Press Release from Music Box:
In collaboration with Une Musique, Music Box Records proudly presents the eleventh volume of the collection Great Television Soundtracks dedicated to the original score composed by Serge Franklin for the famous French TV series Une famille formidable (A Wonderful Family).
From 1992 to 2018 on French TV channel TF1, a faithful audience got immersed into the adventures and misadventures, day-to-day life or summer vacations, friendships and love stories of the Beaumonts. Catherine (Anny Duperey) and Jacques (Bernard Le Coq) are the happy parents of a blended family. Everyone seems to get along and live a merry life, but appearances can be misleading. It was from the fourth season onward, with the episode entitled Le clash in 2000, Serge Franklin was put in charge of setting the series to music at the request of Joël Santoni (Death on a Rainy Sunday). Serge Franklin favored a marked melodic approach for the episodes as a whole. The numerous changes of atmosphere and settings, the main characters growing older and the arrival of younger characters in the series allowed him to write diverse and colorful music using various types of instruments and musical styles. Moving effortlessly from comedy to suspense and from joy to melancholy, the music of Une famille formidable accompanies the memorable moments of the life of the Beaumont family with its light and ethereal melodies.
Supervised and assembled by Serge Franklin, this present edition has been fully remastered from DAT session master elements. The 8-page booklet features an essay by Sylvain Pfeffer discussing the TV series based on interview with the composer. The CD release is limited to 300 units.