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This massive double-album was pretty much a dream commission for Simon Fisher Turner: being asked by the British Film Institute to score the restored footage from Robert Falcon Scott's doomed 1910 expedition to the South Pole.  Given the demands and difficulties involved (soundtracking endless silent footage of cavorting penguins, for example), I'd say Simon's efforts were hugely successful in regards to verisimilitude, ingenuity, subtlety, and creating an appropriately haunted and desolate mood.  When taken as a stand-alone album with no visual context, however, the long lulls between flashes of beauty and interludes of bittersweet whimsy can be a bit wearying.

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Label: Soleilmoon Recordings ‎– SOL 176 CD
Format: 2 × CD, Album 
Country:
US Released: 27 Jun 2011
Genre: Classical, Electronic, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack

1-1   The Great White Silence (Part 1) 59:49 
2-1   The Great White Silence (Part 2) 48:34