Three time Oscar winner Maurice Jarre has died at the age of 84. One of the last of the old school of film score composers, his catalogue of work covers over 150 films spanning half-a-century and includes some of the greatest scores to grace the movies that include, The Longest Day (1963), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Grand Prix (1967), A Passage To India (1984) and his seminal work Lawrence Of Arabia (1962). The latter was re-recorded by Silva Screen in 1989 (FILMCD719) and featured over twenty minutes of music music that did not appear on the original soundtrack album. It remains one the most enduring items in the catalogue and twenty years later is still a bestseller alongside The Essential Maurice Jarre Film Music Collection (FILMXCD324) from 2000.

Rambo makes its small screen debut on Sky Movies Premiere on Sat March 28th. Brian Tyler’s thunderous score incorporating elements of Jerry Goldsmith’s original received a very warm welcome from fans of the film. Monster’s Ball is also showing on the same night on Channel 4. The award winning film features a masterful score from the famous advertising duo Asche & Spencer. The soundtrack also includes four original songs: The Jayhawks -I’m Your Man, Red Meat- Broken Up and Blue, Jimmie Dale Gilmore- Your Love is My Rest and Jean Wells- I Couldn’t Love You (More Than I Do Now). Starring rappers Mos Def and Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs.

Channel 4 will be giving Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning film The Departed its terrestrial TV premiere on Sun March 15th at 10:00PM. Howard Shore’s acoustic themed score features a stunning quartet of versatile guitarists, Sharon Isbin, G.E. Smith, Larry Saltzman and Marc Ribot and was hailed by Rolling Stone as, “Vital, visceral filmaking, indebted to Howard Shore’s evocative score” . The CD and download album is available to buy now from www.silvascreenmusic.com now.

What If Magazine have picked Silva Screen’s Doctor Who Series 4 as one of the top soundtracks to own in 2009.
“Gold’s work with the BBC orchestra (conducted by Torchwood composer Ben Foster) bring[s] a big screen majesty to our favorite Galifrean’s sound”. What If Magazine also highlights the accompanying booklet which breaks down the “CD’s copious tracks for WHO fans” and includes an exclusive interview with Murray Gold and Ben Foster.

Silva Screen will shortly be releasing the music to the centrepiece of Channel 4’s winter drama – Red Riding. The trilogy of interlinking films are based on David Peace’s crime thrillers set against the background of Yorkshire in the 1970s and 1980s, a time of fear, distrust and the grisly reign of the Ripper murders. The three films titled 1974, 1980 and 1983 feature music from some of the best composers from the film and TV world. Adrian Johnston has been BAFTA nominated for The Lost Prince, Tipping The Velvet, Perfect Strangers and Our Mutual Friend and won an Emmy for Shackleton. He has written for over 20 feature films including last year’s lavish production of Brideshead Revisited. Dickon Hinchliffe was a founder member of The Tindersticks, his multi-instrumentalist talents and string arrangements adding a lush sheen to their unique sound. Barrington Pheloung is a composer, conductor and performer of international renown with an immense catalogue of film and TV music. He wrote perhaps one of the most instantly identifiable themes in small screen history, Inspector Morse, as well as all the music for the 33 episode series.