MovieScore Media releases composer Johan Söderqvist's score for The King’s Choice, a historical drama, telling a fateful episode of Norway’s history. On the 09 of April 1940, the German war machine arrives into the fjords of Oslo with the warship Blücher. Norwegian monarch King Haakon VII faces a choice that will change his country forever. While the German invaders strongly advise the King to nominate Norwegian Fascist-leader Vidkun Quisling as the prime minister, the king together with his government makes a brave choice...

Johan Söderqvist's score for The King's Choice contains a good mix of moody, atmospheric cues with a Classical music slant. It's engaging with some beautifully melancholic moments, but it may take you some time to warm to it.

It's a collection of tracks that works outside of the film, but only just. The dark and unsettling themes are woven masterfully throughout the tracks. And if bleak, yet beautiful scores are your thing then you'll find much to appreciate here.

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Darren Rea