CD REVIEW - WE FIGHT TO BE FREE

We Fight to be Free
Music by Trevor Jones
Contemporary Media Recordings CMR-2007-5
7 Tracks 20:47 mins

This latest release on the CMR label features Trevor Jones' symphonic score for the 24-minute documentary that introduces visitors to the tour of George Washington's Mount Vernon home. Basically, the film concentrates on a re-enactment of Washington's crossing of the Delaware.
Jones' score, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Geoffrey Alexander, with subtle support from Neil Stemp's synthesizers, alternates between dramatic cues, some grim and determined, others proud and noble, and lighter, period-sounding pieces for the more peaceful interludes, culminating in the lengthy, powerful "Frontier Battle" and the subsequent "Father of the Nation," which after Jones' own piano performance of Scarlatti's Sonata in B minor, brings the score to a suitably momentous finish, briefly referencing "The Water is Wide" along the way.
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