All Creatures Great and Small
Channel 5 2020
Most recently Alexandra scored the new seven part Drama series ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ for Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece, starring Samuel West, Dame Diana Rigg, Rachel Shenton and Nicholas Ralph and is about to start scoring the second series. Prior to this composed scores for Mike Newell’s feature film, ’The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ starring Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell and Sir Tom Courtenay, the Ballet ‘Geisha’ for the Northern Ballet and ‘Thatcher: A Very British Revolution’ BBC Documentary Series.
“A superlative score”
“Alexandra Harwood’s score begins to relish its cinematic effects of woozy strings and deadbeat thumps.”
“Alexandra Harwood’s bold musical score combines eastern and western traditions in a way that is both consistent and impressive. “
“Alexandra Harwood clearly has an impressive dramatic sense, as well as a knack for coaxing elegant harmonies and instrumental combinations out of her orchestra.”
“A seamlessly artful score from the film composer Alexandra Harwood that is marked by subtle shifts between delicacy and dramatic urgency.”
“It is an eloquent and subtle work, and one that should be listened to savoured and applauded.”
“Alexandra Harwood’s superb musical score makes room for lovely moments of Japanese percussion and flute.”
“A composer with a clear and well defined musical voice of the highest quality. In short, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a score that comes highly recommended to all film music fans.”
“Alexandra Harwood’s intelligent and sensitive score serves the emotional drama of the piece whilst also evoking 19th-century Japan through the use of traditional instrumentation.“
Channel 5 2020
Northern Ballet 2020
Universal Studios 2019
Mike Newell | Blueprint Pictures | Mazal Kaplan | Studio Canal 2018
Dominic Savage | Shoebox Films 2017
Channel 5 2016
Disney | Netflix USA | Silverback 2016
Channel 4 | Animal Planet 2016
Shaun Clark, MewLab | Film London 2016
Klassefilm | Denmark 2015
Kim Noce | Shaun Clark | MewLab 2015