September 5, 2007 - Film Music Magazine

For those years when Rocket Post remained u
score kept the film alive for me and other me
you dipped into their gorgeous score, there c
financiers would finally release it. Working w
producer’s joy. They understood immediately
current of strong emotion. And they worke
Nigel beavered away orchestrating all the
man doing the job of ten men, and all the
Michael’s piano playing bringing to life
film. And then there was the day when
Michael and Nigel’s music. I do ho
enjoyment from Michael and Ni
have all had. – Mark Shorroc
March 8th, 2007
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5. Impressions (1.55)
. Building the Rocket (1.44)
cross the Sea (1.37)
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) • 17. Paint Dance (1.01)
tant Shores’ (5.20)
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grassy knoll above the beach. I remember p
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ROCKET
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This recording A 2006 G&J
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score © 2003 Nigel Clarke,
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administered by Air-Edel
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ROCKET POST • Nigel Clarke & Michael Csányi-Wills MMS-07006
Nathan Barr:
Tortured
n With the stories of the two Hostel films in mind,
it doesn’t come as a surprise that Nathan Barr has
been hired to score a film called Torture. The composer
of the two Hostel scores is scoring this film,
which is actually more of a dramatic crime thriller.
It tells the story about an FBI agent who faces a
moral dilemma when he’s asked to torture a criminal. Emmanuelle
Chiriqui and Laurence Fishburne star in the film, which is directed by
Nolan Lebovitz. mc
Abel Korzeniowski:
Terra
n The animated adventure Terra, featuring the
voices of Luke Wilson, Chris Wilson, Brian Cox,
Evan Rachel Wood and James Garner, gets an
original score by Polish composer Abel Korzeniowski
(The Half Life of Timofey Berezin). The film
is produced by MeniThings LLC and Snoot Entertainment
and directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas, a
digital effects wizard who has worked as an artist on films such as
Hellboy and Titanic. mc
and WILLIAM MORRISSEY produced by MARK SHORROCK directed by STEPHEN WHITTAKER
music composed by NIGEL CLARKE and MICHAEL CSÁNYI-WILLS line producer ALISON BARNET
producers DAVID KENNAWAY CATHERINE DAVIES executive producers ROBERT BEVAN
KEITH HAYLEY CHARLIE SAVILL GUY HANDS JULIA HANDS screenplay by JAMES MACINNES
casting director JANEY FOTHERGILL make-up & hair designer ALISON DAVIES costume designer
STEWART MEACHEM production designer ALISON RIVA
edited by IAN CRAFFORD & BEVERLY MILLS director of photography RICHARD GREATREX, bsc
in association with LITTLE WING FILMS ULRICH THOMSEN “THE ROCKET POST” SHAUNA
MACDONALD GARY LEWIS KEVIN MCKIDD PATRICK MALAHIDE
EDDIE MARSAN CLIVE RUSSELL JIMMY YUILL IAN McNEICE and JOHN WOOD
G&J SALES AND DISTRIBUTION present an ULTIMATE PICTURES UK production
Special thanks from MovieScore Media to
Alison Wright, Simon Waite, Guy Hands,
and Nigel Clarke & Michael Csányi-Wills.
Composers’ web site: www.moviefonics.com
Nigel Clarke & Michael Csányi-Wills
March 2007
an idea to the fully orchestrated end product.
terial on which to comment. Periodically the
conductor for the score Robin Page called in
to see how the score was progressing and
pass useful comments. A highlight of any
film score is working with live musicians – in
this case we were privileged to record the
score with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
and added Scottish flutes played by the wonderful
Francesca Hanley. Another musical
highlight was recording the title song of the
film with Mae McKenna who brought a real
authentic Scottish flavour to the film. The
project took five weeks from the first germ of
ORIGINAL MOTION
PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
THE
ROCKET
POST
ROCKET
POST
THE
ROCKET
this project. Every few days Mark and music
supervisor Alison Wright stopped by our studio
to hear our ideas. As with all our scores
we made synthetic demonstrations of all the
cues which gave both Mark and Alison ma-
put in place Alison Riva as music adviser for
A NOTE FROM
THE COMPOSERS
As so often happens when scoring films, one
day you do not know it exists, the next day
you are working every hour under the sun.
This was the case with The Rocket Post. After
a phone call from our agent, we met the
film’s producer Mark Shorrock and two days
later we were working around the clock.
Nonetheless, it was a pleasure to do so as the
film has an abundance of romance, beauty
and drama set against the backdrop of the
Western Isles in Scotland. Sadly the director
Stephen Whittaker had passed away before
we were brought on board. As a result, Mark
MUSIC BY
NIGEL CLARKE &
MICHAEL CSÁNYI-WILLS
PERFORMED BY
THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Thematic,
romantic,
orchestral...
British composers Nigel Clarke and Michael Csányi-Wills
has composed a wonderful score for The Rocket Post,
a romantic orchestral work filled with memorable themes
and exciting dramatic writing – performed by the legendary
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and featuring a beautiful song,
“Distant Shores”, sung by Mae McKenna.
Available on CD and online now!
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