Cymbeline
2016
Royal Shakespeare Company

an RSC production 2016
by William Shakespeare
directed by Melly Still

I composed the original score for this RSC production which played at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre before transferring to The Barbican and broadcasting to cinemas.

The music was played live by an eight piece band band with a diverse instrumentation including two vocalists, trumpets, fujara, bassoon, clarinets, percussion and keyboards.

The score was recorded at Vada studios and released on the RSC’s in house label.

Sianed Jones: Voice, Bass Viol, Percussion
Felicity Rogers: Voice, Whistles, Percussion
Jan Winstone: Keyboards, MD
Maria Mealey: Bassoon
Alison Lambert: Clarinets
Tom Allan: Trumpets, Fujara
Joe Archer: Guitar
Jimmy Jones / Zands Duggan: Percussion

Dave Price’s music – combinations of voices, strings, wind, percussion and keyboards – is magnificent. It gives shape and depth and atmosphere and helps to make whole what we see before us.
Clare Brennan – The Observer

Composer Dave Price’s music, coming from the upper-stage wings, has richness of atmosphere throughout and comes into its own here
Tom Birchenough - theartsdesk.com

Music is used to powerful effect…Dave Price’s worldly soundscape reflects a production that joyously celebrates the diversity of these divided isles.
timeout.com

Three songs were so good that I bought the CD right afterwards. There’s the big production beats track in Rome (“I Am Up For It”). Then Marcus Griffiths (Cloten) and his two henchman do a 70s soul trio ballad with movements to ‘Hark hark the lark at heaven’s gate sings’, and the two wild Welsh kids do a folk song treatment to the lyric ‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun’ (that’s the one I had to buy) with James Clooney singing lead.
peterviney.com

A microphone appears in the comedic singing performance by Cloten and his followers. In fact the music composed by Dave Price and the use of songs and dance is so effective in Still’s production (certainly a ‘Eurotrash-y’ dance number in Rome including a moustachioed guy channelling Lady Gaga is one such example) that ‘Cymbeline: the musical’ would have been not a bad idea.
playstosee.com

Dave Price’s score – blending wind , strings, keyboard and percussion – is superb adding just the right touch of atmosphere and depth. There are enchanting , very moving settings of ‘Hark, hark the lark’ and ‘Fear no more.’
sydneyartsguide.com

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