De Wolfe Music - 1978

1978

The third generation of the De Wolfe family started at the company in 1978. Meyer de Wolfe’s grandson, Warren de Wolfe, began in the Transfer and Editing department at the company’s old premises in Wardour Street. Warren joined at a time when the company was developing its own Angel Studios complex in Islington in 1979. Recording began in 1982 and by 1983 Angel was already attracting acts like The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees, who hired the studio commercially. After opening a third studio at the complex in 1987, the premises developed further into a significant business for De Wolfe, not only allowing its composers access to a world class studio, but also supplying a facility for today’s leading artists. Ian Brown, Goldfrapp, Kaiser Chiefs, Funeral for a Friend, Elbow, The Feeling and Karl Jenkins (for his acclaimed Adiemus project) are amongst those to have recorded there, while most famously, and fittingly, it was also where Robbie Williams recorded parts for his worldwide smash hit Angels.

The Angel Studio’s expansive orchestra room also ensures its popularity among film score composers like Eric Serra who scored Léon and the James Bond film GoldenEye there. George Fenton used the studio to record his award-winning scores for natural history shows The Blue Planet and Planet Earth, while other projects have included Alex Heffes for Touching The Void, Maury Weston for Nine (film), Ann Dudley for The Full Monty and Craig Armstrong, who scored Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet. Among Angel Studios impressive roster of other blockbusting soundtracks are classics like The English Patient (1996), The Crying Game (1992), Buster (1988), Memphis Belle (1990), Pride and Prejudice (2005) and The Lion King (1994). In order to maximise the potential of Angel Studios as a resource for De Wolfe’s bespoke compositions, the company also operates a separate department. Inter Angel enables De Wolfe clients, Angel Studios and the roster of composers to work to highly specific briefs. In recent years these have included the composition of music, themes, beds and idents for a range of high profile, mainstream television programmes including The Weakest Link, Richard & Judy, The Price Is Right, Saturday Kitchen, House Doctor, How to Cheat at Cooking and Fame Academy. When ITV proposed a new arrangement for classic TV theme The Bill, the people they entrusted were Inter Angel.