Intrada
  • Sign InSign Out
  • My Account
  • View Cart (0)
  • Checkout
Search
 
 
  • Home
  • Store
    • New Releases
      • Now Available
      • Coming Soon
    • Store Catalog
      • Intrada Label
      • By Label
      • By Composer
      • By Film Decade
      • By Film Genre
      • By Special Note
      • By Music Style
    • Collector's Corner
      • One-of-a-Kind
      • Anything Goes
      • Featured
      • Danger Zone
    • Vinyl
  • Discussion
    • Doug’s Corner
      • Archive
    • Soundtrack Forum
      • Views & Opinions
      • Pre-Release
      • Suggestion Box
  • Label
    • Press Room
  • About Us
    • About Intrada
      • History
      • Staff
    • Our Collaborators
  • Contact
    • Newsletter
    • Get In Touch
      • E-mail
      • Postal Address
    • Store Policies
      • FAQs
      • Privacy Policy
      • Order Form
Products > Store Catalog > Label > BuySoundtrax > 
Shopping Cart
Your Cart is Empty
View Cart
Search
 
 
 Products
 Store Catalog
 Anything Goes
 Composer
 Decade
 Genre
 Label
 Alhambra
 Aleph
 Amazon
 Arista
 Atlantic
 Back Lot Music
 Bay Cities
 BBC
 Beat Records
 BFD
 BYU
 BuySoundtrax
976-EVIL II: THE ASTRAL FACTOR
ADVENTURES IN DINOSAUR CITY
THE ALAN HOWARTH COLLECTION VOLUME 2
THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION VOLUME 2
THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION VOLUME 3
THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION VOLUME 4
ATOMIC TRAIN
BASEMENT JACK
THE BOX OF DELIGHTS
THE BOY WHO COULD FLY (REISSUE)
COURAGE
THE CRAIG SAFAN COLLECTION VOLUME 1: TIMESTALKERS / DIE LAUGHING (2CD)
THE DAVID MICHAEL FRANK COLLECTION VOLUME 1
THE DAVID SPEAR COLLECTION VOLUME 1
THE DAVID SPEAR COLLECTION VOLUME 2
THE DEEP ONES
THE ERNEST GOLD COLLECTION VOLUME 1
EXTERMINATOR 2 (2CD)
FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE / THE WILD DUCK
FROM BEYOND (REISSUE)
THE GERALD FRIED COLLECTION VOLUME 1
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION VOLUME 1
THE HUMMIE MANN COLLECTION VOLUME 1
THE JOEL GOLDSMITH COLLECTION VOLUME 2
THE KEN THORNE COLLECTION VOLUME 1
LADY BEWARE
THE LEE HOLDRIDGE COLLECTION VOLUME 2
LLOYD
THE MARK SNOW COLLECTION VOLUME 3: SOUTHERN GOTHIC
MASTERS OF HORROR - THE RICHARD BAND SCORES (2CD)
MEDAL OF HONOR - ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK FROM THE PBS SERIES
MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN
NIGHT CALLER
NO NAME & DYNAMITE
NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER 2: RAGING THUNDER
THE PETER BERNSTEIN COLLECTION VOLUME 1
PRISON (REISSUE)
THE RATINGS GAME
THE RESURRECTED (REISSUE)
SORCERESS
SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE II & III
STRANGE BEHAVIOR
T-REX: BACK TO THE CRETACEOUS
TEENAGE EXORCIST / WITCH ACADEMY
TURKEY SHOOT
WEBS AND OTHER WONDERS
ZERO TO SIXTY
ZOMBIE NIGHT
 Caldera
 CAM
 Chandos
 Chapter III Records
 Chris' Soundtrack Corner
 Cinevox
 Citadel
 CMT
 Decca
 Deutsche Grammophon
 Digitmovies
 DRG
 EMI/Capitol Records
 Epic Soundtrax
 FSM
 Full Moon Records
 GDM
 GMMC
 GNP Crescendo
 Hollywood Records
 Howe
 Howlin Wolf
 JOS Records
 Koch
 Kritzerland
 Kronos
 La-La Land
 Label X
 Lakeshore
 Legend
 London
 Marco Polo
 MCA Records
 Mercury
 Milan
 Monstrous Movie Music
 Movie Score Media
 Music Box Records
 New Line
 Nonesuch
 Notefornote Music
 Null
 Percepto
 Perseverance
 Phineas Atwood
 Preamble
 Prometheus
 Promotional
 Quartet
 Rai Trade
 RCA
 Relativity
 Reprise
 Retrograde
 Rhino
 Rykodisc
 Saimel
 Screen Archives Entertainment
 Silva Screen
 Silverscreen Music
 Sony
 Southern Cross
 Tadlow
 Tribute Film Classics
 Varese Sarabande
 Virgin
 Walt Disney Records
 Warner Bros.
 Water Tower
 miscellaneous
 Special
 Style
 Vinyl
 Danger Zone
 Featured
 Back In Stock
 Intrada Label

FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE / THE WILD DUCK

FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE / THE WILD DUCK
Download Artwork
    Simon Walker
    Label: Dragon's Domain Records DDR661
    Film Date: 1983
    Album Date: 2019
    Time: 69:45
    Tracks: 33
    Limited edition of 500

    Price: $17.99

     
    Add to cart
    • More Info
    • Track List
    • Doug's Tech Talk
    • Musicians List
    • Reviews
    • Press Release from Dragon's Domain:
      Dragon’s Domain Records presents the soundtrack release of FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE/THE WILD DUCK, featuring music composed and conducted by Simon Walker for two projects for Australian television and film.

      FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE aired on Australian television in 1983 as a two part series directed by Rob Stewart, starring Colin Friels, Anthony Perkins, Patrick Macnee, Diane Cilento and Samantha Eggar. FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE was based on the novel by Marcus Clarke, first serialized in Australia in the late 1800s and the subject of an early feature film in 1927. The mini series tells the story of a young English gentleman (Friels) wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment at a Tasmanian penal settlement. Adopting the name “Rufus Dawes” to protect his family, he tries to survive the rigors of hard labor but gradually becomes a hardened convict. His manner is softened when he falls in love with the young daughter of an officer at the colony. When Dawes learns that his English title and inheritance have been stolen from him during his incarceration, he escapes and seeks revenge on those who wronged him.

      Simon Walker was hired to score FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE because the filmmakers had been impressed by the music he’d written on previous films. The result is a large scale orchestral score largely centered on Walker’s main theme, a heraldic melody favoring brass, strings, and rolling percussion and also including a rapturous love theme for Dawes and Sylvia, along with a spritely woodwind and violin motif associated with the character of Reverend Meekin (Perkins).

      THE WILD DUCK was Simon Walker’s first feature film score, based on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s tragicomedy. Directed by French-born Australian filmmaker Henri Safran and adapted and anglicized by the director along with Tutte Lemkow and John Lind with “additional material” by Peter Smalley, the film starred Jeremy Irons, Liv Ullmann, Lucinda Jones, Arthur Dignam, and Michael Pate. Set in a small industrial Australian town THE WILD DUCK concerns a couple, Harold and Gina (Irons and Ullmann), who are forced to answer for the legitimacy of their adolescent daughter Henrietta (Jones) when her true father, Gregory (Dignam), comes to town. Figuring into the drama is a wild duck that has been wounded by Gregory's father (Pate) and rescued by Henrietta; its symbolism looms over the stifling household as personalities reach a heartrending climax.

      It was Walker’s score to FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE that led to being hired for THE WILD DUCK. While his instincts were to score THE WILD DUCK with a very gentle small scale orchestral score, the producer and the director had other ideas and preferred a full blown symphonic score with lots of strings. His score for THE WILD DUCK is written in a warm, Romantic style like FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE and includes a main theme that is thoroughly engaging, coloring the drama and reflecting the conflicts of the story.

      Simon Walker was born in Sydney in 1961, and by the age of twelve he had developed a keen interest in music after tinkering with the family piano. He attended the Sydney Boys High School (1974-1980) as a selective student (for academic achievements) and was heavily involved in the music department during his years there. At the age of 17, Walker won the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Young Composers Competition” with his entry “Fibres,” which was later performed in concert by the Sydney Symphony. Like many composers starting out, Walker’s first film scores were for student productions in the late 1970s. His first professional commission came in 1979, to score THE THINGS WE WANT TO KEEP, a Film Australia documentary about the richness and variety of the country’s national heritage. By the early 1980s Walker was an in-demand composer, scoring a number of notable films and TV movies, including a series of animated films based on popular literary novels for Burbank Films Australia which were shown on American television. By his untimely death at the age of 48, after a career that lasted only sixteen years, Walker had composed dozens of films and television episodes and was among the most respected of Australian film composers.

      Both FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE and THE WILD DUCK were released previously in the early days of the compact disc format and have been difficult to find over the years. Dragon’s Domain Records is pleased to bring these wonderful scores back into the marketplace now newly remastered by Digital Outland for new listeners to discover Simon Walker’s incredible talent and including liner notes by author Randall Larson.

    • FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE
      1. Main Title / Coming Home (3:07)
      2. Lord Bellasis’ Watch (1:27)
      3. Convicted (1:55)
      4. The Mutiny (2:24)
      5. The Penal Colony (4:43)
      6. Dawes and Sylvia / The Flogging (1:43)
      7. Hallucination (2:40)
      8. Escape From The Rock (4:22)
      9. Caught Again (2:11)
      10. The Chains Removed (2:54)
      11. Dawes Considers Escape (0:42)
      12. “Why Didn’t You Kill Him?” (2:02)
      13. The Rescue (1:29)
      14. Fight In The Coal Mine (1:46)
      15. Impersonations (1:25)
      16. The Escape / Arrival At Sydney Harbour (3:13)
      17. The Goldfields / A New Friendship (2:22)
      18. Frere’s Death (1:05)
      19. The Conspiracy Revealed (1:40)
      20. Sylvia and Dawes Reunited (End Titles) (3:04)
      THE WILD DUCK
      21. Main Title Part 1 (1:43)
      22. Main Title Part 2 (3:43)
      23. Train Station Reunion / Boys Night Out (1:12)
      24. Coffee Time (1:17)
      25. Most Important Thing in Life is Truth (4:43)
      26. Good Night (1:39)
      27. Chickens (2:15)
      28. I Think He Wants Something Else (1:12)
      29. Night Time (0:37)
      30. She Isn’t Mine? (1:56)
      31. Despair (1:04)
      32. Suicide Attempt (0:49)
      33. Finale (2:51)
    • Store

    • New Releases
    • Store Catalog
    • Collector's Corner
    • Discussion

    • Doug's Corner
    • Forum
    • Label

    • Press Room
    • About Us

    • About Intrada
    • Our Collaborators
    • Contact Us

    • Newsletter
    • Get In Touch
    • Store Policies

    Follow us:

    Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter
    Security Seals
    Intrada
    • Intrada: 5940 College Ave, Suite G. Oakland, CA 94618
    • Ph: (510) 250-9178 Fax: (510) 250-9268
    • Email: intrada@intrada.com