The soundtrack to the ITV drama The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe is out now. Listen here Enjoy!
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Ali & Ava in cinemas and Grace is released
10.03.2022
Ali & Ava is out in cinemas, at long last! And Grace (from the film) has also been released
Featuring the stunning voice of Karan Casey – enjoy!
Ali & Ava wins BIFA for best music
20.12.2021
Absolutely delighted to receive this award. Thanks to Clio Barnard for making the films she makes. And what a beautiful trophy…all made out of recycled plastic I gather. Thank you BIFA!
Uprising out now on BBC
19.07.2021
From award winning film makers Steve McQueen and James Rogan, a new 3 part documentary series about the New Cross Fire and the uprisings that followed will air over three consecutive nights on BBC One, from Tues 20th July at 9pm.
Listen to one of Harry’s pieces from the series:
Ali & Ava to premiere at Cannes 2021
08.06.2021
Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava has been selected for the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Looking forward to finally being able to share this beautiful film with everyone…
Roadkill wins BAFTA
07.06.2021Roadkill score wins the BAFTA for Original Music at this year’s television awards…yippee!
‘Uprising’ premieres at Sheffield DocFest
06.06.2021
The first instalment of Uprising, a 3 film series for BBC One, directed by Steve McQueen and James Rogan, premieres at Sheffield DocFest.
40 years on from the New Cross Fire, with remarkable testimonials from the survivors, investigators, activists and representatives of the machinery of state, these films look at the way Britain responded to that awful loss of life and at the momentous events that followed. The series will be on BBC One later this year.
Now showing on BBC One: Roadkill
16.10.2020
From acclaimed writer, David Hare, this four part political thriller follows the politician Peter Laurence (Hugh Laurie) as he seeks to further his own agenda whilst all around him plot his downfall. As the personal revelations spiral, he is shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, expertly walking a high wire between glory and catastrophe. With enemies so close to home, can Peter Laurence ever outrun his secrets to win the ultimate prize?
BBC One Sundays 9pm
Piano music from the series available here
Title theme from the series:
Soundtrack coming soon on Silva Screen Records
Retablo soundtrack released
17.01.2020
Hot on the heels of a BAFTA nomination last week, the soundtrack to this beautiful film is now available. Happy listening!
Greed Playing at London Film Festival
01.10.2019
In the latest film from Michael Winterbottom Richard McCreadie (Steve Coogan) is the king of the high street. Following a few wobbles with fraud investigations and to prove he’s still on top, he is determined to throw the ultimate celeb-filled 60th birthday bash. But as the guests start arriving – including mother (Shirley Henderson), ex-wife (Isla Fisher), and a daughter who’s shooting a Made in Chelsea-style reality show – ‘greedy McCreadie’s’ empire starts to come apart at the seams.
The film features some of Harry’s tracks – have a listen below !
Wild Bill Soundtrack Album Released
02.08.2019
Harry recently finished scoring the ITV drama Wild Bill. The series follows Bill Hixon as he relocates to the UK to take on his new job as Chief Constable of the East Lincolnshire Police Force. Starring Rob Lowe and Bronwyn James.
The Wedding Guest soundtrack released
02.03.2019
The Wedding Guest, the latest thriller from Michael Winterbottom and Harry’s 4th collaboration with the director is released in the US on 1st March. The film is an unconventional thriller starring Dev Patel and Radhika Apte scurrying across India and Pakistan. The soundtrack has been released by Madison Gate records and is available in all the usual places.
Happy listening! Listen on Spotify
Opus Klassik Award for Ora Singers
04.09.2018
ORA Singers have been awarded Best Ensemble of the Year (Choral) at the Opus Klassik Awards, for their Many are the Wonders album!
The Opus Klassik Awards are Germany’s leading classical music awards, organised by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) which is made up of many of the biggest names in the music industry including Deutsche Gramophone, Sony and Warner Classics.
