Sleuth [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [Soundtrack]

Patrick Doyle | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000VS6P0U
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,667 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Visitor - Patrick Doyle

2. The Ladder

3. You're Now You

4. I'm Not A Hairdresser

5. Black Arrival

6. Milo Tindle

7. I Was Lying

8. Itch Twitch

9. Rat In A Trap

10. One Set All

11. Cobblers

12. Sleuth

13. Too Much Sleuth

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Patrick Doyle - Always superior., November 21, 2007

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John Williams (Budapest, Hungary) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sleuth [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

There are a few composers working today, that can almost never fail. Their style, their way of writing takes them and the listener to special places each time they travel on the wings of music. No matter what the genre,no matter what the story is, Patrick Doyle always delivers. He triumphs this time too, and it's pure joy to listen to his latest composition.
The melodies are sweet, tender, emotional, never too much, and always interesting.
I wonder when this master of film music will earn his longtime necessary Oscar, because Doyle is, no doubt about it, one of the best film music composers around.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Variations On A Theme, August 2, 2009

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Robin Ray "redrobin62" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sleuth [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

While I do admire Patrick Doyle very much, this score isn't one of his best. It's actually a theme and variations piece - you hear the same four-chord A minor pattern over and over in several incarnations. This makes the music sound more like a Philip Glass composition. It does wear thin after a while. They also could have left the voices-overs out from the track 'I'm not a Hairdresser.' What the points are for is the quality of the recording itself (excellent) and the fact that Doyle even attempted a theme and variations score. I usually don't like drums mixed in with orchestral readings, but here it is appropriately used. Actually, it's necessary here, if anything to break up the monotony and general sameness of the musics. Someday I'm sure Patrick Doyle will write a full symphony or orchestral suite of some kind. He has the talent and time. This score must surely have been written in one day. It sounds like it.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Score. Patrick Doyle Does It Again., July 3, 2010

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HAMLET - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sleuth [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

Patrick Doyle, the genius behind the music for all but two of Kenneth Branagh's films, has done it again, though this time the movie itself is mediocre, and not at all what I have come to expect from Mr. Branagh, but it's a good effort, at best. The score, however, is terrific. My favourite track is "Too Much Sleuth."