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Australian pop musician and producer turned film composer David Hirschfelder garnered an Academy Award nomination for the impressive pop and classical musical alchemy he conjured up for Shine. For Elizabeth (director Shekhar Kapur's nouveau-feminist take on the political and religious barrier-breaking rise of Queen Elizabeth I), Hirschfelder has again imbued familiar period-music clichés with just enough pop rhythmic and melodic flourishes to create a score that's fresh yet deceptively familiar. To his credit, Hirschfelder wears his influences proudly, interpolating Mozart, Elgar, Byrd, and Susato into his own, modern, sensibilities with seamless aplomb (only Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War" seems trotted out just once too often). The composer (who also orchestrated) walks a fine musical line on Elizabeth, ultimately creating a musical fusion of the best kind. --Jerry McCulley

Track List:

01. Elizabeth: Overture
02. Love Theme--Arrest
03. Tonight I think I die
04. Walsingham
05. Night of the Long Knives
06. Coronation Banquet
07. Love Theme
08. Aftermath
09. Parliament
10. Rondes
11. Conspiracy
12. Ballard
13. One Mistress, No Master
14. Nimrod
15. Requiem