Competition is stiff, and the past winners in all categories read like a who’s who of the classical music world. It’s a very large feather in their cap to have won such a huge accolade in only their third year – Congratulations!
Many are the Wonders features brand new choral works by:Richard Allain, Kerry Andrew, Ken Burton, Harry Escott, Frank Ferko & Alec Roth.
The full album is available on Spotify Itunes, Amazon and The Ora Website.
The Wedding Guest To Premiere At The Toronto International Film Festival
25.08.2018
The Wedding Guest, the latest offering from Michael Winterbottom, is to premiere at Toronto this year in the Special Presentations section of the festival.
Starring Dev Patel and Radhika Apte, The Wedding Guest begins with tantalizing intrigue. A mysterious figure (Patel) departs England for Pakistan. In one locale he rents a car, in another he purchases weapons. He soon arrives at his destination, where a young woman (Apte) is about to be wed.
Unfolding in trains, cars, restaurants, and hotels, in backroom black markets and backpacker beach resorts, The Wedding Guest is a perfect example of Winterbottom’s ceaseless curiosity. Nothing escapes his gaze.
This briskly paced thriller rarely stops to breathe, while Patel and Apte each work in their own way to reveal as little as possible while finding themselves helplessly drawn to each other.
Journeyman In Cinemas Now
18.04.2018Harry composed the score for Paddy Considine’s second feature Journeyman
Journeyman tells the story of middleweight boxing champion Matty Burton. As he approaches the end of his career he knows that he must make his money and get out of the game, to secure a home and future with his wife and baby daughter. After a titanic fight with the brash and controversial Andre Bryte, Matty collapses on his living room floor, a delayed reaction to a devastating punch. Awaking from the coma, the real fight begins. Suffering from memory loss and with his personality altered, Matty must begin to piece his life back together as his world disintegrates.
“The journey Matty goes on is ultimately one of acceptance, about identifying with what he used to be and coming to terms with what he is now ”
– Paddy Considine
Listen to two tracks below
Number One
Something Else
Journeyman is in cinemas from 30 March 2018
Journeyman played in the Love strand of the 61st BFI London Film Festival
Retablo at Berlinale 2018
18.02.2018
After making two highly successful short films, Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio’s debut feature, Retablo, receives its European premiere at The Berlin Film Festival. It was developed through the Sundance Feature Film Program Lab and screened at the 2017 Festival de Cine de Lima where it won the prize for Best Peruvian Film.
Here are a couple of pieces from Harry’s score to the film:
14-year-old Segundo lives with his parents in a village high in the magnificent mountains of Peru. His father Noé is a respected artist and Segundo’s role model. Noé hand-crafts altarpieces, decorated shrines for church and home, and is teaching Segundo the necessary skills to carry on in his footsteps. But cracks have developed in their close relationship because Noé is keeping a dark secret. With brutal honesty and saturated colours, the film peeks behind the facade of a seemingly intact village community where homophobic attidtudes enforced by patriarchal laws are carried out with remorseless violence. It sketches a visually powerful panorama of a world in which a young artist is searching for his niche.
Harry Escott and PJ Harvey Release New Track To Mark The Release of ‘Dark River’
09.02.2018
Harry Escott and PJ Harvey have collaborated on An Acre of Land, a new recording that is the theme to Dark River, the latest film by Director Clio Barnard. The entire film is also scored by Escott, who says: ‘recording PJ Harvey’s vocal on “An Acre of Land”, a song we wrote together for Dark River, was a spine-tingling experience.’
An Acre of Land is released on February 9th 2018, via independent label Cognitive Shift Recordings.
The film premiered at the 2017 London Film Festival from October 4th to 15th, and will be on general release on February 23rd, 2018.
Dark River to premiere at Toronto International Film Festival
31.08.2017
Dark River, Clio Barnard’s third feature is going to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this year as part of their “Platform” programme.
“One of contemporary British cinema’s most distinctive filmmakers, Clio Barnard follows The Selfish Giant and The Arbor with this searing and eloquent Yorkshire set drama exploring the fragility of familial relationships.
