There are quite a few suspenseful cues, done in such a way that a close friend of mine who is a Barry aficionado has referred to this score as a James Bond score without the James Bond theme. This theme shows up a few more times in the score, mostly associated with any deep-sea exploration of the Titanic. In "Main Title / The Mine Shaft", however, we are presented with the classic Barry style: brooding horns with lyrical strings performing in an almost dreamlike manner. This album, which runs just over 50 minutes in length, contains the entire film score as reconstructed and arranged by Raine.īeginning with a rousing prelude similar to his fanfare from The Black Hole, we are presented with the main theme of the Titanic, which is a very optimistic theme - with no hint of the disaster to come. So Nick Raine, who had worked as Barry's orchestrator, once again reunited with the City of Prague Philharmonic orchestra to record the complete score to Raise The Titanic nearly 20 years after the film was released. There were talks of releasing it, but it was said that the original recordings were lost. But having waited 13 years and only getting a short suite was not going to satisfy those desperately needing this score. A short (8:25) suite was finally released on "The Classic John Barry" in 1993 on Silva Records. While Raise the Titanic was not exactly a box office smash, the sweeping score that Barry wrote for it was so lyrical and thematic that film music fans were literally begging for a release. One of the most highly sought-after John Barry scores has finally seen the light of day.
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