Nicholas Nickleby


Colosseum (4005939643522)
Varèse Sarabande (0030206643527)
Movie | Released: 2002 | Film release: 2002 | Format: CD
 

Subscribe now!

Stay better informed and get access to collectors info!





 

# Track   Duration
1.Main Titles5:35
2.Journey to Dotheboys1:09
3.Dear Mr. Knuckleboy0:51
4.The Forest1:08
5.Smike by the Stove1:13
6.More Jobs for Smike2:10
7.Squeers Captures Smike2:00
8.You Are my Home1:02
9.Kate's Tears0:59
10.Fanny Music1:11
11.Ladies and Gentleman0:51
12.Poison Roots to You0:47
13.Nicholas Looks for Work0:59
14.Smike is Captured0:57
15."A Man Named Bray"1:16
16.Smike in his Room2:42
17.Journey to Devonshire1:18
18.Brooker0:59
19.Smike Dies2:25
20.Nicholas Proposes1:59
21.At Last I Can Say It1:12
22.End Titles6:40
 39:22
Submit your review

 

Nicholas Nickleby - 06/10 - Review of Tom Daish, submitted at (English)
It's one thing to have to say that it's frustrating when a composer doesn't seem to have anything new to say with each new score, but when you have to keep saying it over and over, it gets depressing and boring. Yes, you guessed it, Nicholas Nickleby is pretty much like every other Rachel Portman score and although that might not be a bad thing, it does mean that there isn't much new to say. The style of main theme on woodwinds with light, chopping string accompaniment; almost nothing new, but pleasant enough. After the tedium of Hart's War, this period drama based on the Dickens classic and starring the very upwardly mobile Charlie Hunnan and his implausibly blond hair (not that I can pass such comment on the subject of hair colour, but still), is a setting that inspires Portman to return to the style that won her an Oscar for Emma, but being Dickens, rather darker in tone than for Jane Austen.

The Main Titles duly introduces the pseudo folksy main theme with yes, you guessed it, a sprightly string ostinato as a foundation to the plucky woodwind melody. Through the score, Portman varies ostinato key from major to minor depending on how well things are going for the hero. The overall tone is a little more subdued than normal, but with enough pace to keep it from becoming somnambulant. There is a darker edge to many of the cues, but little of the intensity that other scores for adaptations of Dickens novels have attracted. There are certainly no big moments, the dramatic passages generally remain introspective with minimal instrumentation, only something like the Doyle inspired urgency of More Jobs for Smike bucks the trend.

The lengthy End Titles sums up the lighter material, for a perkier, but understated finale. Portman rarely pens a score that is anything less than superficially enjoyable and Nicholas Nickleby has enough incident and character to sustain its modest running time. Then again, anyone with more than a few Portman scores in their collection is likely to have something similar (and probably superior - Emma and War of the Buttons would be my suggestions), although for Portman fans, it's another charmer, like Nickleby himself I suppose.
This soundtrack trailer contains music of:

Merry Mendelssohn, Non-Stop Music (Trailer)




Report a fault or send us additional info!: Log on

 



More