The Queen [Music from the Motion Picture]
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Composer: Alexandre DesplatComposer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Alexandre Desplat
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Performer: David Arch
Performer: Lynne Dawson
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Music Label: Milan Records
Soundtracks:
- The Queen
- Hills Of Scotland
- People's Princess I
- A New Prime Minister
- H.R.H.
- The Stag
- Mourning
- Elizabeth & Tony
- River Of Sorrow
- The Flowers Of Buckingham
- The Queen Drives
- Night In Balmoral
- Tony & Elizabeth
- People's Princess II
- Queen Of Hearts
- Libera Me - Lynne Dawson
Music reviews of The Queen [Music from the Motion Picture]
Music Review: sensible
Rating: 4 Stars
Alexandre Desplat's minimalist score fitly accompanies the taut psychological drama that is THE QUEEN. This 2007 motion picture imaginatively chronicles the tectonic shifts that were occurring in the royal family behind closed doors in the wake of Diana's tragic death in a Paris highway tunnel. Alternately brooding and winsome, Desplat produces a soundtrack that underscores Queen Elizabeth II's rather heroic change of mind regarding her family's role vis-à-vis 'the people'.
The people were in the streets, not exactly manning the barricades but rather shedding tears that astonished themselves and challenged the stern facades of Buckingham and Balmoral. Desplat's music is almost spritely, as though hinting at a lightness of heart that would see the Queen through.
The London Symphony Orchestra manages its task exquisitely. No one--neither composer nor ensemble--overpowers the dramatic screen images. Rather, they suggest, they illuminate, they hint at matters of the heart, as soundtracks and their performers are meant to do.
This is not likely music you'll be playing for your grandchildren, obliging them to feel what *you* felt back then. Yet it *is* music perfectly adapted to its place. The staccato keyboard and the bubbling clarinet of track three ('People's Princess I') hint that such restraint will be the order of the day throughout. What follows does not disappoint.
Fine writing, in a genre that is meant always to play a subdominant role, behind the curtain, off in the wings, subtly from the margins.
Fitting, at moments, for a queen.
Description of The Queen [Music from the Motion Picture]
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.A film about the relationship between Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair in the aftermath of Princess Diana?s death had potential for a pretty turgid soundtrack, but fortunately director Stephen Frears called on Alexandre Desplat. The Frenchman has emerged as a composer with a light touch (recall his score for Syriana ) and his work here, while not his best, doesn?t disappoint either. Whether out of financial limitations or personal preference, Desplat tends to write relatively minimal scores. This one is appropriately downcast but even when titles trumpet intent ("Mourning," River of Sorrow") the music is elegant and even suggests a dark humor at times (the waltz "Elizabeth & Tony," accompanied by shivering violins and the occasional harp). Desplat also makes good use of a jaunty harpsichord on "People?s Princess I" and the old-fashioned, Hitchcockian-sounding "The Queen Drives." The disc concludes with Verdi?s "Libera Me," in the version performed at Diana?s funeral.--Elisabeth Vincentelli
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