|
|
|
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Patrick Doyle Sony Classical SK 62258 Released 1995 |
|
|
If you've read any of my other reviews, you know that Patrick Doyle is my favorite composer working today. Thus you can assume that I bought this score the day it was released (and months before I saw the film). I wasn't immediately gripped, I have to say - there is a lot of "samey" material in the middle - but the themes were once again very strong, and the music had the sublime quality of a purely classical recording. After a dozen or so listens, I was easily sold on the wonderfully delicate score with real moments of innocence and love. When I went to see the film, I marveled at how the music was so perfect and felt so "period" and everything blended into an outstanding movie. I remember Emma Thompson saying something about nobody believing that Patrick Doyle wrote the score during her Golden Globe acceptance speech, and I felt she was right - surely the soundtrack was a combination of original score and classical pieces? - and I was naturally disappointed that the score didn't win the Globe. If not one of Doyle's best, certainly one that's "way up there"! Highly recommended. | |