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| 2001: A Space Odyssey - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1996 Reissue) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Various Artists, Gyorgy Ligeti, Spoken Word, Johann Ii Strauss, Richard Strauss, Clytus Gottwald, Ernest Bour, Francis Travis, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Gyoergy Ligeti, Herbert Von Karajan, Stuttgart Schola Cantorum, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Internationale Musikinstitut Darmstardt, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunk Orchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunk, Sudwest Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (35 reviews)
Sales Rank: 23793
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered, Soundtrack
Languages: English (Original Language), Russian (Original Language)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 72562
UPC: 081227256227
EAN: 0081227256227
ASIN: B0000033WB
Release Date: October 29, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Great package--appropriate for a great film September 18, 1999
13 out of 20 found this review helpful
This is supposed to be the definitive version of the soundtrack to "2001", Stanley Kubrick's landmark film. While the packaging is excellent, and the audio quality is improved, there are some problems.First, the tapes for "The Blue Danube" have aparently deteriorated so badly that the sound could not be restored in places (there is harsh, rough quality to most of the music--especially noticable in some of the louder passages). Lux Aeterna retains the muffled quality that it's always had (there are apparently very few performances of anything by Ligeti, so this may be the best --or only-- version of that piece which one is likely to run across). The flaws are actually a tribue to the superiority of the digital medium; it faithfully reproduces EXACTLY what is input. One has to remember that '2001' came out over 30 years ago, a time when audio recording was a rather primitive technical and engineering discipline, when measured against today's methods and standards. While it is superior in quantity, organization, and sound quality, to the original MGM disk, and superior in sund quality and quantity of material presented, to the Sony Special Products release, this CD package is not "perfect". In the "Jupiter and Beyond the Infitite" segment, the length of the pieces is different than that in the movie (word is that Kubrick was forced to cut almost 20 minutes from the original film, so this CD may actually be the "original" soundtrack, though it is not the final movie soundtrack). While the original movie soundrack featured Herbert Von Karajan & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's recording of "Thus Sprach Zarathustra", the original MGM soundtrack LP featured another version, by Karl Bohm & the Berlin Philharmonic. The von Karajan version was banned by MGM because some Jewish executives believed von Karajan was a Nazi collaborator. Both versions are available here, though one is incorectly credited (to the Sudwesfunk Orchestra--the people who did 'Atmospheres'). Also included here, for the first time, is "Adventures", by Gyorgi Ligeti. It's the piece heard near the end of 2001, in the Louis XIV palace setting. While it is effective in the film, without the visuals, it is like most of Ligeti's work--unmusical and just plain ridiculous (suggesting that 'minimalism' is a euphemism used by art critics to describe works with no real content or form). Personally, I think Ligeti must have laughed all the way to the bank when people actually thought his minimalist sound experiements were "music". They're not; taken as a whole, they're the aural equivalent of using chimpanzees to create paintings. Finally, the CD includes all of the dialogue involving HAL-9000, the computer. Surprisingly, it is not all that "out of place" here, although its inclusion is a bit puzzling. While this CD is flawed, I think that the flaws are minor, and can be overlooked by all but the most obsessive fanatics. What is of value is that this is the best available version of an extraordinary soundtrack to an extraordinary movie. Unlike most soundtrack CDs, this one can actually stand on its own merit as an audio work-of-art, separate and apart from the movie. It is not merely another trinket used to extract money from fans. Thus, even if one is not familiar with the film '2001', the soundtrack can still be appreciated. Unlike most movies, '2001' must seen on a big wide screen. It simply doesn't "work" on video. Like "Lawrence of Arabia", 2001's cinematic scope is a broad as its thematic and historial sweep. Let's hope that MGM decides to re-release the full director's cut of '2001', with the full soundtrack, some time before the beginning of the next century.
 A visually striking but musically botched job. July 2, 1999
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Those patiently waiting for the definitive version of Kubrick's landmark "2001" soundtrack were sadly disappointed when this beautifully packaged but seriously flawed attempt was released. Far better than the sonically sorry snippets on the original MGM disc (which substituted a Karl Bohm/Berlin Philharmonic recording for the Herbert von Karajan/Vienna Philharmonic recording of "Zarathustra" owing, apparently, to contractual problems), this is sonically superior and is more complete. But the producers and writers have been very careless; some music cues are totally botched, most lamentably in the so-called complete "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" sequence. Here Ligeti's "Atmospheres" starts several minutes before it should. Anyone even on casual terms with the film will notice the blunder. Notes aren't always correct either; the supplemental performance of the bogus "Zarathustra" from MGM disc, for example, is credited to the ensemble that performed "Atmospheres." Also, the lengthy dialogue tracks aren't helpful to anyone with a copy of the film and seem out of place here. How so much care could have been taken in some areas in the production of this disc and so little exercised in others is dumbfounding. One can only hope future editions will correct the flaws. Until then, to be totally satisfied, fanatics will have to get CDs of all the original performances heard here and mix them into their own definitive version of the "2001" soundtrack.
The Music of The Big Deep Of Space December 10, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Kubrick was thinking about a great soundtrack with "cosmic" sounds and synth music, more in the line of the sound effects of "Lost In Space" and "Star Trek". Suddenly, he threw away the 2001 Sountrack tape and picked a Strauss' Vienna Waltzes Record, and the Richard Strauss intro about Nietzche`s "Also Sprach Zarathustra".-That's It! The most perfect and natural music for the moment of truth: The gorilla-Human throwing the killer bone away and the human-Gorilla throwing the space shuttle. The most perfect metaphore of the stillness of the human behaviour, definetely. 2001 Set a precedent for movies like "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters": The utilization of classic 19th Century music.Guitarist Carlos Santana, during the presentation of 2001 in TNT Network as part of "My Favorite Movie" cycle, said that Kubrick should use african music and maybe John Coltrane and James Brown. Well, he may be right, but the effect of the space scenes in the audience would have been totally different. We always have known the classic melody line of the Blue Danube; so, the fact of using it by Kubrick was to make us feel in a known place, in a very familiar place: our planet earth and its satellite: the moon. A Stanley Kubrick Production: 2001, etc. Music By: Miles Davis. Think just what would have been that! Whew! I can speak a lot of stuff about this movie. So interesting, so little time. Write me about that! There's a lot to chat about!
one of the great movie soundtracks July 10, 1998
If you've seen the movie and loved it, you must get this albulm. That's all that needs to be said.
 Ethereal and Atmospheric June 20, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Who said classical music is boring? Okay, the film was slow in action, but because you had to think. The music helps...Ligeti's chorus pieces "Lux Aeterna" and "Atmospheres" envoke an almost frightening quality to the themes of space travel that are appropriate for the voyages into the unknown. Strauss' immortal "Also Sprach Zaruthastra" speaks for itself and the entire movie. Not the best in the way of soundtracks, but a good sampler of atmospheric classical music.
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