The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular Returns To Melbourne In 2014

Music from Doctor Who, composed by Murray Gold, will feature in an amazing concert in Melbourne in 2014.

After a series of sell out concerts last year, the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular returns to Melbourne on 31st January and 1st February for performances with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

According to Helen Pendlebury from BBC Worldwide the concerts will be based on the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Proms which were held in London last month.

The music of Murray Gold will be accompanied by stunning visuals of the Doctor in action. The show will feature a look back at the previous Doctors and include some music their eras too.

"It's really special to be able to offer audiences the chance to experience this music as it was originally recorded," says Gold.

"We worked with a symphonic orchestra on both the iconic theme tune and the rest of the series score and to hear the music performed by such world-class orchestras as the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is a fantastic opportunity for music lovers and Doctor Who fans alike."

Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular
Plenary Hall, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 31st January 2014  and 1st February 2014
Bookings: 9929 9600 or visit mso.com.au

Doctor Who Series 1 And 2 Soundtrack: 12" Vinyl Release

Good news for fans of vinyl as Silva Screen will be releasing a double LP version of Murray Gold's music from series 1 and 2 of the relaunched Doctor Who. The 12" vinyl release contains music from Christopher Eccleston's tenure as the Ninth Doctor and from David Tennant's first series as the Tenth Doctor, and is limited to only 500 copies.

The tracks are performed by the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, conducted and orchestrated by Ben Foster, with additional vocals by Neil Hannon.

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Murray Gold - Doctor Who Series 1&2 Vinyl Dlp

Limited to only 500 copies, double LP in a gatefold sleeve.

This is the first release of music from the series revival and includes the acclaimed new version of the theme.

Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy) performs two songs, Song For 10 from 2005's Christmas Special and Love Don't Roam from The Runaway Bride, broadcast as the key BBC programme for Christmas Day 2006.

Murray Gold is one of the most powerful British composers working in film and TV with successes including Alien Autopsy, Casanova, Shameless and Mischief Night.

Over 75 mins of music from two Doctor Who TV seasons.

Tracklist

SIDE A
1. Doctor Who Theme – TV Version
2. Westminster Bridge
3. The Doctor’s Theme
4. Cassandra’s Waltz
5. Slitheen
6. Father’s Day
7. Rose In Peril
8. Boom Town Suite
9. I’m Coming To Get You
10. Hologram
11. Rose Defeats The Daleks
12. Clockwork TARDIS

SIDE B
1. Harriet Jones, Prime Minister
2. Rose’s Theme
3. Song For Ten (vocals by Neil Hannon)
4. The Face of Boe
5. UNIT
6. Seeking The Doctor
7. Madame de Pompadour
8. Tooth and Claw

SIDE C
1. The Lone Dalek
2. New Adventures
3. Finding Jackie
4. Monster Bossa
5. The Daleks
6. The Cyberman

SIDE D
1. Doomsday
2. The Impossible Planet
3. Sycorax Encounter
4. Love Don’t Roam (Vocals by Neil Hannon)
5. Doctor Who Theme – Album Version

The album is released on the 19th August. Click here to pre-order - Silva Screen will deliver internationally

Thanks to The Doctor Who Site

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Song For Fifty Lyrics

Doctor Who composer Murray Gold has penned a special song for the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who.
The song 'Song For Fifty' was premiered at the Doctor Who Proms over the weekend.
You can listen to the Proms here.

Here are the lyrics to the Song For Fifty:

As I stand here waiting for my time to come, I follow in your footsteps, I follow when you run,
From the jaws of disaster, from a planet besieged by deadly ancient foes,
And you still make me smile when you stop and turn and say: "This is a creature we can understand, a living being, it is just being, if we could find what's on it's mind then perhaps
We might survive."
And as we stumble down our slow road I can't but wonder what would it be like. 
To run away with you through time, where would we go who might we find. But on we go cutting our paths, only one way, one day at a time, while you embrace the universe, spinning your way on the fast road, limitless endless.
So my dear friend you're getting kind of old now (or maybe we are.) And now our children watch you do do the deeds we marvelled at wondered at,
From the jaws of disaster, from a planet besieged by deadly ancient foes,

It's not the end yet there is no end.

Fumbling and bumbling while all around is crumbling and stumbling through time like you're a mad man still it's humbling to watch you reconcile divergent creeds without succumbing to the lure of weapons,

force or greed you only use intelligence, jokes and charm.

