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Richard Rodney Bennett's score for the Sidney Lumet adaptation of Agatha Christie's whodunit Murder on the Orient Express is a complicated, varied orchestral work reflecting the shifting tones and large cast of characters in the movie. Things are always changing in the music, just as they do onscreen, as viewers try to make sense out of the unusually broad panorama of suspects investigated by master detective Hercule Poirot on a snowbound train in Yugoslavia in the 1930s. Bennett uses what he, in his liner notes to the 2003 reissue, calls a "trashy main theme" that sounds like it was borrowed from one of those classically influenced pop songs of the '40s, and he concludes with a sweeping waltz, but in between the music cues respond to the contours of the convoluted plot, which makes this the sort of score that works well while one is watching the movie, but that sounds schizophrenic when listened to simply as an aural work. Nevertheless, it is full of entertaining juxtapositions and traditional elements twisted just enough to give them an unusual feel, a tone that is true to a movie both steeped in its genre and, ultimately, able to move beyond that.
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Richard Rodney Bennett, Main Artist
2003 DRG RECORDS 2003 DRG RECORDS
Richard Rodney Bennett, Main Artist
2003 DRG RECORDS 2003 DRG RECORDS
Richard Rodney Bennett, Main Artist
2003 DRG RECORDS 2003 DRG RECORDS
Richard Rodney Bennett, Main Artist
2003 DRG RECORDS 2003 DRG RECORDS
Richard Rodney Bennett, Main Artist
2003 DRG RECORDS 2003 DRG RECORDS
Richard Rodney Bennett, Main Artist
2003 DRG RECORDS 2003 DRG RECORDS
Richard Rodney Bennett, Main Artist
2003 DRG RECORDS 2003 DRG RECORDS
Richard Rodney Bennett, Main Artist
2003 DRG RECORDS 2003 DRG RECORDS
Richard Rodney Bennett, Main Artist
2003 DRG RECORDS 2003 DRG RECORDS
Richard Rodney Bennett, Main Artist
2003 DRG RECORDS 2003 DRG RECORDS
Album review
Richard Rodney Bennett's score for the Sidney Lumet adaptation of Agatha Christie's whodunit Murder on the Orient Express is a complicated, varied orchestral work reflecting the shifting tones and large cast of characters in the movie. Things are always changing in the music, just as they do onscreen, as viewers try to make sense out of the unusually broad panorama of suspects investigated by master detective Hercule Poirot on a snowbound train in Yugoslavia in the 1930s. Bennett uses what he, in his liner notes to the 2003 reissue, calls a "trashy main theme" that sounds like it was borrowed from one of those classically influenced pop songs of the '40s, and he concludes with a sweeping waltz, but in between the music cues respond to the contours of the convoluted plot, which makes this the sort of score that works well while one is watching the movie, but that sounds schizophrenic when listened to simply as an aural work. Nevertheless, it is full of entertaining juxtapositions and traditional elements twisted just enough to give them an unusual feel, a tone that is true to a movie both steeped in its genre and, ultimately, able to move beyond that.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:39:19
- Main artists: Soundtrack/Cast Album
- Label: DRG Records
- Genre: Soundtracks Film Soundtracks
2003 DRG RECORDS 2003 DRG RECORDS
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