composer with NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, Law & Order and The Rockford Files. But as this collection shows, he's had his musical fingers in just about every genre pie eaten by TV viewers. From the Chas 'n' Dave comedy ...
Manufacturer: Treasury
Quite often, the key to Debbie Wiseman's music for television series My Uncle Silas is a sense of playful mischievousness recalling the cheeky glint in Albert Finney's eye. Opening on a cue entitled "A Rogue's Apprentice", this is an hour of charming and lilting old English countryside splendour. HE Bates' short stories couldn't ask for better musical accompaniment as one bouncing melody ...
Manufacturer: Universal
Manufacturer: Prestige
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
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Manufacturer: Mushroom
Barrington Pheloung's stroke of brilliance in embedding the name of each episode's killer into Morse Code at the start never distracts from his wonderful "Main Theme". Of course the guitar leads, because that is the composer's instrument of choice. On this first volume it should be noted that there is only the original short version of said theme. The original pieces include an ambiguity for ...
Manufacturer: Virgin
This volume improves on its two forebears in a number of ways. The cryptically jolly "Inspector Morse Theme" is shunted last for once, to make way for the adagio "Eirl Theme"--a sombre opening that reflects the album being dedicated to producer Kenny McBain who died during the third series upon which this collection is based. Again, Barrington Pheloung's arrangements of classical source ...
Manufacturer: Virgin VIP
Offering bracketing bonuses on this follow-up album are the "ITV" and "Full" versions of the stately "Morse Theme". Barrington Pheloung's new material then swings between airy strings ("The Warmer Side of Morse"), and chilly piano phrases ("Gently Sinister Revelation"). If sequenced together, the portrait of Morse is of a most tranquil mind at sea while swimming about for clues ("Lewis & Morse"). ...
