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With the film's upcoming release, any word if this score will be released?
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Lakeshore Records will release the score. Digitally it should be available by now, a CD version should be coming august 28th.
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Lakeshore Records will release the score. Digitally it should be available by now, a CD version should be coming august 28th.
Thanks! Good to know there will be a physical CD eventually, I'll wait for that. 
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I have been listening to this on Spotify a few times and I love it! Quite simply the best Burwell score in years. It has some similarities to Twilight but only those that I recognize from the chamber orchestra arrangements because the actual mix is so horrible in the Twilight scores he did. But it is a lovely chamber orchestra score with a solid main theme. I just wish it didn't have the random Shakuhachi, though from the track titles it seems there is some part of the film set in Japan.
Yeah, I know he's written three scores for Bill Condon since Kinsey, but this was the first time since that score that Burwell's returned to the melancholy chamber sound world he created with Condon's early films. At first listen I don't think Mr. Holmes quite has the thematic hooks that made Gods and Monsters and Kinsey such favorites for me, but it's lovely to hear Burwell writing music like this again.
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Aug 28, 2015 - 11:16 PM
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Essankay
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Not a perfect film (I'm not sure the whole Japanese subplot was even needed), but great performances, beautiful cinematography, nice period atmosphere and a first-rate score by Burwell, as well as some knowing tweaks of the Conan Doyle character for Sherlockians (such as the truth behind that Baker Street address).
Not perfect, true, Doc, but very well done nonetheless as you've said. The Japanese subplot may not have been handled as well as it could have been (or maybe it was) but I would argue that it was definitely needed. It provokes Holmes' first glimmerings of concern for others when he is faced with the devastation of Hiroshima and ultimately it provides the opportunity for him to demonstrate that he's come to see the necessity & usefulness of fiction in the world, that life cannot consist solely of cold, hard facts.
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Aug 29, 2015 - 9:39 PM
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Doc Loch
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Not a perfect film (I'm not sure the whole Japanese subplot was even needed), but great performances, beautiful cinematography, nice period atmosphere and a first-rate score by Burwell, as well as some knowing tweaks of the Conan Doyle character for Sherlockians (such as the truth behind that Baker Street address).
Not perfect, true, Doc, but very well done nonetheless as you've said. The Japanese subplot may not have been handled as well as it could have been (or maybe it was) but I would argue that it was definitely needed. It provokes Holmes' first glimmerings of concern for others when he is faced with the devastation of Hiroshima and ultimately it provides the opportunity for him to demonstrate that he's come to see the necessity & usefulness of fiction in the world, that life cannot consist solely of cold, hard facts.
Nice analysis, although I think you kind of have to draw this out of the film because it doesn't really address these concepts directly. Not that I need everything in a film to be spelled out (I also just saw Phoenix this week and thought the ending was great), but it might have been interesting to expand more on how someone who has devoted his entire life to confronting crime would respond to such an overwhelming and devastating crime against humanity (and given that the film also takes place in a post-Holocaust time period one wonders what Holmes' reaction was to it).
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Gorgeous score. Annoying to have to wait over a month for the physical CD release, but listening now. Burwell at his finest, a beautiful chamber piece, like his 90s arthouse scores.
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