Inspired by Rose Tremain’s novel Trespass, Dark River follows two siblings as they struggle to come to terms with their inheritance, following the death of their Father. Fiercely holding on to a promise made long-ago, independently-minded Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns home for the first time in 15 years to claim family farm. Her grieving brother Joe (Mark Stanley) has spent years looking after their father (Sean Bean) and has scarcely kept the property afloat. Estranged for so long they can barely communicate, Alice soon incurs her brother’s wrath when she claims legal tenancy. As tensions mount, troubling memories surface and the real reason for her prolonged absence is revealed.” Clare Stewart – BFI
Harry Escott Scoring ‘Dark River’ and ‘Journeyman’
06.01.2017
Details for Harry’s projects for 2017 covered by Film Music Reporter – read more here.
A Wintry Playlist for LittleBlackBook Online
01.12.2015
“There is a permissiveness that starts to creep in at this time of year, corroding away at our better judgment. It reaches fever pitch a couple of weeks from now when…as with the Eurovision Song Contest or any James Bond film, we collectively experience a temporary taste paralysis.”
Read on and listen to a small selection of Harry’s musically mismatched seasonal baggage here
River Soundtrack out now
18.11.2015
The soundtrack to BBC One’s River is out now (many thanks to Silva Screen Records)
So, if you fancy reliving a little of the emotional drama or just want to make up your own story as this chap did, it’s available in all the usual places.
“Now this is exciting. I want to watch it now, the whole thing. The music is powerful and it makes me feel powerful. I am grateful for this music, as I honestly hadn’t expect it to have such power over me. It’s strange, but all kinds of wonderful when that happens because it doesn’t happen too often. There’s a sadness to this music which I can connect with somehow. It’s inspiring and quite beautiful. Now give it a try and see what kind of story it creates for you.”
Jorn Tillness – Soundtrack Geek Read full review
Now showing on BBC1 – River, starring Stellan Skarsgard
30.09.2015
Everyone’s favourite rumpled Swede, Stellan Skarsgard brings his big-screen charisma to a new police drama penned by Emmy Award winner Abi Morgan.
Harry says: “The care and attention to detail which the writer, producers and directors lavished on this show was both inspiring and intimidating. I knew I had to give it my all, which I did, and I am hugely proud to have been a part of it.”
Harry’s score for River is released on Silva Screen Records Friday 13th November.
The Face of An Angel Soundtrack
18.03.2015
The soundtrack to The Face Of An Angel is being released by Silva Screen Records next Monday, 23rd March. For those who like something physical, it is being released on CD and is available for preorder on Amazon, as well as being available to download. Here’s an interview with Michael Beek about the score:
Tout, Tout de Suite is Completed
Tout, Tout de Suite, a remarkable film by the acclaimed actor and director, Richard Berry, has, at long last, been completed. The film is an unflinching account of the kidnapping and torture of Ilan Halimi by the “gang des barbares” in 2006. More details about the premiere and release dates to follow shortly.
A short excerpt from the score can be found below.
The Face of an Angel at LFF
10.09.2014
The Face of An Angel is coming to London as part of this year’s BFI London Film Festival.
It will screen over the final weekend (18th & 19th October). To read more about this latest offering from acclaimed director, Michael Winterbottom click here
The Face of an Angel at TIFF
20.08.2014
The Face of An Angel, the latest offering from acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom is going to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this year as part of their “Masters” programme.
Inspired by the killing of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy, The Face of An Angel looks beyond the salacious headlines to explore both the media and the public’s obsession with violent stories, whether fictional or real. Thomas Lang (Daniel Bruhl) is a film director who is offered the chance to adapt a book by American journalist Simone Ford (Kate Beckinsale), which recounts the controversial trial of American student Jessica Fuller for the murder of her flatmate Elizabeth Pryce. To help with his research, Simone takes Thomas to Siena, where he is disturbed by the media frenzy that has developed around the case.
