Drake & Morwenna's Theme - (It's actually a memo recording from the t.v. I wish it were available it's such a beautiful piece of music.)
Just reading your message brought the melody into my mind. It's so lovely and evocative.
I don't have a playlist of Poldark music, but I do have quite a few pieces of music heard in the series on my devices.
Like you, I enjoy Cuckolds All A Row. I've danced to it many times, in fact! The dance commonly done to this piece [nowadays] is known by the title "Hey, Boys, Up Go We."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFtPDDPayA
I also enjoy The Black Nag and The Comical Fellow, which are two more English Country Dance [ECD] pieces from Sir Hugh's ball (which I have danced many times, as well). Incidentally, The Comical Fellow is also danced in Pride and Prejudice 1995.
Plaisir d'amour and Lancers Quadrilles (#2) are other pieces from Poldark that I listen to fairly regularly, along with "Juniper, Gentle and Rosemary" (a song Demelza practices/sings at the pianoforte at Nampara). The latter is on a wonderful album of trad music by Oxford band, Magpie Lane, titled Six for Gold.
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Mlle_Panisse
10 years ago
Thanks so much for sharing. The "Hey, Boys…" dance looks fun. I would probably be like Mr. Collins, but maybe having a caller would help.
Plaisir d'amour and Lancers Quadrilles (#2) are other pieces from Poldark that I listen to fairly regularly, along with "Juniper, Gentle and Rosemary" (a song Demelza practices/sings at the pianoforte at Nampara). The latter is on a wonderful album of trad music by Oxford band, Magpie Lane, titled Six for Gold.
I forgotten about Demelza and her pianoforte. She also sings Early One Morning in series 1. Thanks again for the sharing, I doubt I would've been able to i.d. the other two songs from Sir Hugh's ball.
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randommovies2002
10 years ago
You're welcome.
One piece I would really like to identify is the baroque-sounding music heard near the end of series 2 as Ross and Demelza are en route to London. The music is heard for quite a while, as they pass mile marker after mile marker (carved on large stones) indicating how far they are from "town."
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