Doctor Who: Series 4
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Composer: Murray GoldConductor: Ben Foster
Orchestra: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2009-01-13
Music Label: Silva America
Soundtracks:
- Doctor Who Series Four Opening Credits
- Noble Girl About Town
- Life Among the Distant Stars
- Corridors and Fire Escapes
- Sybilline Sisterhood
- Songs of Captivity and Freedom
- UNIT Rocks
- Doctor's Daughter
- Source
- Unicorn and the Wasp
- Doctor's Theme Series Four
- Voyage of the Damned Suite
- Girl with No Name
- Song of Song
- All in the Mind
- Silence in the Library
- Greatest Story Never Told
- Midnight
- Turn Left
- Dazzling End
- Rueful Fate of Donna Noble
- Davros
- Dark and Endless Dalek Night
- Pressing Need to Save the World
- Hanging on the Tablaphone
- Song of Freedom
- Doctor Who Series Four Closing Credits
Music reviews of Doctor Who: Series 4
Music Review: Just gorgeous! Murray Gold goes epic
Rating: 5 Stars
Like Bear McCreary, Murray Gold is getting better and better. The score for the new doctor has an interesting history. In the first half of the first series it was mostly incidental music with very little original material, it got a bit better in the second half and from the interviews with Murray Gold from that era it becomes clear he thought that this was as epic as it would get but we know of course he was dead wrong. From series two on, Murray worked extensively with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and its choir. The music now truly took off and sounded more like the score for some movie.The third series was less melodic and more experimental, yet it had some highlights. We have now reached the fourth series and with it we receive an intensely, harmonious and epic score that sweeps away with grand melodic structures that will take the breath away not only of Whovians but of any right minded music lover.
The score starts of course with the main theme of series four which is unfortunately maybe one of the few tracks I do not like. I really tried to get used to the new mix but I could never warm up to it. "A Noble Girl About Town " fits very well to the episode, since it was a light-hearted and slightly cheesy episode. "Life Among the Distant Stars " must also be from the first episode yet the tone is very different. It starts as a quiet, reflective piano piece with a tinge of sadness and yearning, that ends with a full orchestra. I am not sure when the track was used and in what context. I guess I have to watch the first episode again.
"Song of Captivity and Freedom" is the first time that the listener hears the "Song of Freedom" sung only by a single counter tenor. It gave me goosebumps. "UNIT Rocks" does exactly that and made me grin. It is simply the UNIT theme with some drums added. "The Doctor's Theme" returns and is yet another track that is just plain goosebumps material. I have to use a word that I have used now quite often and is true again. Epic just epic. In this version of the doctors theme it is not sung by Melanie Pappenheim but by a full choir. Those who have been lucky enough to get one of the Prom tickets or listened to it on the radio know that theme already. It was THE highlight. Together with "Song of Freedom"
"All in the Mind" is a curious track. It sounds like a little folk song with guitar and flute. Very different and again I have no clue when it was used. Very probably in "Silence in the Library". "Silence in the Library" is a track that is both mysterious and magical. Very fitting for the library world. The track "The Greatest Story Never Told" was exactly the music I was yearning to listen to since hearing it in "Forest of the Dead" and to hear it now made me cry. The orchestra and the choir. OMG. I have no words to describe this track properly. The way Murray works with the orchestra and choir is just fabulous. The theme of the doctor is woven in and even "All The Strange, Strange Creatures" is in the track! No idea why but I won't complain. The track soars and sweeps the listener from his/her feet.
"Midnight" is a classic horror track but of the kind I know from real horror movies, never from Doctor Who. Very well done, Mr. Gold. "Turn Left" is atmospheric and features a ghostly theme from the doctor over a synthesizer. "A Dazzling End" has something from "Doomsday" but is upbeat. I love the little track. The guitar, the beat, the way the whole orchestra revs up. I really have no clue from which episode the track is theoretically it should be from "Turn Left" too. "The Rueful Fate of Donna Noble" reminded me of Martha and her journey in the lost year. It features guitars and drums.
"Davros" is a a strange but fascinating track. Dissonant instruments, sampled electrical sounds all colliding with each other. It reflects Davros nicely. It is twisted, mad and not very wholesome. Time for the Dalek theme to return and it does on an epic scale with "The Dark and Endless Dalek Night". A very powerful and dark track. "The Pressing Need to Save The World" is a furiously, fast paced action track that would fit in any Bond movie but instead of Barrys Bond theme woven into it, we get instead (for some strange reason) the YANA theme aka "All The Strange, Strange Creatures" So I wasn't crazy. I did hear the theme from the Master. Why Murray Gold used that theme and not the doctor will be his secret. The track is never the less the most action oriented cue to this date in Doctor Who and it totally rocks!
For some strange reason "Hanging on the Tablaphone" makes me smile. It is a crazy, fast paced little affair and then it comes...."Song Of Freedom". I cried. I just cried. The track was already amazing at The Proms but with perfect mixing and editing this track became even better - if that is possible. I can listen to it over and over again ...this is actually true for the whole score.
Harry Potter was never that epic! The only other score I can think of as being this ...large... was "Lord of the Rings" by Howard Shore! It is a bloody shame that Oscars are not given to television shows. Murray Gold deserves for this score an Oscar, Grammy and Globe and will get none. It sucks. IMO Murray Gold should really write the score for "Deathly Hallows". He would do a great job!
It has been quite a while that a score has made me this insanely happy. If I could hug it, I would. A perfect five out of five for this one. None of the movie soundtracks or the Stargate soundtracks came even close to this perfection.
Description of Doctor Who: Series 4
Murray Gold's powerful score for Doctor Who is widely regarded as a major element in the revival of the classic cult series. The music from the previous three series has proved to be a bestseller and has been much acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. This much anticipated collection will include Song Of Freedom, the stirring choral piece that celebrated the defeat of the Daleks in the final episode of the series and proved to be a major hit at the recent Doctor Who Prom.From his ground-breaking, BAFTA-nominated score to Vanity Fair, to the RTS Award-winning soundtrack to Queer as Folk and Torchwood, Murray Gold is one of the most accomplished composers working in television today.
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