Dario Marianelli

Jane Eyre Sony Music *****

Dario Marianelli is one of a select few composers who successfully combine Romantic motifs and post-minimalist tropes into film music of rare power and intelligence. His signature style is unabashedly melodic, pulsing with bold themes, exquisite instrumental colours and dynamic orchestration, yielding dramatic and lyrical scores as diverse as Atonement, Pride Prejudiceand Agora.Marianelli infuses his superb score for Jane Eyrewith a haunting emotional intensity and psychological complexity, developing the strong themes with delicate precision that maximises his spare orchestration (strings, woodwinds, harp, piano and Jack Liebeck's beautiful solo violin) to astonishing effect. A near-perfect expression of the angry longing at the heart of Brontë's novel, Jane Eyreis a magnificent score by Marianelli and one of the year's best. See focusfeatures.com/jane_eyre

Download tracks: Wandering Jane, The Call Within, An Insuperable Impediment