Rachel Portman: The Emperor's New Clothes

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I've always admired Rachel Portman's film-scores. Here is a very small sample of the music she wrote for a movie called 'The Emperor's New Clothes', starring Ian Holm as Napoleon. It's an historical fantasy which imagines a happy and fulfilled end to the former dictator's life. A charming and enjoyable film, sadly underrated. Very few stills from the movie are available, so I've made a sequence of Napoleonic images to go with the music, courtesy of Google.
