Creation Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2010 14 track CD.
Review:
Screen composer Christopher Young has a reputation for writing film
scores that are better than the films in which they appear, particularly when he
works in the horror genre. His work on director Jon Amiel's Creation, given the
subtitle “The True Story of Charles Darwin,” as heard on this soundtrack
album, answers the question of what he can do when he is given a more
prestigious project to work on. He has also been given a budget and used it to
employ an 80-piece orchestra. He uses these resources to create a score that
ties into the time period of the film. In particular, he is interested in
evoking the styles of Late Romantic and Post-Romantic concert music, especially
as purveyed by French composers who were near contemporaries of Darwin
(1809–1882), especially Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) and Debussy (1862–1918).
Allowed relatively long cues on this album, he develops his ideas in
contemplative passages with prominent single-note piano motifs complemented by
sweeping string sections. This is music meant to echo the ruminations of the
19th century genius who presented theories still reverberating in the 21st
century, even as the music it echoes provided the bridge from the Romantic to
the Modern eras.
All Music Guide – William Ruhlmann