Search - Trevor Jones :: Richard III: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album

Thought it was inventive and wonderful

Makoto Ueno | 11/09/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I loved the movie, from the big band song at the beginning to the Al Jolson at the end and I was captured by the dialogue. It was such a great movie that I was glad to get the soundtrack."

A Stroke of Genius

Makoto Ueno | Canoga Park, CA United States | 07/05/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This soundtrack is worth the buy if for nothing else but the second track. "Come Live With Me" is the first line of a popular love poem "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" written by Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary of William Shakespeare. Trevor Jones has masterfully adapted a majority of the verses of the original poem to a 1930s-era big band ballroom song, and he even included one verse from Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd", a poetic response to Marlowe's piece.



This blend of Elizabethan verse with early 20th century atmosphere is a perfect fit for the movie, and it serves as a brilliant accompaniment to the scenes leading up to Richard's first soliloquy."