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Music and film have had something of a symbiotic relationship since the dawn of cinema, but the film score as we know it today was really born in 1933. There have been some pretty memorable musical scores written for the movies over the last 90 years, but here’s our ranking of the 20 best movie scores of all time… <\/p>
The actor Laurence Olivier and composer William Walton<\/a><\/strong> worked together on several Shakespearean films, including Hamlet<\/em> and Richard III<\/em>. Henry V<\/em>, a film that was commissioned by the Ministry of Information to help the war effort and was shot in Technicolor, remains one of the finest that they collaborated on and its score received an Oscar nomination.<\/p> The stirring film gradually leads the audience from the confines of the Globe Theatre out to the fields of the Battle of Agincourt where Henry (Olivier) triumphs. The score has plenty of period feel, from brass fanfares<\/a><\/strong>, drumming and unusual modal harmonies. Walton even drew upon Auvergne folksongs for his theme for the French princess, Katharine. Walton told Olivier that the film would have been \u2018terribly dull\u2019 without the music.<\/p> Essential Recording:<\/strong> Henry V \u2013 Suite<\/em> Philharmonia Orchestra\/William Walton Warner Classics<\/em><\/p>