A Good Woman, FLYCUB20111, Richard G. Mitchell
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Cube Soundtracks releases the soundtrack album to one of the ‘must-see’ movies of 2005, ‘A Good Woman’, composed by highly acclaimed film and TV composer, Richard G. Mitchell. Press reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, with distinguished film expert and critic Derek Winnert declaring it ‘A Wilde success; a triumph for Hunt and Johansson.’
This scandalous but comic-romantic drama, based on Oscar Wilde’s ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’, features a sensational cast, including Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Umbers and Stephen Campbell Moore, directed by Mike Barker. Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is an audacious and well-known woman of a certain age with a reputation for entertaining wealthy, married men. Leaving her problems and unpaid bills in New York, she sets sail for the Amalfi coast to pursue Meg (Scarlett Johansson) and Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers), one of the most high-profile couples in 1930s New York society. Once in Europe the seductress becomes embroiled in a family scandal, which becomes an intriguing story of betrayal and ultimately surprising loyalty.
The film’s inventive score is the brainchild of music maestro Richard G. Mitchell. Richard’s famed ability to compose in a vast range of styles and still make them unmistakably his own is borne out by a delightful, Handelian pastiche entitled ‘Amor, Amor’, an exquisitely subtle foxtrot based on Cesar Franck’s Panis Angelicus’, a quickstep based on Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’, a one-step on Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers, and a Pergolesi-like aria entitled ‘La Lumi’. Perhaps most surprising and inventive of all is Richard’s setting of the Pie Jesu from Fauré’s Requiem, which dramatically enhances the film’s chapel scene by overlaying it with jazz clarinet and pizzicato strings. In addition, Richard has selected a number of period tracks, which he has skilfully woven into the musical fabric. These range from the laid-back, bluesy atmosphere of Lew Stone & his Band playing ‘Who’ll buy an Old Gold Ring’, to the great tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi singing Bellini on an old ’78 rpm. As a final nice touch, Richard was called in at the last minute to replace a missing trumpeter for the birthday party scene, and can be spotted by the beady-eyed playing along with the rest of the band.
Richard is one of the busiest composers now working in films. Since finishing ‘A Good Woman’ he has already completed another score for ‘The Call of the Toad’, which he recorded in Warsaw with the Polish Radio Orchestra for director Robert Glinskî. His other movie scores include Grand Theft Parsons (the cult comedy starring Johnny Knoxville and Christine Applegate), ‘To Kill a King’ (starring Tim Roth and Rupert Everett) and ‘Basil’, based on the Wilkie Collins novel.
Richard’s wide-ranging work for TV movies includes ‘The Glass’ starring John Thaw, which was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award, ‘Trial by Fire’ starring Juliet Stevenson, for which Richard won an Ivor Novello Award, and the BBC period costume drama, ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’ starring Tara Fitzgerald & Rupert Graves, which won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Original Score. Other television credits, covering a wide variety of styles include ’The Stepfather’, ‘Where There’s Smoke’, ‘Helen West’, ‘Invasion Earth’, ‘Harry’, ‘Children of the Holocaust’, ‘Stolen Brides’, The Seoul Olympic Theme, ‘Masterchef’ and the score for the Opening Ceremony of Euro 96, which was transmitted live from Wembley Stadium around the world.
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Track Listing
1.T he Amalfi Theme
2. Who'll Buy an Old Gold Ring?
3. Meg Goes Shopping
4. Te, O Cara Amor Talora
5. Church on Sunday
6. Meg & Darlington's Theme
7. Cocktails On Darlington's Yacht
8. Amor, Amor
9. Tuppy Romances Stella
10. Windermere's Cheque Book
11. Prendi: L'anel Ti Dono
12. The Panis Angelicus Foxtrot
13. Fan Language
14. La Lumi
15. The Lost Theme
16. Bury A Real Secret
17. The Madam B Quickstep
18. Confrontation On The Boat
19. The Pearl Fisher Onestep
20. Guardian Angel
21. The Santa Lucia Quickstep
22. Stella's Departure
23. Where's this Old Crate Going?
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