Amazon.co.uk Review
This album contains not only 30 minutes of music from Geoffrey Burgon's score for the
Doctor Who serial
Terror of the Zygons, but also 46 minutes from
The Seeds of Doom, both of which stared Tom Baker as The Doctor.
Terror of the Zygons concerned aliens living beneath Loch Ness, while
The Seeds of Doom reworked the classic SF movie
The Thing (From Another World).
Burgon's scores employ flute, clarinet, harp, violin, cello, clavichord and percussion, together with electronic processing by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and numerous imaginative performance techniques. The result is a sequence of stark and weirdly unsettling soundscapes that instantly evoke memories of classic Doctor Who. Beyond the very occasional pastoral moment, melody is far away, making this a very different musical world to Burgon's Brideshead Revisited, yet sharing something in common with his acclaimed Requiem. The album tracks are taken from the composer's own listening copy of the original mono tapes, and while purists may object to the subtle stereo reverb which has been added, the sound is remarkably clear and detailed. The album also features Ron Grainger's familiar opening and closing title music. --Gary S. Dalkin
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