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Oliver Twist Original Score

Rachel Portman (Artist) Format: Audio CD
3.8 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
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Track Listings

1 Streets of London
2 The Road to the Workhouse
3 A Kind Old Woman
4 Oliver Runs Away
5 The Artful Dodger
6 Fagin's Loot
7 The Game
8 Oliver Learns the Hard Way
9 Watching Mr. Brownlow's House
10 The Escape from Fagin
11 Prelude to a Robbery
12 The Robbery
13 Toby and the Wounded Oliver
14 Nancy's Secret Journey
15 The Murder
16 Wanted: Bill Sykes and a Fierce Dog
17 The Death of Bill Sykes
18 Newgate Prison

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Listening to Rachel Portman's score, you find yourself wondering if she misread the assignment sheet and thought she was working for an adaptation of the Dickens classic made by Masterpiece Theater, not one by troubled, thoughtful cinéaste Roman Polanski. The music here is lovely. Portman, whose other works include Nicholas Nickleby and Emma, is very skilled at evoking 19th-centure ambiance without falling into pure mimicky of that period's classical composers. But "lovely" isn't necessarily what one might expect from Oliver Twist. It's all very quiet. How could something titled "Escape from Fagin" be that subdued?

And yet so it is. "The Murder" reprises similar themes with the same results. The Prague Philharmonic (a popular orchestra who's recorded everything from Dr. Strangelove: Music from the Films of Stanley Kubrick to the heavy strains of black metal band Dimmu Borgir) does its best, but one wishes for more depth throughout. Polanski is never afraid to stare straight into the darkness; Portman should have felt empowered to do the same. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.33 inches; 3.84 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ SONY MASTERWORKS
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2005
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 53 minutes
  • SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 9, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ SONY MASTERWORKS
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000AYQO9C
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • T. Lau
    5.0 out of 5 stars High Quality Music.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2008
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    I love this album.

    If you've seen the movie, the soundtrack that goes with it (as well as the movie itself) is phenomenal.

    If you're like me, a John William's fan, you'll be able to follow the movie through with this soundtrack alone. It is that good. Listening to it on a quiet afternoon or on the airplane, wherever you may be, can totally take you to that place in London back in the 19th century.

    A lovely album. Must-buy.
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  • Miller Beach Girl
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful evocative music...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2018
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    I love Rachel Portman's soundtracks - She also did Ciderhouse Rules, and another Dickens' film, Nicholas Nickleby. She is one of the best composers around these days. Evocative but not overwhelming, surprisingly emotional.
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  • Gary Lane
    1.0 out of 5 stars I was very disappointed with this CD and threw it in the trash.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2013
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    I have never before felt strongly enough to review ANYTHING online but I was very disappointed with this CD and threw it in the trash. I expected the soundtrack with the songs I loved as a kid from the motion picture and think I got the underlying musical score. Perhaps I did not pay close enough attention but I feel this album was deceptively labelled and marketed.
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  • just_another_reader
    2.0 out of 5 stars Anyone else catch the Godfather references?
    Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2005
    The soundtrack is OK, but the latter half of the new Oliver Twist film uses a theme (Wanted: Bill Sykes and a Fierce Dog) that's extremely reminiscent (to put it mildly) of a major Godfather theme. I mean, to the point that I found it extremely distracting in the film. It's the same three note riff that's so important to some dramatic scenes in Coppola's film.
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  • ELi
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2018
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    Good music from a great play
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  • 6thohio
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2016
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    Beautiful music.
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  • Chris Drnaso
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Happy Accident
    Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2019
    I asked for the soundtrack for Oliver (the movie musical) and my son bought me the score for the movie Oliver Twist. My disappointment didn't last long as I thought this score was simply beautiful. Rachel Portman is brilliant.
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  • Josh L. Bizeau
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of Rachel Portman's Best Works
    Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2005
    Pay no heed to the reviewer below. Any references found to themes from The Godfather are entirely coincidental (there are MANY three-note themes that sound similar; doesn't mean a thing. . . I mean, it's three notes!!) and, in fact, you could point to Portman's music leaning a bit toward sounding like more like Wojciech Kilar than anyone else and that's quite understandable due to director Roman Polanski's affiliation with that composer for quite some time.

    What we have in Oliver Twist is pretty much the Rachel Portman we've always known, only now she's reached into unfimiliar territory for many of her listeners: dark, brooding themes and lots of minor key tonal centering. The score features a few notable themes, but only two are central to the score: Oliver's Theme and Fagin's Theme. Both of these themes are juxtaposed against one another effectively to create quite the wonderful English-sounding musical backdrop to Dickens' dark yet quirky character tale.

    Portman's sensibilities towards strings and winds remain as strong as they ever have been, only this time she relies much more on use of the double basses and lower wind instruments to create carefully brooding textures for the more gloomy sections of the score. Her rhythmic action motifs are repetitive but effective and the simpler portions of the score are exquisitely well done and precisely orchestrated.

    Overall, this is one of the biggest film score surprises of the year and I heartily recommend it to all Portman fans and especially to film music fans who have been disappointed in the 2005 film score year on the whole. This is a score to be long remembered and one to which Dickens himself would, I believe, give his approval.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2017
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    I really liked this CD it was very good
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  • kim12email
    4.0 out of 5 stars Did what it said on the tin.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2014
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    Came just in time, would have been nice if it came a bit earlier as it was for a Birthday. But overall: good condition, great price gift.
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  • Ronald Bauer
    2.0 out of 5 stars Hatte mehr erwartet
    Reviewed in Germany on December 20, 2009
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    Der Film lief bei der letzten Aufführung im Fernseher nebenher. Was mich immer wieder aufsehen ließ, war die Musik. Spontan holte ich mir die Scheibe bei Amazon. Schon beim ersten 'reinhören war ich enttäuscht. Die ersten 7 Tracks "nudeln" das Haupt-Thema immer wieder durch. Damit wird ein eigentlich hörbares Stück ziemlich nervend. Alles in allem hört sich das alles ein wenig an wie die Adaption von "Chocolat". Die "düsteren" Tracks erinnern stark an die Kompositionen von John Williams zu den Harry-Potter Filmen. Schade eigentlich.
    Wer einzelne Tracks als MP3-Downloaden kann, sollte für die drei bis vier guten Tracks lieber diesen Weg wählen - ist auch billiger.
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