Sense and Sensibility (soundtrack) Scottish composer Patrick Doyle. Doyle was friends with actors Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, and had worked on many films directed by the former, including "Henry V" (1989) and "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993). Thompson hired him to score the 1995 film "Sense and Sensibility", in which she was writing and starring. "Sense and Sensibility"s director, Ang Lee, requested Doyle write a score that was gentle, intimate, and a reflection of "the suppressed emotions of that society". Doyle later described the film as "more stifled; the music had to be suppressed to match what was happening onscreen. You had this
Sense and Sensibility (soundtrack) the film, and is suitably romantic, but it's a shame that it's a score like this that got him a nomination and not a truly original one like his debut". Similarly, AllMusic writer Darryl Cater did not feel the film represented Doyle's best work, explaining that "most of it simply recycles melodic phrases from his previous stuff. Nonetheless, "Sense and Sensibility" has a pleasant romanticism in its orchestrations, and the vocal solos by renowned soprano Jane Eaglen are quite good". Writing for "The Daily Telegraph", Alan Titchmarsh called the score a "delicious masterpiece" and recommended it to film music fans.