Jocelyn Pook – Flood (1999)

Country: England

Tracklist
1. Requiem Aeternam 04:34
2. Migrations (1999 Mix) 03:48
3. Romeo And Juliet 05:09
4. Oppenheimer 06:46
5. Blow The Wind / Pie Jesu 02:57
6. Masked Ball (1999 Extended Mix) 03:37
7. Forever Without End (Solo Voices) 01:49
8. La Blanche Traversée 03:58
9. Thousand Year Dream 03:20
10. Goya's Nightmare 05:51
11. Forever Without End (1999 Remix) 04:40
12. Flood 03:56

Jocelyn Pook (born 14 February 1960) is an English composer, pianist and violist.
Pook graduated in 1983 from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied the viola and piano.
She took part in ABC's Lexicon Of Love World Tour and appeared in the Julian Temple/ABC movie Mantrap,
continuing with a period of recording and performing with artists including Massive Attack, PJ Harvey, Peter Gabriel
and as a member of The Communards for their three year life.
As a composer her early works were mainly for dance and she wrote scores for DV8 Physical Theatre shows
including Strange Fish which won a Prix Italia Award for Music.
She co-founded neoclassical chamber quartet Electra Strings alongside Australian violinist Sonia Slany.
Electra Strings recorded, arranged and performed with many artists including Jools Holland, Mark Knopfler,
The Stranglers, The Cranberries, This Mortal Coil, Nick Cave, Divine Comedy, Paul Weller, Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Michael Nyman, Laurie Anderson and in 1991 appeared in Derek Jarman’s film Edward II.
Her career as a film composer took off when Stanley Kubrick heard her album Deluge
and asked her to score his film Eyes Wide Shut.
The piece Masked Ball, which incorporates a fragment of an Orthodox Liturgy played backwards
and lyrics sung (or chanted) in Romanian, underscored the masked ball sequence.
Pook's score for Eyes Wide Shut received a Chicago Film Award and a Golden Globe nomination.
Pook's score to Michael Radford's film The Merchant Of Venice with Al Pacino
featured countertenor Andreas Scholl and was nominated for a Classical Brit Award.
Other notable film scores include Brick Lane (by Sarah Gavron), Heidi (by Paul Marcus), Time Out (by Laurent Cantet),
Julio Medem’s Caótica Ana and Room In Rome and a piece for Gangs Of New York directed by Martin Scorsese.
In 2018, she composed the soundtrack for The Wife starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater,
which won the 2019 Music & Sound Award for Best Original Composition in a Feature Film.
Pook was nominated for a BAFTA for her score for Channel 4’s The Government Inspector (by Peter Kosminsky)
and in April 2018 she won a BAFTA for her music for the 2017 TV film version of King Charles III (by Rupert Gould).
She also wrote the score for Netflix documentary series The Staircase directed by Jean-Xavier Lestrade.

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