Geoffrey Burgon - respected TV and film composer

Geoffrey Burgon is best known as a composer for television contributing memorable themes and incidental music for that medium. In particular the theme for Brideshead Revisited is often included in collections of favourite TV themes. It is at once classical and yet with heightened interest from the inclusion of the occasional modern-sounding harmony. In contrast to this, the closing titles to the series "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" with its religious choral sound gave an eerie ethereal close the programme. Burgon also contributed to children's television in the form of the hugely successful Chronicles of Narnia. The tale is spread over several series beginning with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". For the even longer-running series "Doctor Who", Burgon provided the incidental music for two fondly remembered stories called "Terror of the Zygons" and "The Seeds of Doom" mixing acoustic and electronic sounds to great haunting effect. More recently Burgon has produced music for the BBC's remake of the "Forsyte Saga".

In the world of film music, Burgon created music for "The Dogs of War" and some effective tracks for Monty Python's "The Life of Brian". Available soundtrack CDs include "Brideshead Revisited" (at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com) and his work for those two "Doctor Who" stories (at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com). There is also a website called GeoffreyBurgon.co.uk though its only content is a photograph of the composer and a few links. For piano sheet music of Burgon's television themes take a look at The MusicRoom who have a title called Brideshead Revisited which also features five other TV themes by the composer including "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy".

Films by Geoffrey Burgon:

• The Dogs of War
• Monty Python's Life of Brian - suitably epic in its sweep, not the Eric Idle songs

TV themes and sheet music by Geoffrey Burgon:

Cider with Rosie - the internet movie database credits burgon with the 1998 series, but we believe it was the original 1975 series that he composed for Doctor Who - like Richard Rodney Bennett has made a small contribution to the music for this long-running series The Chronicles of Narnia - now remade as a film, the original TV series had simple music yet with an interesting modern twist, the principle "Aslan's Theme" is available for piano solo from MusicRoom Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - including "Nunc Dimittis" Brideshead Revisited - classical stately home music Latitude - recent series based on the book of scientific endeavor The Forsyte Saga - the remake of this series, Irene's Song is also available for vioce and piano from this link at MusicRoom