The original score is composed by Clint's son Kyle Eastwood,who associated with his partner Michael Stevens;it is their fourth film score together after Letters from Iwo Jima (2006),Rails &Ties (2007) and Gran Torino (2008).[1][2] Kyle wrote few of the score for Invictus where some of them were not included in the album. Hence part of its melody were changed and used on Eastwood's studio album Songs from the Chateau (2011),which was "kind of jazzy,with a little bit of an African touch to it,too."[2] The soundtrack features contributions from the South African a cappella group Overtone led by Yollandi Nortjie.[3]
Mark Deming of AllMusic wrote "Clint's son Kyle Eastwood composed the score for Invictus in collaboration with Michael Stevens; this album features Eastwood and Stevens' music for the film, along with a number of South African melodies and the theme song "9,000 Days," performed by Overtone and Yollandi Nortjie."[4] Dave Worrall of Cinema Retro wrote "Kyle Eastwood and composer Michael Stevens have, once again, produced a great sounding score, this time one that perfectly blends a beautiful haunting cinematic theme with that of South African traditional music. Highly recommended and one of my favourite Eastwood scores to date."[5]
Todd McCarthy of Variety and Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter called the score "pompous" and "inspiring".[6][7]Philip French of The Guardian wrote "Eastwood has also worked with his musician son Kyle to produce a remarkable soundtrack drawing on a wide variety of South African music."[8] Dan Mecca of The Film Stage wrote "the music by Kyle Eastwood (Clint’s son) and Michael Stevens is occasionally interrupted by boy band Overtone and their horribly on-the-nose pop ballads. The worst of them is "Colorblind" [...] There’s really no narrative cue for the song when it appears in the film, which makes its blatant lyrics all the more obtrusive."[9]
Cello – Earnest Eharhardt, Giovanna Clayton, Matthew Cooker, Miguel Martinez, Nancy Stein-Ross, Steve Richards, Suzie Katayma, Vanessa Freebairn
Double bass – Charles Nenneker, David Stone, Frances Liu Wu, Kyle Eastwood, Norman Luswin, Peter Doubrovsky, Timothy Barr
French horn – Brad Warnaar, Richard Todd
Guitar – Renzo Mantovani, Michael Stevens
Keyboards – Renzo Mantovani
Percussion – Emil Radocchina, Renzo Matroni
Piano – Mike Lang, Michael Stevens
Trombone – Arturo Velasco, Bob McChesney, Charles Loper, Phillip Teele
Trumpet – Gabriel Johnson
Viola – Dan Neufeld, Denyse Buffum, Evan Wilson, Harry Shirinian, James Ross, Jorge Moraga, Marda Todd, Margot Aldcroft
Violin – Armen Garabedian, Calabria McChesney, Caroline Cambell, Charles Everett, Charlie Bisharat, Darius Campo, Dennis Molchan, Elizabeth Wilson, Hamin Shtrum, Jennifer Munday, Joel Pargman, Mari Tsumura, Mario DeLeon, Mark Cargill, Miran Kojian, Neel Hammond, Peter Kent, Shari Zippert, Tiffany Hu, Yue Deng, Yvette Devereaux
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