Murray Gold Archives

Composers Murray Gold and the underrated Segun Akinola always came up with a grand, epic surge in those moments that also encapsulate the show It shows just how much thought is put into everything in Doctor Who. Doctor Who is not just a time-traveling immortal The Doctor is not complete without the TARDIS The latter[...]

With December 25th right around the corner, we're getting a very special preview of  "The Church on Ruby Road" in the form of "The Goblin Song" from composer Murray Gold and showrunner Russell T Davies Available on BBC Sounds – as well as Spotify, Apple Music & Deezer – all proceeds from the single will[...]

And when December 11th rolls around, fans will get a chance to check out amazing composer Murray Gold's "The Goblin Song," two weeks before Doctor Who Christmas Special "The Church on Ruby Road" hits BBC One, BBC iPlayer & Disney+ screens If you've been following our coverage, then you know that Gold's been quite busy lately[...]

Composer Murray Gold is one of the major players and unsung heroes of Doctor Who Some critics might say his compositions were too bombastic and huge, but his music was the biggest change in the show when Russell T Davies recruited him to become the composer in the series' revival in 2005 His scores, accompanied[...]

One major change has been a full orchestra playing the drama. Still from "Doctor Who: The Rings of Akhaten", BBC Doctor Who has only had two composers, Murray Gold, and Segun Akenola Both, in their way, enhanced the show's epic moments, often providing the emotional surge and context for the scene Gold's original compositions are similar to[...]

Kicking things off at 8 pm British Standard Time (3 pm Eastern Time in the United States), Cook was joined by former series music composer Murray Gold, episode director Farren Blackburn, Head of Millennium FX Kate Walsh, and actor Chris Anderson (The Chorister) to offer their personal perspectives and insights into the episode. Here's a look at[...]

Joining the livetweet will be former series music composer Murray Gold Episode director Farren Blackburn and Kate Walsh, the Head of Millennium FX, the Special Effects house that handled the CGI FX for the episode will also be live-tweeting. Doctor Who – Rings of Akhaten Lockdown Rewatch Art No one has unified the 21st Century version of[...]

That's why I didn't remember it. Poetry and Emotion Hm, there's the 11th Doctor's melancholy speech about his memories from "The Rings of Akhaten" with the choral accompaniment of Murray Gold's score There's the 12th Doctor's first big speech about being the man who fights the monsters Then it jumps ahead to Series 11 to highlight the[...]

I miss that sense of epic, poetic romance in the writing for the 13th Doctor's first series. BBC Let's Not Forget Murray Gold Murray Gold's music defined Capaldi's time as much as Capaldi and Moffat did Gold's classical compositions, which drew on Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven and modern Jazz, created the bombast, humour, heroism, sadness, romance and epic grandeur of[...]

Murray Gold became the composer for the show over its next ten series, creating not just music cues but also entire orchestral suites and symphonies the way composers like John Williams and Howard Shore composed for big Hollywood epics like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings Gold's music often did the emotional heavy-lifting for[...]

And the music has become as much a major character in the show as the people in it. Composer Murray Gold is the most underrated and unsung hero of the show, having been there at the start of the 2005 revival of the show under Russell T Davies' run and continuing to the present day, composing[...]