Track Listing

1. All The Strange, Strange Creatures (The Trailer Music)
2. Martha's Theme
3. Drowning Dry
4. The Carrionites Swarm
5. Gridlocked Cassinis
6. Boe
7. Evolution Of The Daleks
8. My Angel Put The Devil In Me
9. Mr Smith And Joan
10. Only Martha Knows
11. Smith's Choice
12. Just Scarecrows To War
13. Miss Joan Redfern
14. The Dream Of A Normal Death
15. The Doctor Forever
16. Blink
17. The Runaway Bride
18. After The Chase
19. The Futurekind
20. The Master Vainglorious
21. Martha's Quest
22. YANA (Excerpt)
23. This Is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home
24. Martha Triumphant
25. Donna's Theme
26. The Stowaway
27. The Master Tape
28. Abide With Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1490 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Running time: 74 minutes

Album Description
The original music from Series 3 plus The Runaway Bride and Voyage Of The Damned.
Includes the songs `My Angel Put The Devil In Me' from "Daleks In Manhattan" and `The Stowaway' from "Voyage Of The Damned"

About the Artist
Murray Gold is one of the most accomplished composers working in television today, receiving BAFTA - Original TV Music Award nominations for Casanova, Vanity Fair and Queer As Folk, the latter winning the Royal Television Society Best Music Original Score. His fully orchestrated score for Doctor Who has been widely regarded as a major element in the revival of the much loved series.

Customer Reviews

A must-have for Doctor Who fans!
Doctor Who Original Music from Series Three

The Doctor Who music just keeps getting better and better. The album begins with the track 'All The Strange, Strange Creatures', an overall theme for the entire series. It's very fun to listen to. There are so many good tracks on this album, it's hard to pick a few and write about them. 'The Carrionites Swarm', 'Boe', 'Yana', 'Martha's Quest' and 'This Is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home' are the ones that stand out for me. They are epic and profound, and very addictive. A previous reviewer complained that the song 'My Angel Put The Devil In Me' (for the episode Daleks Of Manhattan') was sung by a different woman to the one who sung it in the actual episode, but I prefer the album version. A very enjoyable song to listen to. The other song on the album, 'Stowaway', is rather too Christmas-y and un-Doctor Who-ish for me but every album has its ups and downs. 'Blink' is different in its tone to most of the other tracks, but it's a chilling piece of music nonetheless (and quite sad, in a way, in the beginning). I can only hope a series 4 soundtrack will be released soon!

Great CD
This CD is great. It is a must - have item for all Doctor who lovers. It has all your favourite tracks from Series 3, "The Voyage of the Damned" and "The Runaway Bride". I have enjoyed listening to the CD since it arrived.

Goldsmith would have liked Gold
I edited a film music magazine for several years, and at the risk of name dropping was honoured to be invited to London several times to attend the recording sessions of several Jerry Goldsmith scores and Varese Sarabande projects. Goldsmith was always very reticent to talk about music - he felt it should really speak for itself - but he was always open about other composers, especially those he admired. A word he would often use was "musicality". Always intended to be the greatest compliment and a reference to both a high level of skill and understanding, "musicality" was a word he associated with Franz Waxman, Alex North and Bruce Broughton, and no doubt many others who never cropped up directly in any of my conversations.

Murray Gold has musicality in spades and, like Bruce Broughton, I'm fairly certain Jerry Goldsmith would have considered him a "very talented young man".

The first collection of cues on the Seasons 1 and 2 CD were good, as Gold found his footing within the framework of the new show, but this CD shows a confidence and assuredness of touch that surely marks him as a major force within the British TV industry (and don't forget, this has a legacy of composers such as Ron Grainer, Christopher Gunning and Laurie Johnson etc, who managed to make the transition to films fairly successfully - a fate that surely must await Murray Gold at some stage).

A lot of modern British TV scores tend to be underwhelming and bland, almost as if the composer is frightened to draw attention to themselves for fear of upsetting the writer or director by being as noticable as the words and pictures. Of course, good scoring doesn't do that - rather, the opposite, it enhances the emotional and narrative context and subtext. Gold's use of proper themes and, when warranted, the full power of the orchestra at his disposal is therefore refreshing, almost a harking back to the days of Denis King and the great Barry Gray.

There is nothing to criticise about the lack of Ron Grainer's iconic theme here, as it was featured prominently on the first CD, and besides, this is Gold's time to shine if you'll pardon the pun. And shine he does. While some of the action cues may seem a little overworked on occasion (the swollen choral chant for the Daleks in New York is perhaps the most notable example), Gold's ability to write and explore themes and motifs is simply stunning. Martha's theme is a delicate, slightly lonely and haunting affair, as she remains just outside of the Doctor's sphere of affection - although interestingly, such is her influence that it is her theme that provides the basis for the swashbuckling "Doctor Forever" theme, a grand and vibrant piece that wouldn't be out of place in a Korngold or Bernstein pirate score (oh, and the way the harp is used at one point is absolutely brilliant).

Other highlights are the chilling, atmospheric "Blink", evocative of Joe Hisashi's Mononoke Hime forest music and dripping with mystery, the percussive and bold "The Carrionites Swarm", and "The Master Vainglorious", a pounding and inventive take on the rhythm of the Grainer theme, with synthesisers adding musical madness to an already barking performance by John Sims.

And anyone who went to a UK cinema in the early part of 2008 will no doubt recognise the opening track, "All the Strange, Strange Creatures", a thunderous powerhouse based on a recurring action motif associated with the Doctor, here extended into what can only be described as one of the most exciting individual cues I've ever come across. On my iPod, this gets as many plays as the likes of Capricorn One and The Wind and The Lion - and if you know those scores, you'll know that no higher praise can be forthcoming.