StreamingSoundtracks.com - Watership Down

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Watership Down / The Beginning (Overture) Mike Batt	4:38	56
02	Bright Eyes (Stephen Gately) Mike Batt	3:55	135
04	On Watership Down (Folk Theme) Mike Batt	6:05	27
06	Military Theme And Development Mike Batt	5:24	24
07	The View From A Hill Mike Batt	3:24	21
08	Fantasia On A Flying Theme Mike Batt	6:48	90
09	Chase Adventure From Watership Down Mike Batt	5:44	22
10	Baroque Tune Mike Batt	0:35	16
12	Winter On Watership Down Mike Batt	6:37	24
14	A Kind Of Dream (Choral Fantasy) Mike Batt	6:19	103

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Watership Down (2000 TV Series Soundtrack)

By:	AdamR
Date:	23 Jul 2009
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Twenty years following the original Watership Down film, director Martin Rosen created a television series about the rabbits so descriptively written about in the book of the same name by Richard Adams. Mike Batt, who wrote the famous "Bright Eyes" song from the film version was hired to compose the score to the tv series.

Batt focuses on a new theme for the tv series centered around a love song titled "Thank You, Stars". This love theme is reprised in the score a few times, notably in "Fantasia on a Flying Theme". Batt didn't abandon his old popular tune as the Bright Eyes theme is heard many times in the score as well, and the soundtrack includes at least three vocal versions of the song, the most unique coming in a choral arrangement.

Overall, this score is extremely difficult to find. I was very lucky to chance upon a copy many years back for a reasonable price. While "Thank You, Stars" lacks the darkness and mysteriousness of "Bright Eyes", the lighter tone of the music better fit the target audience Rosen hoped to reach with this new adaption of Watership Down.

- Adam R.

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