Richard III: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album [Soundtrack]

Trevor Jones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 27, 1996)
• Original Release Date: December 29, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: London/PolyGram
• ASIN: B000001FJA
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,013 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Invasion

2. Come Live With Me (Film Version) - Stacey Kent, Vile Bodies

3. Now Is The Winter of Our Discontent

4. The Mortuary

5. Bid Me Farewell I'll Have Her

6. Clarence's Dream

7. Crimson

8. Clarence's Murder

9. The Tower

10. The Blessing

11. Conspiracy

12. Toe Tappers

13. Let Sorrow Haunt Your Bed

14. The Reach Of Hell Long Live The King

15. Good Angels Guard You

16. Coronation Haze

17. Prelude From Te Deum

18. The Golden Dew Of Sleep

19. My Regret

20. Pity Dwells Not This Eye

See all 32 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Stroke of Genius, July 5, 2006

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Makoto Ueno (Canoga Park, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Richard III: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album (Audio CD)

This soundtrack is worth the buy if for nothing else but the second track. "Come Live With Me" is the first line of a popular love poem "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" written by Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary of William Shakespeare. Trevor Jones has masterfully adapted a majority of the verses of the original poem to a 1930s-era big band ballroom song, and he even included one verse from Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd", a poetic response to Marlowe's piece.

This blend of Elizabethan verse with early 20th century atmosphere is a perfect fit for the movie, and it serves as a brilliant accompaniment to the scenes leading up to Richard's first soliloquy.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thought it was inventive and wonderful, November 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Richard III: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album (Audio CD)

I loved the movie, from the big band song at the beginning to the Al Jolson at the end and I was captured by the dialogue. It was such a great movie that I was glad to get the soundtrack.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can some9one verify . . .?, June 3, 2011

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Maria A. Acosta-Mathis "Soccer Player" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Richard III: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album (Audio CD)

Yes, great soundtrack, perfect adaptation. I ask: can someone tell me whether I am imagining things, but . . . the background music to the final battle scene: the future Henry VII chasing Richard III at Bosworth Field . . is that not an adaptation of Isaac Albeniz's "Asturias" from the Iberian Suite? Thanks!