2001 Space Odyssey [Us Import] - Region 0 Audio CD

Description: Amazon.co.uk Review The most famous unused film score in the repertoire, Alex North's music for Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey languished in obscurity until the release of this album in 1993. Unknown to the composer, Kubrick rejected North's original compositions in favour of pre-recorded classical tracks; this revival by long-time North friend and Hollywood legend Jerry Goldsmith goes a long way toward redressing the injustice. Though the disc offers a track-by-track description of each cue, North's score is divided into two distinct parts and stands up exceptionally well when divorced from the film. The Amazon.co.uk Review
The most famous unused film score in the repertoire, Alex North's music for Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey languished in obscurity until the release of this album in 1993. Unknown to the composer, Kubrick rejected North's original compositions in favour of pre-recorded classical tracks; this revival by long-time North friend and Hollywood legend Jerry Goldsmith goes a long way toward redressing the injustice. Though the disc offers a track-by-track description of each cue, North's score is divided into two distinct parts and stands up exceptionally well when divorced from the film. The first movement is a dark, excursion into man's past. After an imaginative paraphrase of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra for the main credits, North creates an objective, primitive atmosphere in order to reflect the unforgiving nature of the prehistoric land ("The Foraging"). Part two takes the listener on a journey to a future in which technology has triumphed; the highlight of this section is "Space Station Docking", a scherzo and waltz that is both magical and impressionistic. Whether North's score would have improved Kubrick's film is a moot point--what matters is that this sublime score has now been preserved for the ages. Varese's reference-calibre recording includes the complete score and extensive programme notes. --Kevin Mulhall

From Amazon.com
This commemorative reissue of music from 2001: A Space Odyssey combines the Also sprach Zarathustra theme, various Johann and Richard Strauss segments, and a ballet suite by Aram Khachaturian--all of which prove how much Stanley Kubrick's film attempts to avoid the soundtrack clichés of most science-fiction movies. Instead of the expected sci-fi effects, there is a more ironic application of music that would be otherwise incongruous to the celestial settings. Here, "The Blue Danube" complements scenes involving weightlessness and descending spacecraft, while Gyorgy Ligeti's creepy "monolith" music connotes Armageddon more than interplanetary exploration. The tracks play as they had appeared on the original soundtrack release back in the '60s, but there is also previously unreleased supplemental material and a dialog montage entitled "HAL 9000." --Joseph Lanza

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Manufacturer: Rhino
Release date: 23 December 1999
EAN: 0081227256227 UPC: 081227256227

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