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Mar 14, 2000 · Cider with Rosie by Geoffrey Burgon released in 2000. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Geoffrey Alan Burgon (15 July 1941 – 21 September 2010) was an English composer best known for his television and film scores. Among his most recognisable works are Monty Python's Life of Brian for film, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Brideshead Revisited for television, the latter two earning Ivor Novello Awards in 1979 and 1981 respectively.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1998 CD release of "Cider With Rosie: The Television Scores of Geoffrey Burgon" on Discogs.
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Discover the complete collection of recordings by Geoffrey Burgon, the English composer known for his iconic scores in film, TV, and classical music.
Geoffrey Alan Burgon died on 21 September 2010. He will be most remembered for two pieces of TV music: the magnificent striding title theme for Brideshead Revisited (1981), which has been arranged many times for various instrumental forces and the Nunc Dimittis from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979), which entered the charts.
Sep 24, 2010 · Appropriately for a Stroud-based composer, Geoffrey wrote the theme for the 1998 TV production of Cider With Rosie, as well as dozens of choral, piano, brass band, orchestral and vocal scores.
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One of the delights of this album is the reading by the late Laurie Lee, himself, recollecting his first sexual encounter - with Rosie. Cider with Rosie was screened on UK television over Christmas just past. Burgon's music evokes a quiet secluded English countryside that just about persisted through to the end of World War I and a little ...
