Amazon.co.uk Review
Another imaginatively realised classic from Hallmark Productions (from the
Miguel de Cervantes novel); another quality cast (John Lithgow as Quixote and Bob Hoskins as Sancho Panza); and another gigantic and absorbing musical score (from Richard Hartley who previously composed Hallmark's
Alice in Wonderland). Much of the music deserves to be characterised as romantic swashbuckle. The heyday of Errol Flynn's sabre is recalled in action music that leaps and lunges, the all-round passion of any number of Don Juans/Zorros in the Spanish guitar. In-between, quite a range of emotion is achieved in a predominance for strings. It's another extremely long album (these films rarely come in less than three hours), but magnificently avoids being overly repetitious. The romantic main theme appears in all manner of disguise, but doesn't overstay its welcome in the least. Perhaps its finest is during the all-important "Giants/Tilting At Windmills" cue. --
Paul Tonks
Album Description
This is the PROMETHEUS RECORDS CD release of Lalo Schifrin's sweeping orchestal score for the 1991 spanish produced epic mini-series of EL Quixote directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and starring Fernando Rey (Caboblanco & Jesus of Nazareth).
The score is a huge heroric orchestral effort in the grand style of the classic scores of Miklos Rozsa, Bernard Herrmann amd Alfred Newman.
The CD features over 44 minutes of the original score performed by the Madrid Symphony Orchestra.