Happy birthday. Doctor. You.

By Murray Gold

Murray Gold Talks BBC Proms And Composing For The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary

Murray Gold was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Front Row yesterday when he talked about scoring Doctor Who, his new composition for the 50th Anniversary and the thrill of having his music played as part of the BBC Proms. The interview also included clips of his earlier compositions, including Vale Decem, the song played during David Tennant's regeneration scene. He said of having his music featured at such as prestigious event as the Proms, 

"It's a great privilege. I think everyone who writes background music would like to have the same treatment."

Murray's new composition Song For 50 will be premiered at the concert on Saturday, a piece of music written in tribute to five decades of the Doctor. He says, 

"We thought it would be appropriate to write something to commemorate the birthday. It's essentially happy birthday to a lovely TV show. I think the last words are 'Happy Birthday Doctor You', which I'm sure the whole audience is going to mishear and say, 'You must never call him by that name!' But because I've been in the Royal Albert Hall with this body of music I know how people react, and it's a real privilege to be able to write directly for an audience that you know, so I wrote, effectively, a long song to speak for everybody in that room."

Murray finds it quite easy to imagine his score performed as individual, titled compositions.

"Something I've always done is I've tried to give something very memorable from the outset and play it enough times that it's stuck by the end of the first episode. 

"I like to have a slow, developing melody with a sense of triumph about it ...the idea of embattled people, in the case of the Doctor,not that he's embattled but he is a bit of a nerd - a bit like the way The Smiths would write anthems for the defeated. You want it to travel, you want it to resonate with as many people as possible as quickly as possible."

He has no idea who might be in line to take up the role of the Twelfth Doctor following Matt Smith's departure at Christmas.

"I'm just the organ-grinder. So long as they get good scripts, so long as it's full of heart and generosity, that's all that matters with the show - masses of imagination on top of a lot of heart and generosity"

Finally, he talked about working on the score for the 50th Anniversary special, some of which he did on a recent plane trip.

"I flew over and I had the 50th on my laptop and I did constantly check over my shoulder for any potential Doctor Who spies. But it was mostly stewardesses asking me what I was up to. I said, 'Oh, it's just a hobby!'"

Listen to the whole interview on BBC Radio 4's Front Row - the programme also includes a feature on Olivia Colman's new drama Run.

The Doctor Who Prom takes place on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30pm BST on Saturday 13th July and will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. You can listen worldwide here

The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special stars Matt Smith, David Tennant, Jenna Coleman, Billie Piper, John Hurt and Joanna Page. It will be shown on BBC One on Saturday 23rd November. Keep up with all of the latest news on our website

The BBC Proms Celebrate 50 Years Of Doctor Who - Listen Live With BBC Radio 3

Doctor Who returns to the Proms to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the popular BBC series. As well as showcasing Murray Gold's music from the past eight years, the concert also journeys back to the early days of Doctor Who and the ground-breaking work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Featuring special guests from the series, big screens and a host of monsters ready to invade the Royal Albert Hall, this is not the year to be exterminated!

Tune in on Saturday 13th July from 7.30pm - 10pm on BBC Radio 3.

Programme to include:

London Philharmonic Choir

Murray Gold Music from the Doctor Who series and other music from the series by Bizet, Debussy and Bach

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Ben Foster (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 16 July at 2pm.

AudioGo Release Kafka The Musical Starring David Tennant

AudioGo, the home of BBC audiobooks, have made Murray Gold's award winning radio drama Kafka The Musical available to purchase as an audio download from their UK site. The play starred David Tennant as Franz Kafka and was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2011. It has since won BBC Audio Drama Awards for both David (Best Actor, 2012) and for writer Murray Gold (the Tinniswood Radio Drama Award 2012 for Best Radio Drama Script). 

AudioGo say:

Murray Gold's new play starts from the suitably Kafkaesque premise that Franz Kafka finds he has to play himself in a musical about his own life. The play - or is it the musical? - introduces Kafka and the audience to some of the key characters in his life, Milena Jesenska, Dora Diamant and Felice Bauer. David Tennant stars as Kafka, in a performance that won him a "Best Actor" award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards. Music by Murray Gold. Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.

The play costs just £1.99 and is available now.

Click here to buy the download

The download is also available from AudioGo's US store priced $2.99

US customers: click here