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I was wondering if and/or when we might see a release of Murray Gold's music from the last series of Doctor Who. Is anyone in the know about this?
Apart from the terrific rock guitar version of the theme, I was very taken with the music from "Heaven Sent" (although it was very reminiscent of something else, which continues to elude me as to exactly what).
Anyone able to chime in?
Cheers
SG
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It must be coming. The sale of the music rights might have delayed it a bit, but I think the production break this year might also have removed some of the incentive to get the album out during the summer.
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Someone is being very lackadaisical about releasing the new Who soundtrack album, and Silva insists it isn't them, so it's either BBC Worldwide or Murray Gold himself who are taking their time.
We got the series 8 soundtrack relatively swiftly last year (in May, under 5 months after Last Christmas aired), but I think the only reason that one came out when it did was because they wanted it out to sell at the Symphonic Spectacular concerts that were on tour in the summer.
I don't doubt that we will get this eventually, but it's more a case of when. As recently as 13th June Silva tweeted that there was no news of a series 9 release yet. So it sounds like a case of waiting for BBCWW and/or Gold.
Previously, the biggest wait we had for a soundtrack album since they started releasing them was for the Day/Time Of The Doctor release, which came out a year after The Day Of The Doctor was broadcast and 11 months after Time. Also, The Snowmen/The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe was released 11 months after The Snowmen was broadcast, and 23 months after TDTWATW! In that case it was because there wasn't enough material in TDTWATW score to warrant a separate release, so they waited until it could be paired up with The Snowmen and then waited until Christmas to release it.
I'd guess the series 9 soundtrack will probably be out in time for the Christmas market this year and to tie-in with this year's Christmas special. It's possible they may wait until next Spring, when the new series is due to start (which is apparently going to be accompanied by a big marketing blitz), but if they do wait that long I'd expect it to also contain the score for this year's Christmas special too! I'm certainly impatient to have it, especially the music from Heaven Sent.
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I wonder if we'll ever get the Theme from Day of the Doctor or the second Matt Smith version?
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I was just in contact for Silva Screen and a nice lady told me it is not available for them to licence at the moment and they don't know when it will be. Oh well. Murray Gold composed some of his best music for this series (and that is no small feat) and we are not going to hear it properly? Hope is starting to fail...
Well, even such answer - about problems with licence - in any case is much better, when their previous "as soon as we get info - we will tell it to Who fans". At least right now we can stop asking them each month "when will it come?" and just enjoy music from the first 8 series (+ specials), which we luckily got. 'Cause right now I think that we will not see any new DW release in near future. Or, at least - not in same form as we get used to it be.
I knew that BBC did HUGE mistake, when they sold music rights...
Stupid greedy corporation (((
Fans are putting two and two together with this publishing rights thing, but it doesn't make any sense because we've had other soundtracks of music from BBC shows since that went through, such as SHERLOCK series 4, POLDARK and DICKENSIAN. Indeed, when the soundtrack to the SHERLOCK special "The Abominable Bride" didn't show up straight away, people were pinning that on this publishing rights thing, but we eventually got it anyway.
Somebody asked the DOCTOR WHO brand manager what has happened to the series 9 soundtrack on Twitter, and he said that Murray Gold has become a father recently (the implication being that he has therefore been too busy to prepare the series 9 album while also working on series 10). That seems a reasonable enough explanation.
I'm hopeful that we may yet see separate Series 9 and Series 10 releases relatively close together later this year (Most likely around the time that the Complete Series 10 DVD/Blu-ray is released.) There is form for this: the "Series 4 Specials" release didn't come until 4 October 2010, but then the Series 5 release followed only a month later on 8 November 2010.
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So what's going on with the rights? I hear bits and pieces but nothing complete.
Is that why we never got proper releases of the second Matt Smith titles or Day of the Doctor? Or was that just a Gold thing?
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So what's going on with the rights? I hear bits and pieces but nothing complete.
Is that why we never got proper releases of the second Matt Smith titles or Day of the Doctor? Or was that just a Gold thing?
The BBC sold the publishing rights to the music of a large number of its TV shows to BMG last year:
http://www.musicweek.com/publishing/read/bbc-sells-off-music-rights-for-hit-shows-to-bmg/065740
Some Doctor Who fans have latched onto this as the possible reason for why there hasn't been a season 9 soundtrack album yet, but it doesn't really make sense to buy publishing rights and then prevent things from being released, thus preventing making money off the rights! And we have had other soundtracks from BBC shows released since this deal went through (I was wrong about Dickensian, that was released before the deal went through, but Silva released Planet Earth II and Sherlock soundtracks since then - though I suppose it's possible they don't come under the deal - Sherlock is actually made by independent company Hartswood Films, for example.)
The response from the BBC brand manager mentioned above seems to indicate that the delay is with Gold due to him being busy, and that sounds likely. He's never seemed particularly in a rush to get soundtracks out (I could be wrong, but I don't think there was ever a CD release of his music from series 1 of The Musketeers - only an album of the series 2 and 3 scores by Paul Englishby - and Gold's score for the David Attenborough natural history series Life Story never got an album, even though it was the focus of a concert at the Proms in 2015,) and I remember the Series 8 soundtrack took a while and only came out when it did because it had to be out in time for the Symphonic Spectacular concert tour in 2015.
The issue with the Matt Smith title music predated the BMG deal, and I think the word on the streets (on Gallifrey Base anyway) was that Gold wasn't happy with those versions of the theme, and that's why they weren't released. Though a lot of supposition and assuming seems to get reported as fact on Doctor Who forums from people pretending to have more of an inside track than they really do!
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Oh, just saw that the Brand Manager addressed this again yesterday on Twitter:
"I feel I've explained this a few times. Murray hasn't delivered a soundtrack yet. I'm not sure it's a priority for him."
https://twitter.com/edwardrussell/st...80644825452544
Which backs up my theory that he's not that arsed about getting soundtrack albums out there.
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