Track Listing

1. Doctor Who Season Four Opening Credits
2. A Noble Girl About Town
3. Life Among the Distant Stars
4. Corridors and Fire Escapes
5. The Sybilline Sisterhood
6. Songs of Captivity and Freedom
7. UNIT Rocks
8. The Doctor's Daughter
9. The Source
10. The Unicorn and the Wasp
11. The Doctor's Theme Season Four
12. Voyage of the Damned Suite
13. The Girl With No Name
14. The Song of Song
15. All in the Mind
16. Silence In The Library
17. The Greatest Story Never Told
18. Midnight
19. Turn Left
20. A Dazzling End
21. The Rueful Fate of Donna Noble
22. Davros
23. The Dark and Endless Dalek Night
24. A Pressing Need to Save the World
25. Hanging On The Tablaphone
26. Song of Freedom
27. Doctor Who Season Four Closing Credits

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2839 in Music
• Released on: 2008-11-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 76 minutes

Album Description
* A major highlight is the powerful new work for orchestra and choir, Song Of Freedom, which featured in the climactic scenes from Journey's End

* The Doctor Who Prom concert featuring music from the series was a major success and will be shown by the BBC later this year

Customer Reviews

Just gorgeous! Murray Gold goes epic
Like Bear McCreary, Murray Gold is getting better and better. The score for the new doctor has an interesting history. In the first half of the first series it was mostly incidental music with very little original material, it got a bit better in the second half and from the interviews with Murray Gold from that era it becomes clear he thought that this was as epic as it would get but we know of course he was dead wrong. From series two on, Murray worked extensively with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and its choir. The music now truly took off and sounded more like the score for some movie.The third series was less melodic and more experimental, yet it had some highlights. We have now reached the fourth series and with it we receive an intensely, harmonious and epic score that sweeps away with grand melodic structures that will take the breath away not only of Whovians but of any right minded music lover.

The score starts of course with the main theme of series four which is unfortunately maybe one of the few tracks I do not like. I really tried to get used to the new mix but I could never warm up to it. "A Noble Girl About Town " fits very well to the episode, since it was a light-hearted and slightly cheesy episode. "Life Among the Distant Stars " must also be from the first episode yet the tone is very different. It starts as a quiet, reflective piano piece with a tinge of sadness and yearning, that ends with a full orchestra. I am not sure when the track was used and in what context. I guess I have to watch the first episode again.

"Song of Captivity and Freedom" is the first time that the listener hears the "Song of Freedom" sung only by a single mezzo soprano. It gave me goosebumps. "UNIT Rocks" does exactly that and made me grin. It is simply the UNIT theme with some drums added. "The Doctor's Theme" returns and is yet another track that is just plain goosebumps material. I have to use a word that I have used now quite often and is true again. Epic just epic. In this version of the doctors theme it is not sung by Melanie Pappenheim but by a full choir. Those who have been lucky enough to get one of the Prom tickets or listened to it on the radio know that theme already. It was THE highlight. Together with "Song of Freedom"

"All in the Mind" is a curious track. It sounds like a little folk song with guitar and flute. Very different and again I have no clue when it was used. Very probably in "Silence in the Library". "Silence in the Library" is a track that is both mysterious and magical. Very fitting for the library world. The track "The Greatest Story Never Told" was exactly the music I was yearning to listen to since hearing it in "Forest of the Dead" and to hear it now made me cry. The orchestra and the choir. OMG. I have no words to describe this track properly. The way Murray works with the orchestra and choir is just fabulous. The theme of the doctor is woven in and even "All The Strange, Strange Creatures" is in the track! No idea why but I won't complain. The track soars and sweeps the listener from his/her feet.

"Midnight" is a classic horror track but of the kind I know from real horror movies, never from Doctor Who. Very well done, Mr. Gold. "Turn Left" is atmospheric and features a ghostly theme from the doctor over a synthesizer. "A Dazzling End" has something from "Doomsday" but is upbeat. I love the little track. The guitar, the beat, the way the whole orchestra revs up. I really have no clue from which episode the track is theoretically it should be from "Turn Left" too. "The Rueful Fate of Donna Noble" reminded me of Martha and her journey in the lost year. It features guitars and drums.

"Davros" is a a strange but fascinating track. Dissonant instruments, sampled electrical sounds all colliding with each other. It reflects Davros nicely. It is twisted, mad and not very wholesome. Time for the Dalek theme to return and it does on an epic scale with "The Dark and Endless Dalek Night". A very powerful and dark track. "The Pressing Need to Save The World" is a furiously, fast paced action track that would fit in any Bond movie but instead of Barrys Bond theme woven into it, we get instead (for some strange reason) the YANA theme aka "All The Strange, Strange Creatures" So I wasn't crazy. I did hear the theme from the Master. Why Murray Gold used that theme and not the doctor will be his secret. The track is never the less the most action oriented cue to this date in Doctor Who and it totally rocks!

