Cutthroat Island

The score for the pirate film Cutthroat Island was composed by John Debney. The music was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, with choral contributions by the London Voices and was conducted by David Snell. Although the actual film was a commercial disaster, the score has been praised for its style, reminiscent of the Golden Age Hollywood swashbuckling scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and the symphonic scores by French composer Frédéric Talgorn. It has been noted as one of Debney's greatest compositions, alongside The Passion of the Christ. The score uses traditional orchestration backed with choir, a practice Debney considered necessary to avoid the music's sounding "too old fashioned" Particularly, conservative critics...