Mutiny On The Bounty – SOUNDTRACK****

Theme/Portsmouth Harbour/Storm At Sea/Girls & Sailors/The Mutiny/Love Song/Leaving Harbour/Arrival In Tahiti/Pitcairn Island/Love Song/Outrigger Chase/Native Festival Music/Christian’s Death

The historical drama movie Mutiny On The Bounty starred Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard. The evocative soundtrack was composed and arranged by Bronislau Kaper. (US:14)

"Kaper's use of South Seas rhythms and chorus, along with familiar English melodies, add authenticity to the seafaring saga that moves from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific."

"Like the movie for which it was composed, Kaper's Academy Award-nominated composition is brash, thrilling, tense, playful, reflective and dynamic." "Kaper's score cannot be faulted. There is so much more beyond the striking and memorable main theme: among the delights are motifs and melodies of symphonic power, sea shanties, authentic Tahitian music and more."

"Its crowning glory is Bronislau Kaper's masterpiece of a score - one of the greatest ever written and one of the most magnificent recordings of a score ever done." "There is so much to assimilate in this recording, the majesty of the overture and main title (with chorus) sets the mood for great adventure and heroism."

"The score's love theme, known as Follow Me in its choral setting, is also one of the great themes of the 1960s and is beautifully used within the film."

"Bronislau Kaper's soundtrack for Mutiny On The Bounty is nothing short of magnificent. In fact its simply phenomenal, outstanding, superb, extraordinary and every adjective imaginable that denotes greatness."

"The love theme Follow Me is both beautiful and haunting, presented as an instrumental, sung in Tahitian and English. All through the movie, the music is the perfect complement to what we are seeing on the screen."