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Composer:
John Barry
Catalogue Number:
467 864-2 DH
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Main Title
Where Does One Pee?

TRACKLISTING
1. Main Title
2. Where Does One Pee?
3. Police Chase
4. The Quarry
5. Tom Explains Enigma
6. Is That What Happened?
7. Wigram Arrives
8. The Convoy
9. Waiting for Signals
10. Tom Goes to Cottage
11. She Moved On
12. Simply Wonderful/Finding Crib
13. Trip to Beaumanor
14. At Beaumanor
15. The Train
16. Goodbye to Hester
17. Puck Dies
18. London 1946
19. End Credits
20. The Black Bottom (De Sylva/Brown/Henderson)
21. You'll Never Know (Warren)
22. Dives & Lazarus (Vaughan Williams)

Members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conducted by John Barry

Bunny Berrigan and his Orchestra (20)
Anne Shelton with Ambrose and his Orchestra (21)
The New Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth (22)

 

DIRECTOR'S NOTES
John Barry was born to score this movie. Whichever way you look at it, he's paid his dues. As a boy in Yorkshire during the second World War, his town and school were bombed by the Germans; as a fledgling composer he pretty much invented “action” music with his 007 scores; and his later lyrical work has won him five Academy Awards.

So, when we were looking to bring music to Enigma with its complicated mixture of action, intellect and romance, John was our man. But he beat us to it — he got to us first. There was no disguising his passion for the subject and the period, of his sense that the story of the Bletchley Park code-breakers was as rich and heroic as any in this time of unparalleled national courage.

His task was to weave whole cloth out of the many intriguing and disparate threads, and to deliver, by journey's end, a feeling of joyous resolution. He had to deal with a director who babbled platitudes to him about keeping a sense of the 1940s, while wanting the score to be contemporary in its energy and timeless in its appeal.

If this wasn't enough, he had to make the music away from the familiarity and intimacy of the recording studio, in the vast public arena of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with musicians he'd never worked with before.

However difficult the challenges, this soundtrack is testament to the magnificence of John's response. I thank him for his labours, his wife Laurie for her encouragement and support, and his engineer, John Richards, who has the patience of a saint.

Michael Apted, director



 

 

 

 

 

ABOUT THE FILM

Enigma, starring Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Jeremy Northam and Saffron Burrows, is a romantic thriller based on the international best-selling novel by Robert Harris, directed by Michael Apted, and produced by Mick Jagger's Jagged Films and Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video.

Adapted for the screen by Tom Stoppard, Enigma is produced by Mick Jagger and Lorne Michaels. Executive producers are Intermedia's Guy East and Nigel Sinclair, Senator Films' Hanno Huth, and Victoria Pearman and Michael White. David Brown is co-producer.

Steeped in the atmosphere of wartime England, this mystery of codes and codebreaking, love and betrayal set inside Station X, the birthplace of the computer age, has much contemporary relevance in today's world of the Internet and computer hackers.

The Story
In March 1943 the code-breakers at Bletchley Park, Britain's top secret Station X, are facing their worst nightmare: Nazi U-boats have unexpectedly changed the code by which they communicate with each other and German High Command. An Allied merchant shipping convoy crossing the Atlantic with 10,000 passengers and vital supplies is in danger of attack. The authorities turn for help to Tom Jericho, a brilliant young mathematician and code breaker.

Unknown to his colleagues, Jericho has another equally baffling enigma of his own to unravel: Claire, the woman with whom he has fallen in love, has disappeared from Bletchley just when the authorities suspect there may be a spy at the Park.

To get to the bottom of both mysteries he enlists the help of Hester, Claire's best friend. Together they keep one step ahead of the secret services and investigate Claire's mysterious life, reaching a conclusion that uncovers international and personal betrayals.

Photos, Motion Picture Artwork and Artwork Title © 2001 Intermedia Films

CAST
Jericho - Dougray Scott
Hester - Kate Winslet
Claire - Saffron Burrows
Wigram - Jeremy Northam
Puck - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Logie - Tom Hollander
Leveret - Donald Sumpter
Cave - Matthew Macfadyen
Baxter - Richard Leaf
Proudfoot - Ian Felce
Pinker - Bohdan Poraj
Kingcome - Paul Rattray
De Brooke - Richard Katz
Upjohn - Tom Fisher
Skynner - Robert Pugh
Admiral Trowbridge - Corin Redgrave
Villiers - Nicholas Rowe

THE FILM-MAKERS
Directed by Michael Apted
Screenplay by Tom Stoppard
Based On The Novel by Robert Harris
Produced by Lorne Michaels and Mick Jagger
Executive Producer: Victoria Pearman
Executive Producers: Guy East and Nigel Sinclair
Executive Producers: Hanno Huth and Michael White
Co-Producer: David Brown
Director of Photography: Seamus McGarvey B.S.C.
Production Design: John Beard
Film Editor: Rick Shaine A.C.E.
Costume Design: Shirley Russell
Music Composed and Conducted by John Barry

COMPOSER'S NOTES
Nothing at present.

   
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