Exclusive: Hear Two Tracks From the SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Soundtrack

Lakeshore Records and Broadway Records are set to release the score to Scrooge: A Christmas Carol-Music From The Netflix Film digitally on December 16. Pre-save the soundtrack here.

The score is by award-winning composer Jeremy Holland-Smith (Musical Director for West End Production of Billy Elliot). Produced by Timeless Films in association with Axis Studios and directed by Stephen Donnelly, Charles Dickens' ageless legend is reborn in this supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of the definitive Christmas story.

BroadwayWorld is exclusively sharing two songs from the soundtrack, "Ebenezer Are You There" and "From Present To Future." Be the first to hear the new tracks from the soundtrack below!

"The animation takes the viewer from Victorian London to some supernatural and psychedelic ghostly settings, and the musical score accompanies the viewer on that journey - whilst working around the re-imagined original songs and the two new songs that I wrote with the director," Smith stated.

"The period festive setting and classic songs called for a full and vibrant orchestral score which could be used to enhance the intense ghostly imagery but also be sensitive to the raw emotions felt by so many of the characters in the story. I wanted to write a score that stayed authentic to the core of the musical originally produced over 40 years ago, but that complimented the energy of the modernized British animation and the characters produced by it. Huge thanks to all the fine musicians, singers and engineers involved in recording this score at the wonderful and incomparable Air Studios, London."

Listen to "Ebenezer Are You There" here:

Listen to "From Present To Future" here:

As a television and film composer, Jeremy's most recent credits include composing the score for the feature film 'The Passing' (dir. Gareth Bryn) which won three 2016 BAFTA Cymru awards and for which Jeremy won the 2017 Music and Sound Award for Best Original Feature Film score, scoring the highly acclaimed BBC documentaries 'I Shot my Parents' (dir. Martin Webb) and 'North Korea: Murder in the Family' (dir. Jane McMullen) and the score for the return of the BBC series, 'The League of Gentlemen' (dir. Steve Bendelack). Jeremy was also the Music Consultant for the recent BBC adaptation of 'Les Miserables'.

Previous scores for television include the BBC series' 'Frankie' and 'The Dumping Ground', the ITV film 'Doors Open' and has won awards for his advertising campaigns including 'Phones 4U' (winner of the 2012 Music & Sound award for Sound Design in Cinema Advertising) and scored the US campaign for Hertz.

Jeremy composed the score for Will Tuckett's, 'The Secret Garden' which premiered in 2014 to critical acclaim and was reprised by the Sarasota Ballet in 2017. Also commissioned by the Sarasota Ballet was 'Changing Light' which premiered in 2012 and later reprised in 2017, choreographed by Will Tuckett.

Also in 2017, Jeremy continued his collaboration with the Docklands Sinfonia and was commissioned to compose 'The Caretaker's Guide to the Orchestra'. Jeremy was subsequently nominated for a British Composer Award in 2018 for this work.

As an orchestrator and conductor recent work with Paul Englishby includes, 'Queens of Mystery', 'The Musketeers' (Series 2 & 3 BBC), 'Witness for the Prosecution' (BBC), 'Decline and Fall' (BBC), 'A Royal Night Out' (dir. Julian Jarrold) and his work with Murray Gold including 'The Musketeers' (Series 1 BBC), 'Life Story' (BBC) and 'Doctor Who' (BBC).

He has also worked closely with Joby Talbot on numerous projects including 'Psychoville' (BBC), 'Hunky Dory' (dir. Marc Evans), 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (ROH), and 'Tide Harmonic' (Signum Records). In 2016, he orchestrated and conducted Joby's score for Universal/Illumination's hit film, 'Sing!', (dir. Garth Jennings) and 'Out of Shadowland', a new live Musical show for Disney Sea, Tokyo.

In theatre, Jeremy has been Musical Director and Composer on numerous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company (2004-2006), Musical Director for the highly successful West End musical Billy Elliot , directed by Stephen Daldry, (2007), Musical Director for the West End Premiere of The Lord of the Rings (2007), Musical Director for The Thief of Baghdad at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (2008) and Co-Orchestrator of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (ROH) (2011), choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon.

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