Track Listing

1. Dawn
2. Stars and Butterflies
3. The Living Sculptures Of Pemberly
4. Meryton Townhall
5. The Militia Marches In
6. Georgiana
7. Arrival At Netherfield
8. A Postcard To Henry Purcell
9. Liz On Top Of The World
10. Leaving Netherfield
11. Another Dance
12. The Secret Life Of Daydreams
13. Darcy's Letter
14. Can't Slow Down
15. Your Hands Are Cold
16. Mrs. Darcy
17. Credits

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #390 in Music
• Released on: 2005-11-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Amazon.com
The year 2005 was big for Italian composer Dario Marianelli. His score for The Brothers Grimm received much applause (probably more than the film itself) and a few months later he came back with another batch of compositions for a period film. This time around, the plaudits are reversed: The film is better than the score. And that's not the only reversal: Since several of his compositions were to be performed by some of the characters on screen, Marianelli wrote parts of the music before the movie was shot, switching the order in which these things are usually done. The onscreen pieces are for solo piano, and Marianelli got a huge leg up by having them played by famed classical performer Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Marianelli was instructed by director Joe Wright to think along the lines of Beethoven (tall order!) but unlike The Brothers Grimm, which cleverly mixed and matched its classical influences, Pride & Prejudice fails to acquire a personality of its own. A few tracks, such as "Arrival at Netherfield," even border on George Winston territory. The intervention of the English Chamber Orchestra usually helps, but overall the score's palette sticks too much to a monochromatic beige. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews

love this soundtrack
This is my most favorite movie and to find the soundtrack was awesome I so love this music!

A Great Score?
Am I listening to the same soundtrack as everyone else? I found the score of this film amazingly bland with each track having an average running time of 2 minutes. There's no substance, very little style, and at times is unbearably slow. What little color is there is very thin and pale and the "orchestra" (made up of perhaps five instruments) seem to just peddle along in a quick vignette without any time to reach a climax. I understand that this is a Jane Austin film and am not looking for a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" theme, but similar period films have been able to achieve soft music with depth, emotion, and substance. After hearing the first few tracks I was unbelievably bored and could hardly force myself to finish the CD. I'm definitely passing this one up for a "real" movie score. This hardly qualifies!

Pride and Prejudice sound track
I was amazed at how fast Amazon mailed my CD to me. The CD it's self is great. Thank you.