Track Listing

1. Overture
2. Sharpe's Theme
3. I'm Ninety Five Today - Band Of The Light Division
4. Over The Hills And Far Away
5. Spanish Sword
6. Rogue's March
7. Collier Recruit
8. Bird In The Bush
9. Colours
10. Shilling
11. Spanish Bride
12. Gentleman Soldier
13. Bugle Call/Money Musk
14. Broken Hearted I Will Wander
15. Badajoz
16. Rambling Soldier
17. Huntsman's Chorus
18. Italian Song
19. Johnny Is Gone For A Soldier
20. Forlorn Hope
21. Love Farewell
22. Sunset
23. Sharpe's Song

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1063 in Music
• Released on: 1996-04-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 52 minutes

Customer Reviews

Tams, doing his thing!
Before watching Sharpe I had never heard of John Tams, and quite frankly my music collection was the poorer for it! This album is a fantastic mix of score from the shows and traditional folk songs of the period performed by Tams and his mate Barry Coope with an amazing guest performance from the wonderful Kate Rusby. A must have for all fans of John Tams, Kate Rusby, Sharpe and great British folk music!

Nar x

Well worth listening to
It's perhaps not the best album you'll ever buy,but for Sharpe fans it's a must.
The arrangements are a bit different from the TV series, but so what. John Tam's rendering of 'Over the Hills' and 'The Spanish bride' are brilliant. Equally so the tunes covered by Kate Rusby.
I personally don't think the tunes by the military band add anything, but I still love the album. You can always use the skip button on your CD player!

Different in a good way
Ok so as other people have said, it isnt necerssarily true to the TV series, over the hills and far away loses some of its charm, however I still find this an excellent album.

The CD gives a good mix of folk and marching music, with some of the arrangements being very well produced. John Tams' music is excellent, and I found the Regimental/ Military music a nice change from the usual folk CD's. Collier Recriut sounds fantastic sung by Kate Rusby, likewise it was nice to hear the full version of Johhny's Gone for a Solider in its true form.

If your excpecting the music as it was on the TV you'll be dissapointed, however if you're willing to listen to it end to end it provides an enjoyable hour or so of easy listening and captivating music.

My one major critisism is the length of some of the songs, Gentleman Soldier to the tune of British Grenadiers would have been far better with a few instrumental versus or even the more tradition lyrics "Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules..." encasing it.

In short, buy it if your willing to listen to something a little different to everything else in your CD collection and dont mind modern instruments used to enhance old music.