Decca Records have released the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for Downton Abbey: A New Era, scored by composer John Lunn. The soundtrack retains the distinctive sweeping orchestration and title motifs from the Emmy Award-winning series whilst celebrating the story’s entrance to a new decade with 1930s swinging Jazz and embracing the glitz of early cinema.
Scottish composer John Lunn has received two Primetime Emmy Awards and two BAFTA nominations for his scores for Downton Abbey. Classically trained yet contemporary in attitude, he combines a highly intelligent and sensitive approach with a sound that always hits at the emotional heart of a piece. Other television work includes ITV/PBS’s Grantchester, The White Queen and The White Princess, Shetland, The Last Kingdom and To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters.
Of the new soundtrack, Lunn had the following to say:
“I’ve been working on Downton Abbey now for over ten years, but this is the soundtrack that I’m probably most proud of. It’s been a joyous return to working with the director Simon Curtis, we had previously worked together on Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, and he seems to bring the best out of me. Along with reworking familiar and well-loved themes, the new storylines have opened up a whole new vista for me.”
Downton Abbey: A New Era Tracklist:
1. A New Era (focus track)
2. Kinema
3. Côte D’Azur
4. Guy
5. All Aboard
6. The Handsome Mr. Barber
7. Crazy Rhythm (incl vocals by CHERISE)
8. The Gambler
9. Le Chapeau De Carson
10. That I Do Remember
11. First Draft
12. Am I Blue (incl vocals by CHERISE)
13. Then You’re In Luck
14. Violet Mon Adorée
15. Good News, Bad News
16. The Last Farewell
17. Cortege
18. Next Generation
19. Downton Abbey – The Suite
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