The Little Prince
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Composer: Rachel PortmanConductor: David Charles Abell
Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra
Performer: Adam Field-Wright
Performer: Aled Jones
Performer: Alice Gimblett
Performer: Alok Prasad
Performer: Alys Roberts
Performer: Andrew Bullmore
Performer: Boyd Rodgers
Performer: Charlene Badibanga
Performer: Christina Bennington
Performer: Daisy Fairclough
Performer: David Lewis
Performer: Edmund Haxby
Performer: Evvy Miller
Performer: Freddy de Rivaz
Performer: George Longworth
Performer: Gweneth-Ann Jeffers
Performer: Hannah Calder
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-03-29
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Pilot
- The Stars
- The Pilot Meets The Prince
- Sunsets
- The Prince's Planet
- The Baobabs
- On My Planet
- The Rose
- The Cranes Are Flying
- The King
- The Vain Man
- The Drunkard
- The Businessman
- The Lamplighter
- We Light Our Lamps
- The Snake
- The Rose Garden
- The Hunters
- The Fox
- The Taming
- Here's My Secret
- If We Don't Find A Well
- The Walk To The Well
- The Well
- The Time Has Come
- The Snake Returns
- It Is The Place
- Look At The Stars
- The Little Prince Song
Music reviews of The Little Prince
Music Review: Charming, if unvaried retelling of children's classic...
Rating: 3 Stars
An opera lover must be heartend when a major film composer decides to write an opera. It's doubtless less financially rewarding than writing film music, but still composers are drawn to this parallel form of musical story telling.
Unlike alpha-male symphonic film composers like John Williams or James Horner, Rachel Portman's scores have always maintained a certain delicacy--a certain distance from the writings of the old masters, and here she provides us with many charming and beautiful scenes. A smaller orchestra is employed, and much of the music has an impressionistic quality, with many plaintive solos for flute and oboe. Truly lovely melodies also emerge from the essentially through-composed work.
Yet Ms. Portman's unfamiliarity with operatic writing also shows through. First and foremost, I had a certain feeling of monotony. Each scene is beautifully scored, but how many times can one sing "Danny Boy" befoe one becomes sick of it? There was very little musical distinction between scnes. Secondly, the orchestral writing was much finer than the vocal writing, which often seemed repetitious and unimaginitive.
The fact that a boy soprano sings the lead shows a break with operatic tradion. In the end, this seems very much like a children's opera...though one that, like the beloved book upon which it is based, deals subtly with the meaning of love and death.
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