LATEST NEWS FROM THE HAMMER VAULTS…

On the 28th March, Silva Screen will conjure back to life The Hammer Legacy series.

Available digitally for the first time, the best of the wonderfully crafted Hammer scores is collected here into three blood curdling compilations - The Vampire Collection, The Science-Fiction Collection and The Frankenstein Collection.

Concentrating on The Vampire, Science-Fiction and Frankenstein themes, the compilations feature the music of the legendary James Bernard, Harry Robinson and David Whitaker.

The Science Fiction Collection includes music by Tristram Cary, an early pioneer of electronic music who also wrote for Doctor Who in the early days.

http://www.hammerfilms.com/news/article/newsid/271/new-hammer-legacy-soundtracks-from-silva-screen

Track Listing

The Hammer Legacy: The Frankenstein Collection

1. The Curse Of Frankenstein - Opening Credits
2. The Revenge Of Frankenstein - End Credits
3. The Evil Of Frankenstein - Opening Credits
4. Frankenstein Created Woman
5. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed - Opening Credits & The Death Of Anna
6. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed - Liberating Brandt
7. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed - Frankenstein’s Lust
8. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed - Brandt Awakens
9. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed - End Credits
10. The Horror Of Frankenstein
11. Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell - Helder Meets The Other Patients
12. Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell - The Monster Recovers
13. Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell - Death Of The Monster
14. Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell Finale

The Hammer Legacy: The Science-Fiction Collection

1. The Quatermass Xperiment - Opening Credits
2. Ouatermass 2 - Opening Credits/Things In The Domes/End Credits
3. Quatermass And The Pit - Quatermass And The Pit
4. Quatermass And The Pit - Hideous Dwarf
5. Ouatermass And The Pit - Demons
6. Quatermass And The Pit - Terror
7. Quatermass And The Pit - Panic
8. Quatermass And The Pit - The End - Birth Of Hob
9. Quatermass And The Pit - Finale And End Credits (unused)
10. Quatermass And The Pit - End Credits
11. Quatermass And The Pit - Electronic Music
12. Moon Zero Two

The Hammer Legacy: The Vampire Collection

1. Kiss Of The Vampire - Opening Credits
2. Kiss Of The Vampire - Vampire Rhapsody
3. The Vampire Lovers - Opening Credits
4. Countess Dracula - Opening Credits
5. Lust For A Vampire - Opening Credits
6. Lust For A Vampire - The Dream “Strange Love”
7. Twins Of Evil - Opening Credits
8. Vampire Circus - Opening Credits
9. Vampire Circus - The Tiger Dance
10. Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter - Main Titles
11. The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires
12. The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires - Ambush
13. The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires - The Battle Rages
14. The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires - Introducing Vanessa Buren

Biutiful

On the 18th April, Silva Screen is set to release Gustavo Santaolalla’s poignant soundtrack to the film Biutiful. It is available at

Nominated for an Oscar, two Academy Awards and a BAFTA, Biutiful stars Javier Bardem as Uxbal, a man struggling to reconcile the past and present as he battles a terminal disease.

Argentinian composer Gustavo Santaolalla became only the third composer in Academy Award history to win an Oscar two years running for Brokeback Mountain (2006) followed by Babel (2007)

“Gustavo Santaolalla's haunting music, from complex orchestrations to the melody in a single guitar, filters through the narrative, catching the emotions that bear down on Uxbal”
- Hollywood Reporter

“Gustavo Santaollala provides a characteristically evocative and inventive score”
- Screen Daily

Track Listing:

CD 1

1. Blak butterflies
2. Rein
3. Kat’s gut
4. Wud box
5. Negrosantolallismo
6. Como te extraño mi amor - Café Tacuba
7. Raval
8. Floid
9. As it chud be
10. Meditacion #9 - Sebastian Escofet
11. Shudder/King of Snake - Underworld
12. Lait
13. The beech
14. Epilogue
15. Ravel: 2 Adagio assai (Piano Concerto in G) - Zoltan Kocsis


CD 2

1. Almost eir (remix by Sebastian Escofet)
2. Seedz
3. Maler (arranged by Osvaldo Golijov)
4. But guai?
5. Davis
6. And it mooves
7. Gedeik
8. Tin can gitar
9. Migraine
10. Almost agein
11. Elegiac

Debbie Wiseman Competition

Silva Screen is scheduled to release The Promise, Debbie Wiseman’s soundtrack to the new Channel 4 four-part drama series. The soundtrack will be available from www.silvascreenmusic.com from Monday the 21^st.

