William Shakespeare's As You Like It [Music from the HBO Film] [Soundtrack]

Patrick Doyle (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Patrick Doyle
• Audio CD (August 14, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000TJ6CWM
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,145 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Kabuki Attack

2. Brothers Fight

3. Niece!

4. Too Late A Week

5. The Forest Of Arden

6. Roynish Clown

7. Under The Greenwood Tree

8. Eat No More

9. Blow Blow

10. Thy Brother

11. Trip Audrey

12. Fake Wedding

13. Lion Attack

14. Celia & Oliver

15. I Love Aliena

16. Tomorrow

17. Weddings

18. A Lover & His Lass

19. Violin Romance

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top-tier Doyle, August 18, 2007

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James Luckard (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: William Shakespeare's As You Like It [Music from the HBO Film] (Audio CD)

Patrick Doyle tends to do his most gorgeous work for Kenneth Branagh's films, which give him the broad canvases his scores excel with. Most directors aren't willing to make their films so dependent on music any more. Many of the cues here are three to five minutes, with achingly lovely themes working their way in and out of each fully developed piece. The main theme, played by a solo violin, backed by the LSO, is especially beautiful. Bravo, Patrick Doyle.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely Worth Purchasing, October 28, 2007

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Gabriel Oak (Middletown, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: William Shakespeare's As You Like It [Music from the HBO Film] (Audio CD)

I'm a big Doyle fan and have CDs for almost all the scores he has written. It's a shame so few people got to see As You Like It because it is one of Branagh's better efforts and it has inspired a lovely score by Patrick Doyle. As another reviewer has noted, there is a wonderful piece for violin at the end of the CD.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Duo of Doyle & Branagh works its magic again-, January 20, 2008

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Todd Nolan (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: William Shakespeare's As You Like It [Music from the HBO Film] (Audio CD)

I attended a music lecture by Seattle Symphony music director/principal conductor Gerard Schwarz several years ago. When asked what he thought of modern film scores/soundtracks as music, Schwarz commented on the fact that the film composer didn't have to worry about development of his/her themes, since all that was needed was the theme itself, often in variation, to serve the purpose of the film with enough music to match a scene of 2 to 3 minutes duration. That's certainly true, but I don't mind a beautiful aria that only lasts a couple of minutes, complete in itself, part of a larger piece or not.

Patrick Doyle's soundtracks have given me as much musical pleasure as any opera, symphony and/or ballet works since I first saw Henry V of Branagh, and rushed to buy the fantastic soundtrack to the film. I've been collecting Doyle's compositions ever since, and have enjoyed his Branagh collaborations because as a previous reviewer mentioned, the combination seems to bring out the best in Doyle. Along with Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Sense & Sensibility, Love's Labour's Lost and now this gorgeous As You Like It, I'd rank Doyle's work with Carter Burwell's Rob Roy, Jocelyn Pook's The Merchant of Venice, Richard Robbin's Maurice, Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings, Shaun Davey's Twelfth Night and Shigeru Umebayashi's House of Flying Daggers. Highly recommended to all classical music lovers, not just soundtrack enthusiasts.