> This score is highly idiosyncratic due to the fact that the composer use
> many types of instuments in an unusual way : this means that the composer
> using talented hapsichord and flute players to give fast and uptempo
> rhytms to the musical palette of the soundtrack in order to illustrate the
> uneasiness and tensions among Tony Blair and the members of the Royal
> Family and the British public, but he also using electronic devices,
> brasses and strings to give soft or powerful rhythms as accompaniment for
> the emotions of the main characters. This said, the Queen is recommended
> for those people who are open to hear unusual music.

I didn't think it was that unusual. You can't really have a harpsichord playing another way than the way it sounded in the film. What I did like was the way Desplat merged baroque-sounding instruments and modern musical palettes to convet the notion of old and new colliding: an old institution like the Royal Family being forced to modernise by the will of the public. Very clever.