Telegraph: Greenwood Part of "Belle Epoque" of Brit Film Composers

Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood has been praised by the New Yorker as a "revelatory" contribution to the world of film composition, and, writes the Telegraph (UK)'s Adam Sweeting, it just may signal a "Belle Epoque" of British film music.

In the article, Sweeting profiles a crop of British composers now in high demand in Hollywood and looks to explain why the UK has proven to be such a fertile source of top-notch writers.

"There's no single reason why this should be happening now," he concludes, "but the roots of the phenomenon may lie in a cross-breeding of classical tradition with the UK's bubbling cauldron of pop music."

Sweeting signals out the score from Greenwood as "a giant step in his reinvention as an orchestral composer above and beyond his work as Radiohead's guitarist."

You can read the article and listen to "Open Spaces" from the film soundtrack at telegraph.co.uk.