The Patrick Doyle Archive

On Sunday night, October 28 at London's Royal Albert Hall, a gala charity concert of Patrick's work took place to benefit leukemia research.   Here's a review of this fantastic event from Music from the Movies; also, a talk show interview with Patrick and one of his concert guest stars, Imelda Staunton, prior to the show.

You can still donate to Leukaemia Research online at http://www.patrickdoyleconcert.co.uk.

Here's what was played at the concert...

Much Ado About Nothing ("Sigh No More Ladies," Overture, and "Pardon, Goddess of the Night')

Indochine ("La Derive")

Gosford Park ("String Folly" and "The Way It's Supposed to Be")

East-West ("The Land")

Sense and Sensibility ("My Father's Favorite" and "Weep You No More Sad Fountains")

Hamlet ("In Pace" and "My Thoughts Be Bloody")

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ("Harry Potter Waltz" and "Harry in Winter")

 The world premiere of the Rosalind Violin Concerto (based on themes from As You Like It)

Calendar Girls ("I Find Your Love")

Carlito's Way (Elegy)

Henry V ("St. Crispin's Day" and "Non Nobis, Domine")

Encores:  "Strike Up, Pipers" from Much Ado About Nothing and "The Creation" from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Here's another review (with a bit of photos and video) from a concertgoer (Part 1 and Part 2 of review).

Isabel has passed on a great photo of folks onstage at the event!)

Varese Sarabande has announced its upcoming CD release for Patrick's score to Kenneth Branagh's new version of Sleuth, starring Michael Caine and Jude Law, which will play at both the Venice and Toronto film festivals this fall.   The CD is due out on October 9, and the film goes on general release in the U.S. on October 12.  (Check out the website for Sleuth!)

Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It will be released in the U.S. and U.K. after August. There is a new trailer for the film available which features some of the underscore. From the production notes for the film:

The music is written by Academy Award-winning composer Patrick Doyle, who met Branagh as an actor back in the 1980s with the latter’s theatre company Renaissance, and has collaborated on seven of his films. Doyle also plays the part of chief court musician Amiens in the film.

Doyle’s starting point for the score was the music he wrote for three songs in the Renaissance production of As You Like It. These are Under The Greenwood, Blow, Blow Thy Winter Wind and It Was A Lover And His Lass. “Fortunately, they were very loosely based around the pentatonic five-note scale, which is Japanese,” recalls the composer, “So I was ahead of the game!”

As part of his preparation, Doyle watched Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, which was based on Macbeth. “In fact, it wasn’t that far removed from what I was going to do in that it was a fusion of east and west. So I thought, ‘Well, if that’s totally acceptable in a Japanese production, I’m on the right lines’.”

Doyle wanted to give the film a Japanese feel musically without ignoring the fact that the Dukes and their courtiers are Western. He made the decision to surround the three songs with Japanese instruments. “So, for example, instead of the harp, we have the koto, which is like a very reedy harp,” he explains.

There's no date announced yet on a CD release for the score. 

 The new Regis Wargnier thriller Pars Vite et Reviens Tard (English title: Have Mercy on Us All) will hit theaters in France at the end of January, with a CD to be released on Colosseum (Colosseum CST81152) on January 22.  This is the fifth collaboration between Wargnier and Patrick Doyle.

 Track listing:

1 Camille  02:15
2 L'erudit / The Scholar 03:01
3 Les symptomes du fleau / The Symptoms of the Plague 01:13
4 La longue nuit / The Long Night 04:29
5 L'archaeologue / The Archaeologist 01:55
6 La mort en marche / Death Approaches 02:15
7 Le solitaire / Lonely Thoughts 01:55
8 La maison du mystere / The House of Mystery 02:26
9 Adamsberg & Marie 01:57
10 Le semeur / The Sower 02:55
11 Mort a Marseille / Death in Marseille 01:34
12 Chasse a l'homme / The Chase 02:34
13 Africa 03:31
14 Revelation 02:20
15 Le crime et l'enfant / The Crime and the Child 01:44
16 La coupable / The Guilty One 05:10

