Music Composed by STUART HANCOCK

Original score from the 2025 drama short directed by Max Burgoyne-Moore and Salvatore Scarpa, starring Tamsin Greig, Kevin McNally and Roy Taylor, produced by Slick Films, Plan Nine Pictures and Studio Goodluck.

THE STORY: A young Syrian refugee living in the UK without his parents decides to build a boat and sail home to find them.

THE SCORE: “The music is a meshing of east and west – Musa’s yearning theme is captured by the strains of the oud from his homeland, and his foster mother, the lonely widow Grace, by the sounds of a dirty Rhodes piano. Booming percussion and distorted pads accompany the tensions Musa encounters with the hostile locals, whilst the plaintive double-reed cor anglais, an instrument that straddles both cultures, gives us the sound “Largo”, the ramshackle boat that Musa turns in his perilous attempt to reunite with his parents. I was thrilled to collaborate and record with the London-based Syrian oud player Rihab Azar, whose performance gives the score an deep emotional connection to the story.” – Stuart Hancock

THE COMPOSER: Stuart Hancock is a British composer, known for his music for the BBC fantasy drama Atlantis, the Channel 4’s animated TV special We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and the Netflix comedy-horror Crazyhead. Stuart won an Ivors Classical Award in 2015 for his large-scale concert work Snapshot Songs, and has garnered considerable industry recognition for his commercial, documentary, TV and film music, including multiple Jerry Goldsmith Awards. Stuart, who studied at the London College of Music, maintains a varied composing career across all media. Raptures, his debut album of concert works, recorded with the BBC Concert Orchestra, was released in 2019. Last year, MovieScore Media released the multi-award winning score for Kensuke’s Kingdom, the label’s eighth album collaboration with Hancock.

SC25017 LARGO (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Release date: November 14, 2025

TRACKLIST

  • Musa’s Letter. 1:13.
  • Grace and the Locals. 2:11.
  • Largo. 2:39.
  • Like a Turtle in Its Shell. 1:36.
  • Setting Sail. 0:58.
  • Mama and Baba. 2:57.
  • Epilogue. 2:03.