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Brideshead Revisited | 
 enlarge | Creator: Geoffrey Burgon
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music
Buy New: $18.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 48761
Format: Soundtrack, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 094632136725
EAN: 0094632136725
ASIN: B000006UQ9
Release Date: January 24, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Brideshead Theme | | • | Going to Brideshead | | • | The First Visit | | • | Venice Nocturne | | • | Sebastian's Summer | | • | The Hunt | | • | Sebastian Against the World | | • | Julia in Love | | • | Julia | | • | Rain in Venice | | • | General Strike | | • | Fading Light | | • | Julia's Theme | | • | Sebastian Alone | | • | Orphans of the Storm | | • | Finale |
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Album Details
Originally Released in 1981, this Soundtrack features 16 Beautiful Orchestral Tracks by Acclaimed Composer Geoffrey Burgon. The CO-BBC-PBS Series Stars Jeremy Irons and Sir Laurence Olivier and is Set in the Early to Mid-Twentieth Century English Countryside and Focuses on the Aristocracy that Lives There.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Sebastian, this is your music November 27, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I saw Brideshead Revisited for the first time, I was immediately captivated by this music. These themes are rich of sentimental emotions, and absolutely suitable for this tv. series. I can not imagine B.R. without them. They were born for it.
Burgon's idiosyncratic brilliance is brilliant November 16, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
For me, the stand-out tracks are JULIA'S THEME and SEBASTIAN AGAINST THE WORLD. In BRIDESHEAD THEME, it's a borderline-thrill to hear that bassoon putt-putting all over the place in the background. The second part of GOING TO BRIDESHEAD has that brilliant suspended-string shtick. VENICE NOCTURNE has a slow hypnotic quality that reminded me of John Barry. The end of THE FIRST VISIT is also Barryesque. In JULIA, the harmonic tension between the woodwinds and the strings is admirably modernistic.
My favorite passage is near the end of SEBASTIAN'S SUMMER. An oboe passage, backed with a brilliant ascending violin figure, and with the violas doing a slow trill.
 wrong listing! October 2, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
the CD has the list for the soundtrack, not this anthology!
 Brideshead reviewed September 7, 2003
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
When I bought this CD, it was the Brideshead theme I was after. It's there, but be warned that it's only 2:00 minutes long.
Nearly all the tracks are fairly short with an average track time of 2:31. Each track is a piece of music intended for a certain situation or part of the story. Which doesn't really give you the time to sit back and soak up the moods in the same way as with non-soundtrack classical music. About half of the tracks contain the Brideshead theme in more or less obvious forms. I think you would have to remember extremely well to recollect most of the tracks apart from the Brideshead theme. I still recommend the CD and consider it worth it's money. A must have for anyone who loved the series. If only for the Brideshead theme which still nearly knocks me over.
Finally May 7, 2002
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have cruised the INTERNET for years looking for a CD such as this (I have the LP but it is worn out from being played so much) . What a wonderful surprise. The music makes tears come to my eyes.
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