Patrick's score for Eragon is scheduled for release on RCA Records on December 12.  The official website for the film seems to feature excerpts from his score (hint: you can get a better listen by choosing "Downloads" and then not moving your mouse).  Here's a track listing of the CD:

1. Eragon
2. Roran Leaves
3. Saphira's First Flight
4. Ra'zac
5. Burning Farm
6. Fortune Teller
7. If You Were Flying
8. Brom's Story
9. Durza
10. Passing The Flame
11. Battle for Varden
12. Together
13. Saphira Returns
14. Legend of Eragon
15. Keep Holding On (song)
16. Once In Every Lifetime (song)

Wah-Wah stars Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson and Emily Watson.  What's it about?  You can read a review from Iofilm.   

Director Richard Grant is interviewed about the film at Comingsoon.net and comments on Patrick's music.

Varese Sarabande will release a score CD for Wah-Wah on Nov. 14. 

 
TRACK LISTING:
1. Swaziland (2:16)
2. Lauren Leaves (1:51)
3. Train Away (3:20)
4. The Key (2:14)
5. The Shooting (1:34)
6. The Bridge (2:31)
7. Fabulous News (0:47)
8. Monica (1:13)
9. Goodbye Swaziland (3:02)
10. Independence (1:33)
11. Months to Live (1:44)
12. Harry Dies (1:32)
13. Ngatsi Ngisahamba (1:46)
14. Please Forgive Me (3:46)
15. Wah-Wah (6:19) 

Spanish soundtrack site Scoremagacine has published the first part of their Patrick Doyle CD Buyers' Guide, which covers Henry V (1989) through A Little Princess (1995).

The second part of this guide is now available. 

Goblet of Fire has been nominated for a Saturn Award in the category of Best Music.  The Saturn Awards are given out annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.   This year's awards will be given out May 2.

Soundtrack.net mentioned the score as among their top 10 for 2005.

Seven tracks from the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire score are included on Silva Screen's latest compilation album, Music from the Harry Potter Films (Silva Screen SILCD1206).  The CD also includes John Williams' music from the first three films.

The score for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has received the "Best Original Sci-Fi/Fantasy Motion Picture Score of the Year" award from the International Film Music Critics Association.  It was also nominated for Best Original Motion Picture Score and Patrick was nominated for Film Composer of the Year.

The latest issue of Music from the Movies (48/49) has very lengthy interviews with Patrick and director Mike Newell where they discuss the Harry Potter score and film, the scoring process, and their working relationship (which began with 1993's Into the West). 

This half-hour animated film by Glasgow Animation has actually been in the works for a number of years and Patrick has been attached to the project since at least 2003.   Sean Connery, who is voicing the title character (a Scottish veterinarian with a pet goat), is interviewed in the Glasgow Sunday Mail about this project, which may be finished by next summer to be shown on the festival circuit, with the possibility of it being developed as a TV series in Scotland.

Patrick is not only scoring the film, but will also be a member of the cast (playing the role of The Admiral).  The website for the film is now available, along with an article about the film in the Glasgow Daily Record.

 Kenneth Branagh's long-discussed Japanese As You Like It will be released theatrically in the fall of 2006.  Air-Edel's website notes the following:

In recent months Patrick has (briefly) returned to acting and singing! He was offered a featured role in Kenneth Branagh's latest Shakespearean adaptation of "As You Like It", an experience he thoroughly enjoyed.

Obviously, he's written the score for it too.

Advance screenings of the film (without completed music) indicate there's some Much Ado About Nothing-esque singing and dancing...not surprising since the play contains several musical interludes.

Here's  a nice overview of the film and a brief interview with Kenneth Branagh about the approach taken to Shakespeare this time around:

"There are two central themes in the play -- one is romantic love, the other is getting away from the rat race... The late 19th century period in Japan was one in which they were going through the process of moving from an agricultural to an industrial nation and so they let Westerners in and also sent thousands of their own people to the outside world.  Our world in the film is meant to revolve around one of those treaty ports which existed in the Meiji period... In many cases the people [Europeans] went native, would wear the clothes and even practice martial arts."

A lengthy (and illustrated) interview with Kenneth Branagh in the Telegraph reveals more details about the film.