For some strange reason "Hanging on the Tablaphone" makes me smile. It is a crazy, fast paced little affair and then it comes...."Song Of Freedom". I cried. I just cried. The track was already amazing at The Proms but with perfect mixing and editing this track became even better - if that is possible. I can listen to it over and over again ...this is actually true for the whole score.

Harry Potter was never that epic! The only other score I can think of as being this ...large... was "Lord of the Rings" by Howard Shore! It is a bloody shame that Oscars are not given to television shows. Murray Gold deserves for this score an Oscar, Grammy and Globe and will get none. It sucks. IMO Murray Gold should really write the score for "Deathly Hallows". He would do a great job!

It has been quite a while that a score has made me this insanely happy. If I could hug it, I would. A perfect five out of five for this one. None of the movie soundtracks or the Stargate soundtracks came even close to this perfection.

Murray Gold's done it again!
This album doesn't disappoint. Although I think I still prefer the series 3 album, there are some real gems on it and there isn't a single track I would skip on iTunes. In the CD jacket itself Murray Gold gives a sentence or two about each track, which is nice to read while listening to the album for the first time.
1) Doctor Who Series Four Opening Credits - the absolutely AWESOME new Dr Who theme tune, I loved it from the first time I heard it and couldn't wait to get my hands on it. 10/10
2) A Noble Girl About Town - a slightly jazzed up version of 'Donna's Theme', and fun to listen to. 8/10
3) Life Among the Distant Stars - not one of the best but pleasant to listen to, especially in the second half. 7/10
4) Corridors and Fire Escapes - generic "Doctor running" music, not one of my favourites. 5/10
5) The Sybilline Sisterhood - begins with some ethnic vocals which make for interesting listening and set the scene for the Pompeii episode. 7/10
6) Songs of Captivity and Freedom - this sounds like something you'd hear on Classical FM. Lovely. 9/10
7) UNIT Rocks - a newer version of the first album's 'UNIT' track. 7/10
8) The Doctor's Daughter - gets good towards the end. 7/10
9) The Source - there's a really powerful tune in this that starts up about halfway through, it keeps playing in my head. 9/10
10) The Unicorn and the Wasp - this one really brings back memories of the episode it was used in (the Agatha Christie one), although it isn't one of the best. 6/10
11) The Doctor's Theme Series Four - I'll always love the Doctor's Theme from the first album best, but this is still a great track. Beautiful choral chanting. 9/10
12) Voyage of the Damned Suite - contains a real range of tunes and mood. Some of the vocals even remind me a little of the vocals in Titanic, which does make me laugh. 8/10
13) The Girl With No Name - one of the less memorable tracks for me. 5/10
14) The Song of Song - another of the less memorable tracks. 6/10
15) All in the Mind - an odd, psychadelic-like track. According to the CD jacket it wasn't used much in the Library episodes. 5/10
16) Silence in the Library - another track that takes you right back to the episodes it was used in. 7/10
17) The Greatest Story Never Told - music that kept popping up through the second half of the series, or so the CD jacket says, since I don't actually have much recollection of it :S. There's lots of great choral chanting on this one. 9/10
18) Midnight - I didn't enjoy the Midnight episode that much, and the same goes for this track. 5/10
19) Turn Left - One of the darker tracks, with some haunting vocals borrowed from the original Doctor's Theme. 8/10
20) A Dazzling End - this track plays during Turn Left when Donna diverts history, and it's one my favourites. I still have it playing in my head! Wicked listening. 9/10
21) The Rueful Fate of Donna Noble - this is one of the tracks I remember best from the series. Very melancholy. 9/10
22) Davros - creepy music that's very fitting but not one my favourites. 6/10
23) The Dark and Endless Dalek Night - more dalek choral chanting. Catchy in a weird sort of way. 7/10
24) A Pressing Need to Save the World - Racy, adventure-ish music. 8/10
25) Hanging on the Tablaphone - a short sharp track. 7/10
26) Song of Freedom - definitely one of the album highlights (it was one of the pieces performed at the Albert Hall Doctor Who Prom). This is the music that plays when the TARDIS is towing the Earth back home, and it's got a very triumphant feel to it. 9/10
27) Doctor Who Series Four Closing Credits - a slighter longer version of the Opening Credits track. 10/10

Unsung Hero
As a reviewer mentioned before, the previous Murray Gold scores for Doctor Who are always on my Mp3 player. By a long way, the best score for any TV show currently on (UK or US). So good, that it feels cinematic. The growth from Series 1 (not my favourite) to the epic sounds in the Series 3 soundtrack are astonishing. Series four topped it all. The new Doctor Who Theme (sends chills down the spine with all the new drums and horns), the thrilling finale to Turn Left and of course the Song For Freedom are the highlights for me, but nothing here is just padding.
If the proposed big screen Doctor Who goes ahead, it simply wont work without Murray Golds' input. Listen and love it and enjoy every episode again and again....