Praised by The Metro as "a carefully and beautifully executed film", The Promise follows 18 year old Erin, on her emotional journey to Israel, retracing her grandfather's WWII life as a British peacekeeper in then Palestine.

Peter Kosminsky, the director and writer of The Promise comments:
"Debbie weaves her beautifully played piano with strings, oboe and harp, as well as with Kaval, Duduk, Oud, ethnic flute and Arabic violin to create a soundscape that eloquently interprets the epic scale of a drama about one of the most intractable and tragic conflicts of the modern age"

To celebrate the release of this exceptional soundtrack, Silva Screen is giving five lucky music lovers the chance to win a copy of the album, signed by Debbie Wiseman. To win the competition all you need to do is answer

the following question:

Which year was Debbie Wiseman awarded an M.B.E.?

Send your answers to info@silvascreen.co.uk Remember to include subject heading "Debbie Wiseman Competition", your answer, name and address. Competition closes on the 14th March.

Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol - Tracklisting announced

1. Come Along Pond
2. Halfway out of the Dark
3. Pray for a Miracle
4. Geoff
5. You Didn't Hit the Boy
6. Fish
7. Kazran Sardick 12 1/2
8. Ghost of Christmas Past
9. Babysitter
10. Talk About Girls
11. Sonic Fishing
12. Just a Little One
13. Big Colour
14. I Can't Save Her
15. The Other Half's Inside the Shark
16. Abigail
17. He comes every Christmas
18. Shark Ride
19. New Memories
20. Holding Hands
21. Christmas Dinner
22. Goodlucknight
23. Goodnight Abigail
24. This Planet Is Ours
25. Ghost of Christmas Present
26. The Course of my Life
27. Ghost of Christmas Future
28. Abigail's Song (Silence is all you Know)
29. Everything Has to End Some Time

Track 28 performed by Katherine Jenkins

Francis Lai: The Essential Film Music Collection

On the 7^th February Silva Screen are set to release Francis Lai: The Essential Film Music Collection. Conducted by the composer himself, the album represents a retrospective snap-shot of Lai’s varied and hugely successful film music career.

Francis Lai has received critical acclaim over five decades and has worked with the legendary Edith Piaf. His iconic scores immediately conjure up the world of love, loss, passion and affairs of the heart with music that has struck a chord across the world. It's the perfect pick for Valentine's Day.

Track listing:

1. 13 Jours En France

2. Bilitis

3. Concerto Pour La Fin D’Un Amour

4. Emmanuelle 2

5. Ballet Apocalypse

6. Folies Bergéres

7. Itinéraire D’Un Enfant Gâté

8. La Belle Histoire

9. La Course Du Liévre á Travers Les Champs

10. Le Lecon Particuliere

11. Le Genre Humain

12. Le Passager De La Pluie

13. Les Etoiles Du Cinéma

14. Les Misérables

15. Les Ripoux

16. Pour L’Amour De Tes Yeux Noirs

17. Love Story

18. Mayerling

19. Un Homme Et Une Femme

20. Vivre Pour Vivre

The Promise

On the 21^st February Silva Screen is scheduled to release The Promise, Debbie Wiseman’s soundtrack to the new Channel 4 four-part drama series.

The series follows 18 year old Erin, who sets out on an emotional journey to Israel, retracing her grandfather’s post WWII British peace keeping footsteps in what was then Palestine.

Composer Debbie Wiseman's previous credits include Flood, Wilde, Land Girls and Lesbian Vampire Killers, and on this CD the Royal Philharmonic do full justice to her atmospheric score.

“Debbie weaves her beautifully played piano with strings, oboe and harp, as well as with Kaval, Duduk, Oud, ethnic flute and Arabic violin to create a soundscape that eloquently interprets the epic scale of a drama about one of the most intractable and tragic conflicts of the modern age” – Peter Kosminsky – writer/director – The Promise

Track listing:

1. The Promise

2. Mohammed

3. Refugees

4. Old Jawda

5. Bergen-Belsen

6. Gaza

7. Firefight

8. Ein Hawd (1946)

9. Omar

10. The Betrayal

11. Age Shall Not Weary Them

12. The Settlers

13. It’s Called Loyalty

14. The Fight

15. Deir Yassin

16. The Docks

17. The Key

18. Samira

19. War Zone

20. Hostage

21. The Soldier

22. Old Len

Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol - Cover Art

Here is the splendid cover art for the Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol soundtrack.

Featuring the lovely Katherine Jenkins as Abigail Pettigrew, dashing Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor, and veteran actor Michael Gambon as Kazran Sardick, the rich but lonely Scrooge character.