Composer, Murray Gold, has spoken about trying to capture Ncuti Gatwa’s “amazing energy” in his Doctor Who soundtrack.

Gold, of course, composed the music for the 60th anniversary specials (with the Fourteenth Doctor) then the entire Fifteenth Doctor era, and, ahead of the release of the 60th anniversary CD soundtrack, says:

“Ncuti Gatwa has this amazing energy. They all do. You can’t be the Doctor and not have an amazing energy. But his energy is different from David [Tennant]’s. Ncuti has this beautiful, dazzling grace about him, and I wanted to capture some of that. It just had such drive, so I wanted to feature a few instruments that haven’t had much of a look in over the years with Doctor Who. So we get this bass clarinet and a baritone sax. This kind of honking ostinato all the way through it. I just wanted it to sound a bit different and have the same mad energy.”

Much of that energy was primarily seen in The Giggle, which saw Tennant’s incarnation of the Doctor have a rather different regeneration, called a bigeneration, during which the Fifteenth Doctor split off from the Fourteenth and existed separately in the same space and time. Gatwa had a bit of the post-regeneration bounciness, and hit the TARDIS with a mallet to (somehow) create a duplicate of the Space-Time Ship.

The 21st Century Doctors all have their signature tunes, tracks that are played at particularly triumphant moments — perhaps the most notable of these is ‘I Am The Doctor’, which accompanied various Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) scenes. Dare I say, it may never be topped…?

Either way, it’s nice that Gold’s music will be heading to CD again very soon.