Brideshead Revisited [Soundtrack, Import]

Geoffrey Burgon (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Geoffrey Burgon
• Audio CD (January 24, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack, Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000006UQ9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,472 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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This CD can be considered somewhat rare now.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Watch Out for Similarly Titled CD, April 19, 2001

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M. Allen Greenbaum (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brideshead Revisited (Audio CD)

The CD I have is also titled "Brideshead Revisited: The Television Scores of Geoffrey Burgon," but it is NOT the same CD as that offered here. Instead, it includes only six compositions from "Brideshead" (the Theme, "Julia," "Julia's Theme," "The Hunt," "Fading Light," and "Farewell to Brideshead") totalling just under 19 minutes. The rest of the CD includes tracks from other Burgon TV scores, including "The Chronicles of Narnia-Suite (13:32)," "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (3:48)," "Testament of Youth-Suite (9:37)," and "Bleak House-Suite (12:19)."

The version above contains the "Brideshead" score only. This is excellent news, because the stately, sonorous tones of this work is immensely enjoyable. If you've read/seen "Brideshead Revisited" the music will evoke the people and places populating Waugh's masterpiece. If you haven't, I think you'll enjoy this on its own merits. Highly recommended!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent Score, January 30, 2000

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anneelise "anneliseirish" (Wyandotte, MI United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Brideshead Revisited (Audio CD)

Feeling that the television production of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED is one of the most alluring ever made for the medium, I come to this soundtrack somewhat prejudiced. My original LP of this soundtrack has long since worn out and I had rather forgotten about it. While listening to a classical station at work one day, the entire score was played and I was immediately transported to the land of Sebastian, Charles and all the wonderful characters of Brideshead. Anyone who enjoyed the production would certainly love this score, but there is much here for those who have never seen it. Like many soundtracks, there is a recurring theme, or note, that is expanded upon. It is lovely music, very evocative, somewhat sad but delightful to listen to.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Burgon's idiosyncratic brilliance is brilliant, November 16, 2004

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Horst Meisterfluscher - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brideshead Revisited (Audio CD)

For me, the stand-out tracks are JULIA'S THEME and SEBASTIAN AGAINST THE WORLD. In BRIDESHEAD THEME, it's a borderline-thrill to hear that bassoon putt-putting all over the place in the background. The second part of GOING TO BRIDESHEAD has that brilliant suspended-string shtick. VENICE NOCTURNE has a slow hypnotic quality that reminded me of John Barry. The end of THE FIRST VISIT is also Barryesque. In JULIA, the harmonic tension between the woodwinds and the strings is admirably modernistic.

My favorite passage is near the end of SEBASTIAN'S SUMMER. An oboe passage, backed with a brilliant ascending violin figure, and with the violas doing a slow trill.