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Stuart Hancock’s lush score to BBC ONE’s thrilling fantasy action series.

Silva Screen Records will release a new soundtrack album for the BBC series Atlantis. The album features selections from the original music from the show’s second season composed by Stuart Hancock. The soundtrack will be released on December 11, 2015.
Starring Jack Donnelly as Jason, Mark Addy as Hercules and Robert Emms as Pythagoras, the cult series was created by Johnny Capps and Julian Murphy (Merlin) and Howard Overman (Misfits, Dirk Gently). The show follows the three main protagonists battling against Greek Gods and monsters. The series aired between 2013 and 2015 in the UK on BBC and in the U.S. on BBC America.

For the show, composer Stuart Hancock has penned 500 minutes of music to accompany a colourful mix of Greek myths, heroes and monsters. This original soundtrack album features music selections from the show’s second season.

Winner of the 2013 Jerry Goldsmith Award, Stuart Hancock is a versatile composer with a long list of film productions (One Night In Turin, One Week – Buster Keaton – new score, Gin and Dry), TV shows (London’s Burning, Creature Comforts, This Morning) and advertising campaigns (Burberry New York, the BBFC, Agent Provocateur, Camelot). Stuart is also known as a concert hall composer and in 2014 hisSnapshot Songs, a new song cycle for performance with full choral and orchestral forces was premiered at the Barbican Hall.

Stuart Hancock’s scores for short filmHawk and animation The Last Bellehave received critical acclaim. The score for The Last Belle was described by Movie Music Mania as “a compact work of pure, distilled charm”, whilst Soundtrack Geek comments on theHawk soundtrack being “a wonderful listening experience”.

CD: SILCD1506
Digital album: SILED1506

Release date: 11th December 2015

TRACKLIST

1 Atlantis Logo / Journey to Aegina
2 Medea Steals the Palladium
3 Cyclops!
4 I Do It For Love
5 Wise Old Eyes
6 What Is It We Fight For?
7 The Deserters Return
8 Lonely Ariadne
9 Telemon vs Jason
10 Who Is To Blame?
11 Approach of the Undead
12 Blood Offering
13 The Grey Sisters
14 Stymphalian Birds
15 Medusa Uncaged
16 Pythagoras Sneaks Away
17 Atlantis in Turmoil
18 Making Peace with Poseidon
19 The Sacrifice of Medusa
20 Pasiphae’s Revelation
21 Mission to the Silver Mines
22 Forest Fight
23 A Mother’s Love
24 Thrown into the Arena
25 Aeson and Son
26 Rumbled!
27 Pasiphae Confronts Medea
28 Violation of the Temple
29 Rot in Tartarus
30 Vision of the Future / Title Theme