Decca Records is thrilled to release
the Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) featuring music by Emmy-winning composer John Lunn. This album marks the final installment of the beloved franchise, revisiting both familiar and new themes. The soundtrack is available today on vinyl, CD, and digital platforms.
A timeless keepsake for fans, this release captures the grandeur, grace, and emotional depth of Downton’s farewell. The film also premieres in theaters today.
Lunn reflects, “Composing the music for Downton Abbey has been an extraordinary journey. From the very beginning, my goal was to create a score that felt timeless yet deeply connected to the emotional lives of the characters. To see the music resonate with audiences around the world has been one of the great privileges of my career, and I’m thrilled to share this new release as the final culmination of that story.”
ABOUT DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE
The cinematic return of the global phenomenon follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Track Listing:
- A night in Piccadilly
- The London Season
- Mary, alone again
- Home at last
- Mr Sambrook
- Goodbye and welcome
- A happy return
- The County Show
- Royal Ascot 1930
- The Gold Cup
- A question of property
- Wives can have secrets
- Private Lives
- The Stately Homes of England
- Dance, Little Lady
- Prodigal daughter
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Mary restored
- The Crown is passed
- Amen to that
- End Titles
About John Lunn
John Lunn’s music possesses a wonderfully unique voice that spans a wide spectrum of musical styles. Classically trained, yet contemporary in attitude, he combines a highly intelligent and sensitive approach, with a sound that always hits at the emotional heart of a piece. Matching the highest production values with a continual desire to discover new colors and sounds, it is not hard to see why John is continuously in such high demand. He is probably best known for scoring the hugely successful flagship ITV/Carnival Films drama, Downton Abbey, for which he has received two Primetime Emmy Awards, in 2012 and 2013, a further nomination in 2014, two Bafta nominations in 2012 & 2016. He also scored the 2019 movie adaptation which has gone on to become a massive hit, followed by Downton Abbey: A New Era and the upcoming Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.
John’s work includes ITV/PBS/Kudos adaption of The Grantchester Mysteries which is now in it’s10th season, Red Planet’s epic WW1 drama The Passing Bells and three seasons of Sky’s groundbreaking Jamestown about the early English settlements in America. He also scored Burton And Taylor (starring Dominic West and Helena Bonham-Carter), Shetland, The White Queen (based on the bestselling novel by Phillipa Gregory), for which he also received a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2014, and the subsequent follow up The White Princess, the reimagining of Hitchcock’s classic The Lady Vanishes, plus Sally Wainwright’s wonderful To Walk Invisible a biopic of the Bronte sisters, all for the BBC.
Having done all 5 previous seasons, Lunn scored the Netflix movie The Last Kingdom – 7 Kings Must Die, the finale in an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling “The Saxon Stories” for Netflix.
He has received critical acclaim for three adaptations of Charles Dickens classics: the BBC/Masterpiece centenary adaptation of The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, for which he was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award (2013), 2008’s 14-part re-imagining of Little Dorrit, which garnered both a BAFTA nomination and his first Primetime Emmy nomination, and Bleak House where he received RTS Best Score and Best Title nominations.
ABOUT DECCA RECORDS
Decca is one of the world’s iconic record labels. The logo has been associated with some of recorded music’s defining acts: David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Vera Lynn, Luciano Pavarotti and Ella Fitzgerald to name a few.
Decca has a strong association with soundtracks – from early Rodgers and Hammerstein to Hans Zimmer and James Horner; from hit musicals such as ‘Cabaret’ starring Eddie Redmayne to high profile televised events such as the Olympics and the Royal Coronation, TV series and award-winning period drama ‘Downton Abbey’. The label has a
long history of best-selling releases such as ‘Gladiator’, ‘Braveheart’, ‘Shine’, ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy and the highest-charting Bond soundtrack ‘No Time To Die’, the Oscar-winning soundtrack to ‘The Shape of Water’, ‘Judy’ performed by Renée Zellweger, The National’s ‘Cyrano’, Jonny Greenwood’s ‘Spencer’ and ‘Minions 2’ featuring the acclaimed single from Diana Ross (ft. Tame Impala) alongside a star-studded tracklisting.
Decca is also home to such diverse and distinctive artists as Ludovico Einaudi, AURORA, Gregory Porter, Melody Gardot, Jacob Collier, Isobel Waller-Bridge and Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Find out more at decca.com
