How about a Throwback Thursday? I should probably make sure I post some new music in between throwbacks, so maybe this will be a not every week event (specially as I’m mired in writeups at the moment), but this sounds like fun.
This is a piece of film-style music from … March 2008!
“Sire,” said the Eagle, “when you have heard my news you will be sorrier of my coming than of the greatest woe that ever befell you.” The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis.
Sad, bleak, empty… I wrote this and I think one other piece for this “score” – there’s a snippet of the bad guy theme from that at the end of this. Featuring live oboe (I think that bit at the start with the rising phrases and the silences and the squishy strings and sadness is my favourite part?), and alongside the Nice Orchestral Sound Library, some particular free soundfont percussion I remember with great fondness.
You know what, yes, this does absolutely make me miss writing big Hollywood type film scores. I’m going to do that again sometime.