Torchwood: Children of Earth OST Cover
The disc includes 40 tracks, 38 tracks divided between the five parts of the miniseries with the other two, the opening and closing themes, being sort of "bonus tracks."
Composer Ben Foster’s soundtrack to Torchwood: Children of Earth can be found in the US on Amazon. (Released August 11).
"I Can Run Forever"
"One of the best tracks from the Torchwood: Children Of Earth Soundtrack. Here is the end scene, with an isolated score. "
“Children of Earth,” the five-part miniseries that in essence, serves as the Torchwood's third (and perhaps final?) season with the stakes higher than ever for Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones. Veteran “Torchwood” composer Ben Foster (Dr.Who) rises to the occasion, capturing the apocalyptic tone on the Torchwood: Children Of Earth Soundtrack, set from the moment a malevolent force speaks through the "Children of Earth."
The soundtrack is split up according to each of the five parts in the miniseries, opening with “The First Sacrifice,” a haunting melody which starts out very similar to a soothing lullaby. Given that the miniseries initially centers on the world’s youth, this music is particularly fitting, instantly conveying a perversion of innocence that wends its way through the story.
Performed with energy and verve by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the score features an exquisite instrumental blend, the music often conveying a sense of danger looming with all-too-brief respites of great beauty. As each day passes the soundtrack grows more and more epic and intense with the three-note theme for the alien "4-5-6" used often to punctuate the story as it blows by like a runaway train.
Composer Ben Foster has put forth an inspired volume of work here, not just outstanding in its for its purpose to compliment but not overwhelm Children Of Earth, but in the fact that it stands alone as a complete listening experience.
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