Howard Goodall - Johnny English Strikes Again (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) '2018

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Howard Goodall CBE is one of Britain’s best-known composers of choral
music, stage musicals, TV and film scores. He is also a distinguished music
historian and broadcaster.
His choral music has been commissioned to mark many national ceremonies and
memorials; his settings of Psalm 23 and Love divine are amongst the most
performed of all sacred music, featuring on several platinum-selling CDs.
Eternal Light: A Requiem has had over 550 live performances throughout the world
since its première in 2008 and won him a Classical BRIT Award for Composer of
the Year. His 2009 Enchanted Voices, a setting of the Beatitudes, was no.1 in
the Specialist Classical CD chart for six months, winning him a Gramophone
award. In June 2012 his Rigaudon accompanied Queen Elizabeth II on her Diamond
Jubilee Regatta and he was musically responsible for Rowan Atkinson’s
memorable performance at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. On
4th August 2014 his anthem Sure of the Sky-Des Himmels sicher, especially
commissioned for the occasion, was performed at the St Symphorien Military
Cemetery, Mons, to mark the start of the First World War, in the presence of
heads of state of all combatant nations. He conducted the première of his
oratorio Every Purpose Under The Heaven, commissioned to mark the 400th
anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, in Westminster Abbey in
November 2011. His recent Invictus: A Passion was commissioned by and
premièred at St Luke’s Methodist Church Houston in March 2018,
followed by a European and broadcast première in London, and released on CD.
Howard’s first West End musical The Hired Man, opened in 1984 and has
since been performed all over the world, winning many international awards.
Other West End musicals include Girlfriends, The Kissing-Dance, the dreaming,
Love Story and Bend it Like Beckham which is due to tour India, the USA and
Canada in 2019-20. Love Story has also been premièred in the USA, The Russian
Federation, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, South Korea
and Brazil, where it was produced in Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 Olympiad.
As well as writing musicals, Howard has composed some of the best-known British
TV theme tunes of the last 30 years, including Mr Bean, Blackadder, Red Dwarf,
Q.I. and The Vicar of Dibley. The animated Mr Bean series, for which he writes
all the music, is the most followed entertainment product on earth, with over 80
million Facebook followers and 10 million YouTube subscribers. His score for the
HBO film Into the Storm won him a Primetime EMMY for Original Dramatic Score and
newly released this month is Johnny English Strikes Back which he has scored.
For the past 30 years he has written and presented his own TV documentary series
on the theory and history of music. His books, Big Bangs: The Story of Five
Discoveries That Changed Musical History and Howard Goodall’s Story of
Music have been translated and published in over 20 countries. His most recent
TV film, Sergeant Pepper’s Musical Revolution was shown on BBC2 and PBS,
and simultaneously worldwide on June 3rd 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of
the release of the iconic Beatles album. For his TV series he has been honoured
with a BAFTA, an RTS Judges’ Prize for Outstanding Contribution to
Education in Broadcasting and over a dozen other international broadcast awards.
He was England’s first ever National Ambassador for Singing and Classic
fm’s Composer-in-Residence for many years. He was appointed CBE in the
2011 New Year Honours for services to music education.

01 - Forest Mission
02 - Opening Titles
03 - Johnnys on Board
04 - Flaming Lobsters
05 - Volta, The PM and Dot Calm
06 - Boat Mission
07 - Car Chase
08 - False Flirtation and Tablet Choice
09 - Break-In
10 - Learner Driver
11 - Sacked Johnny
12 - Castle Arrival
13 - Knight Hiding
14 - U.N. Speech
15 - Helicopter
16 - Mr. English Returns
17 - End Roller Medley

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