Somehow Debbie Wiseman makes her TV music budgets go a long way. For Absolute Truth, a study of the development of the Catholic Church, she aptly centres the score around the religious musical constant--a mixed choir. Their volume en masse rings at a powerful level, and--as introduced in the title cue--is the dominant voice in her instrumental palette. The strings and woodwinds ...
If you can't get enough of that wrestling stuff, this is the box set for you. Four CDs include music by wrestling's old-school 1980s stars (Hulk Hogan, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Captain Lou Albano), heavy-metal hits (on Full Metal: The Album) and volumes 2 and 3 of the WWF: The Music compilations. WWF fans will recognise the entrance themes for most of the turn-of-the-millennium's hottest ...
Howard Goodall's Big Bangs, the album, is part of a modern phenomenon: a multimedia project centred around a television series and encompassing a book of the same title. In isolation, the album might appear strangely random, yet it affords the opportunity to hear in full pieces which could only be presented briefly on TV. Unusually for an anthology, nine of the 19 tracks were specially ...
Although not exactly an experiment, this first Babylon 5 TV movie would pave the way for the three that followed (Thirdspace, The River of Souls, and A Call To Arms). Everything about it had to be bigger. For Christopher Franke this results in cues where you really can hear something of his orchestra for a change. Creator Strackzynski apparently insisted he "break our ...