Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Silva Screen*****

With his score to the much anticipated film version of John Le Carre's spy novel, Alberto Iglesias's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spyrecalls Geoffrey Burgon's elegiac music to the landmark 1979 BBC TV series and reimagines the noirish conventions of spy film scoring. With its unresolved themes and dynamic instrumentation, his elegant musical tapestry of subtle rhythms and exquisite colours (notably solo piano and clarinet) goes beyond traditional character and thematic scoring approaches to create a pervasive and haunting atmosphere of menace and paranoia. The Spanish composer ( Che, The Constant Gardener, The Kite Runner) delicately weaves sinuous melodic lines and pulsing electronica with spare orchestration to produce an evocative score of surprising drama and suspense. See silvascreen.com

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