Brideshead Revisited (ITV 1981) theme.
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Published 2010-05-08
All Comments (21)
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This is without question the best theme music of any television series. Everything from the book the television play and the acting was just classic never bettered.
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Sensational. Possibly the greatest TV series ever. Words, music, looks.
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One of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. The music, like the drama itself, remains in a class of The highest standard all on its own.
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As just about every reviewer has said the theme music written for “Brideshead Revisited” is the greatest piece of hauntingly beautiful music ever created for any television production. The TV adaptation of the book itself was equally wonderful. Casting, filming and acting were all stupendous.
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There is something quite extraordinary that overcomes me when I listen to this theme, and think of that TV presentation, that I eagerly looked forward to watching every week. It's a feeling of a time lost, that didn't seem important then, but has become a reflection of some of the best times of my life. And I don't, or wont admit to myself, why?
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Ever since seeing this series for the first time recently, it's absolutely haunted me, I cannot shake it. The music, the story, the series, just beautiful. The music is enough to bring me to tears and this particular piece tends to, it's beauty carries me away.
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The most classiest TV series ever
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Its a series and story that never could be repeated, brilliant.
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Call me dinosaur, but such a series was never made before, and will never be made hereafter. Music, setting, narration, acting, historical dimension, you just name it. See how beautiful in an incomplete way the bygone, old world can be and, still, we carry the resemblance of it with us.
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Beautiful music for a beautiful realisation of Waugh's great novel. And Geoffrey Burgon also produced some fine music for the 1979 BBC TV production of John Le Carre's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy". And still some folks think background music matters not...
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The written word, and the musical interpretation of it, have never been more beautifully expressed than this. Every moment of this echoes Waugh's novel, and its television adaptation, to perfection. We live in an age of dying romance. Thank you for posting this.
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....so beautiful!! Everytime I see an image of the beautiful Castle Howard I want to be there, I feel I belong!
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ich lebe dieses film sehr...mein liebling film
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Magnífica obra, para una majestuosa producción, de un maravilloso libro, tuve la oportunidad en los 80´s de disfrutar la serie y leer y releer el libro diez veces en el recorrer de 35 años, es un verdadero ensueño. Exquisita, me mueve recuerdos y sensaciones increíbles.
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This is part of my beautiful youth
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Thank you for posting this piece. I see I am in good company, and I endorse the comments of the many who have gone before. The book, the music & the '81 adaptation changed my life, too. Like Antony Blanche, let's drink a Brandy Alexander or 6 to sweet melancholy.
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Jeremy Irons has been one of the greatest actors this country has ever produced.
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Well done adaptation of a classic British novel. Certainly got a lot of people interested in the works of Waugh, myself included.
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Yes I modified some stills using photoshop. Mainly because I think it gives a nice effect thats a bit different than photographs. But also, for some reason, a sketch or painting seems to be more nostalgic than a clear photo is, and looking back to the lost past is what the story is about really. Charles Ryder is also a painter, so I thought that was another appropriate link.
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I think the previous post sums it all up quite beautifully. Something very special happens rarely,something this good simply won't ever be repeated nor should it be really.
