Basketball Love Soundtrack

Posted on November 09, 2011 by Admin
Basketball Love Soundtrack

Basketball Love Soundtrack

Ilan Eshkeri is an emerging talent in the field of orchestral film scoring, and many film music fans were enamored with his large-scale fantasy score for Stardust. However, others claimed his score was far too reliant on existing film and classical music for inspiration, with some collectors blaming temp-track love as a major detractor to the score.

His latest major score, The Young Victoria, raises few of these questions. It does, however, feature a large amount of existing classical music, adapted only slightly to serve as score material. This was reportedly a conscious choice by Eshkeri and the producers (and a smart one, given the film’s subject matter), but it also means that collectors will still have a difficult time recognizing Eshkeri’s own musical voice in the surrounding abundance of classical numbers.

Dominant Classical Presence in The Young Victoria Soundtrack

While Eshkeri’s own original material is attractive and memorable enough in its instrumental constructs and thematic development, it sounds amazingly simple and even diluted when heard immediately alongside the far more complex and richly orchestrated classical adaptations.