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Dr. Who At The Radiophonic Workshop Vol. 3 - The Leisure Hive
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... and in the end the beginning...
Review date: 2004-11-22 Rating: 10 out of 10
THE 1980s: the beginning of end of DW's golden era and - though we didn't know it - the Radiophonic Workshop. But as synths replaced the warm valve magic of the 1970s wizard PETER HOWELL conjured one of the last great telly scores - deep, rich, widescreen and witty, and well able to stand alone from the drama it served. The shadows and light of that last, doomy TOM BAKER season are well-represented here with shimmering digital clarity. And the best bit's at the very end, with MARK AYERS' brilliant digital stereo remix of the original RON GRAINER theme - airy, scary and almost certain to herald in ECCLESTONE'S new era. The moment had been prepared for...
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Reviews
A sterile planet reborn to the sound of music
Review date: 2002-04-30 Rating: 10 out of 10
Hardly an ideal vacation destination (more like Sellafield than Scarborough, in Earth terms) but for the Doctor and Romana it will just a busman's holiday; murder, sabotage and a time experiment that does wrong. BBC Radiophonic Workshop's supremo composer Peter Howell has created a truly cinematic television score that John Williams would crave. Skillfully, its aural multi-laying echoes the hateful duplicity and menace that lurks around every corner and corridor, whilst sensitively revering the desperation of the dying world of Argolis. Like a chess-master, Howell employs key-moves to lighten the oppressive backdrop with hints familiar popular music ("I do like to be beside the seaside, beside the sea" breezes across Brighton beach as we see our Timelord asleep in a deckchair) and a superb pastiche of Ravel's emotive Bolero as the adventure reaches it climatic, yet hopeful, conclusion. Wonderfully evocative. In addition, presented here is, for me, the best arrangement of the DOCTOR WHO theme tune premiered during Tom Baker's final season as the Gallifreyan. However, for purists the bonus track is the first STEREO version of the original 1963 theme tune composed by Ron Grainer. Listen and choose for yourself.
A sterile planet encased in radioactivity comes alive.
Review date: 2002-04-26 Rating: 10 out of 10
Hardly an ideal vacation destination (more like Sellafield than Scarborough, in Earth terms) but for the Doctor and Romana it will just a busman's holiday; murder, sabotage and a time experiment that does wrong. BBC Radiophonic Workshop's supremo composer Peter Howell has created a truly cinematic television score that John Williams would crave. Skillfully, its aural multi-laying echoes the hateful duplicity and menace that lurks around every corner and corridor, whilst sensitively revering the desperation of the dying world of Argolis. Like a chess-master, Howell employs key-moves to lighten the oppressive backdrop with hints familiar popular music ("I do like to be beside the seaside, beside the sea" breezes across Brighton beach as we see our Timelord asleep in a deckchair) and a superb pastiche of Ravel's emotive Bolero as the adventure reaches it climatic, yet hopeful, conclusion. Wonderfully evocative. In addition, presented here is, for me, the best arrangement of the DOCTOR WHO theme tune premiered during Tom Baker's final season as the Gallifreyan. However, for purists the bonus track is the first STEREO version of the original 1963 theme tune composed by Ron Grainer. Listen and choose for yourself.
Product Details/Specifications
Artist(s):
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Recording label: BBC
Manufacturer: BBC
EAN: 0684911605228
Binding: Audio CD
Release date: 2002-03-18
Universal product code (UPC): 684911605228
Number of discs: 1
Disc 1 Tracks:
1. Dr Who: Opening Theme
2. Part One/Two The Leisure Hive
3. Part One/Two The Leisure Hive
4. Part One/Two The Leisure Hive
5. Part One/Two The Leisure Hive
6. Part One/Two The Leisure Hive
7. Part One/Two The Leisure Hive
8. Part Two/Three The Leisure Hive
9. Part Two/Three The Leisure Hive
10. Part Two/Three The Leisure Hive
11. Part Three/Four The Leisure Hive
12. Part Three/Four The Leisure Hive
13. Part Three/Four The Leisure Hive
14. Part Four The Leisure Hive
15. Part Four The Leisure Hive
16. Part Four The Leisure Hive
17. Part Four The Leisure Hive
18. Part Four The Leisure Hive
19. Part Four The Leisure Hive
20. Dr Who: Closing Theme
21. Argolis exterior planet atmosphere
22. Earth shuttle arriving
23. Generator hall
24. Boardroom
25. Hologram
26. Corridor background
27. Generator and screen
28. Tachyon drive engaged "Meglos"
29. The screens of Zolpha-Thura
30. Laboratory ascends
31. Dodecahedron energy beams "Full Circle"
32. Mistfall mist
33. Operating room
34. Starliner instrument panel
35. Doctor Who Theme (New stereo remix 2002)
Publishers: BBC