– The Composer’s Story –
Channel: BBC Radio 3
Date: Sunday, November 24, 2024
Time: 7:15 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Composer Debbie Wiseman created the score for the first BBC television series of Wolf Hall and she’s just completed work on the second part of the story, The Mirror and the Light.
With this Sunday Feature, Radio 3 gets exclusive access to every step of this remarkable creative process – from the very first experiments with phrases and themes in Wiseman’s home studio to discussions with series director Peter Kosminsky in ‘spotting sessions’ matching music and pictures. Along the way, Wiseman develops specific, subtle themes for the main characters and, most importantly, provides a soundtrack that reflects the mood of each scene and vitally, the inner turmoils of Thomas Cromwell himself.
Finally, the programme accompanies Debbie in the studio with her small orchestra of world class musicians and singers, as she conducts and records the soundtrack.
We hear from Damian Lewis – a musician himself – who plays Henry VIII, and from Claire van Kampen, the early music specialist, who arranges and oversees the in-vision music at the Tudor Court.
Soundtrack available from Amazon.
Source: BBC