Instrumentation: Narrator, full orchestra
Duration: 40 minutes | Professional/Advanced
Award: 2024 Global Music Awards Outstanding Achievement Silver Medal
Recorded: Budapest Film Orchestra, Navona Records, 2024
What's included: Full conductor's score + narrator script + all orchestral parts (PDF) .
By request, you can also receive a library of videos designed to accompany a live performance along with a technical production package.
Description: Coleridge's poem is about what it costs to do something you cannot undo. The Mariner does not explain himself; he tells the story, again and again, to whoever will stand still long enough to hear it. In this setting, the orchestra does not accompany the narrator so much as it becomes the world the narrator inhabits: the sea, the silence, the rotating sun and moon, the supernatural presences that move through the poem with their own agendas.
WTJU Public Radio wrote that the music "perfectly captures that concept of unease and unspoken danger. It defines the work and gives it emotional power." Daniel Kepl of performingartsreview.net: "I found it absolutely compelling."
The Budapest Film Orchestra recorded this for Navona Records in 2024; the work received the Global Music Awards Outstanding Achievement Silver Medal that year. It is one of those rare concert works where the familiarity of the literary source actually deepens the musical experience rather than limiting it.
Instrumentation: Narrator, full orchestra
Duration: 40 minutes | Professional/Advanced
Award: 2024 Global Music Awards Outstanding Achievement Silver Medal
Recorded: Budapest Film Orchestra, Navona Records, 2024
What's included: Full conductor's score + narrator script + all orchestral parts (PDF) .
By request, you can also receive a library of videos designed to accompany a live performance along with a technical production package.
Description: Coleridge's poem is about what it costs to do something you cannot undo. The Mariner does not explain himself; he tells the story, again and again, to whoever will stand still long enough to hear it. In this setting, the orchestra does not accompany the narrator so much as it becomes the world the narrator inhabits: the sea, the silence, the rotating sun and moon, the supernatural presences that move through the poem with their own agendas.
WTJU Public Radio wrote that the music "perfectly captures that concept of unease and unspoken danger. It defines the work and gives it emotional power." Daniel Kepl of performingartsreview.net: "I found it absolutely compelling."
The Budapest Film Orchestra recorded this for Navona Records in 2024; the work received the Global Music Awards Outstanding Achievement Silver Medal that year. It is one of those rare concert works where the familiarity of the literary source actually deepens the musical experience rather than limiting it.
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