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Inspector Morse, Volume 1 [Soundtrack]

~ Barrington Pheloung, Inspector Morse (Related Recordings)
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  • Audio CD (12 Nov 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Virgin
  • ASIN: B000026LVJ
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 64,457 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Main Theme
2. Oxfordshire Country Home
3. Overture From Die Zauberflote
4. K 620
5. Student's Death
6. Morse's Optimism
7. O Isis And Osiris
8. Potential Murder
9. Morse On The Case
10. Macabre Pursuit
11. Sad Discovery
12. Senza Mama
13. Hunt
14. Oxford College
15. Lewis
16. Gothic Ritual
17. Closing Credits

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Barrington Pheloung's stroke of brilliance in embedding the name of each episode's killer into Morse Code at the start never distracts from his wonderful "Main Theme". Of course the guitar leads, because that is the composer's instrument of choice. On this first volume it should be noted that there is only the original short version of said theme. The original pieces include an ambiguity for harp and strings ("Oxfordshire Country Home"), a contemplative piano's plodding ("Morse On The Case"), eerie wind effects backed by doom-laden strings ("Macabre Pursuit") and a piano and woodwind duet for the ever put-upon "Lewis". Suiting and soothing the detective's turbulent thoughts are the following classics: Mozart's Laudate Dominum and the "Overture" from The Magic Flute, Puccini's "Senza Mamma" and Mendelssohn's Lieder Ohne Worte, Op. 67. If you have the means to play it in a red jaguar, this album is a must. --Paul Tonks

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Collection That Evokes Place and Time, 25 Aug 2000
By bblack@squadronlaw.com (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
In 1994, I was fortunate enough to spend 6 weeks taking courses on the grounds of Balliol College, Oxford University. In that beautiful, halycon summer, I felt as if all my days were accompanied by Barrington Pehloung's haunting theme from the Inspector Morse series.

I had been a big fan of the series from the beginning, more than half in love with the paradoxally sensitive and irrascible Morse. But while watching the series, I found my *true love* in the City of Oxford itself. Morse without the dreaming spires of Oxford is like Holmes without his foggy, Victorian London... only a shell of his true personality. During my sojourn there, I found that Pheloung's music intimately captured that symbiotic relationship between person and environment.

Imagine my delight when I found the music of man and city available on CDs. I bought all three and have nearly worn them out. I really cannot review them individually (though Vol. 2 is the one I play most often), since it is the entire collection that contains the paradoxal nature of the man and City it captures. And, like that paradox, the music soothes and uplifts, makes melancholy and inspires. Always, it haunts my dreams and my imagination and vividly recaptures my entire Oxford experience whole and alive for me.

I have only to hear the first few bars of the evocative theme to be transported back to Oxford. I am again walking the narrow streets and admiring the sun-washed palantine stone of Oxford's glorious buildings. The memory shines through my darkest days and lightens winter gloom. I can catch, just from the corner of my eye, the glimmer of a red Jag rounding the corner of the Broad or see a glimpse of a greying head entering the White Horse Pub.

Even if you are not a Morse fan, or have never visited Oxford, Pheloung's work and the wonderful operatic and classical pieces contained in the collection have a beauty and clarity guaranteed to captivate any music lover. For me though, the three CDs capture everything I loved best about the City and the literary creation it gave birth to. I highly recommend the collection.

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