Cutthroat Island (soundtrack)

The score for the pirate film Cutthroat Island was composed by John Debney.

The music was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, with choral contributions by the London Voices and was conducted by David Snell.

Although the actual film was a commercial disaster, the score has been praised for its style, reminiscent of the Golden Age Hollywood swashbuckling scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold^{[1] [2][3] [4][5]} and the symphonic scores by French composer Frédéric Talgorn. It has been noted as one of Debney's greatest compositions, alongside The Passion of the Christ. The score uses traditional orchestration backed with choir, a practice Debney considered necessary to avoid the music's sounding "too old fashioned" ^[6]

Particularly, conservative critics have considered this score as one of the best in the genre, unlike the music from Pirates of the Caribbean, which relied heavily in synthesizers and modern action score conventions ^[1]

1995 releases

Two CD's were released with the score in 1995, one of them by Silva studios ^[7] and another by Nu.Millenia Records ^[8] Both releases have the same tracks.

2005 Expanded Edition

Later, in 2007, Prometheus released a two disc Special Extended Edition, which added 40 cues that were left out of the previous soundtracks or weren't used in the film.^[3]

Disc One

Disc Two

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