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| Barry Lyndon | 
 enlarge | Creators: Original Soundtrack, Pierre Fournier, Johann Sebastian Bach, Disa English, King Of Prussia Frederick The Great, George Frederick Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sean O Riada, Giovanni Paisiello, Franz Schubert, English Traditional, Irish Traditional, Antonio Vivaldi, Leonard Rosenman, Leslie Pearson, Rudolf Baumgartner, Lucerne Festival Strings, Munich Bach Orchestra, Derek Bell, Hedwig Bilgram
Label: Warner Bros UK
Category: Music
Buy New: $130.00
Buy Used from $130.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  (17 reviews)
Sales Rank: 107577
Format: Soundtrack, Import
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 075992598422
EAN: 0075992598422
ASIN: B000006SR1
Release Date: October 20, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
As Elegant as the Movie Itself. August 6, 2002
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
When dealing with a picture as visually stunning as Stanley Kubrick's 1975 coffeetable period epic "Barry Lyndon," you need a soundtrack that's just as engaging. Unlike most filmmakers, who typically use only one composer, Kubrick used several for this movie, and they all show up on this album that will impress fans of the movie and classical snobs alike. My tracks of choice are the "Sarabarde Main Title," "Cello Concerto E Minor," and my very favorite "Piano Trio in E Flat," which is played when Redmond Barry meets the Lady Lyndon. I don't in any way pose as a classical guru, but I know a good soundtrack when I hear it. The score on this CD apparently won a 1976 Academy Award for Best Musical Score, and for good reason. "Barry Lyndon" is one of my favorite soundtracks ever.
A Perfect Match July 17, 2001
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I cannot think of a better example of a soundtrack wedded to a movie than Barry Lyndon. If you haven't seen the movie and you enjoy "classical" music, you will enjoy the selections nonetheless; also, excellent Irish folk music (instrumental only) contributed by The Chieftains. My personal favorite on the CD is the fife and drum rendition of The British Grenadiers. Listen to it at 3/4 volume and you'll want to go to war. As far as the movie itself, it's the Kubrick I watch with the kids. Kubrik's best.
Just wonderful!! January 8, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The drums in British Grenadiers pound in your chest. For the first time you realize this really was music to make war by. Sarabande was artfully chosen as the fate theme. It worked magnificently, both as a funeral dirge for Barry's beloved little son and the background of the duel Barry later fought with his stepson. Hohenfriedburger March was the perfect choice to preface Barry's adventures with the Prussian military. Cello Concerto in E Minor set the mood for the sad situation of the Lady Lyndon, Barry's astonishingly beautiful and wealthy spouse. I can't imagine anyone being disappointed with this CD.
Breathtaking! July 4, 2000
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I loved this soundtrack! I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys immersing themselves in classical music and cinematic emotion! It provides thrills with the traditional Irish jigs and makes the heart leap at the sound of the flutes! The Piano Trio provides a sweeping, romantic atmosphere, and for those who know and love the film, Sarabande carries its own weight in stirring the emotions! Bravissimi!
A beautiful, elegant soundtrack May 26, 2000
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have only seen the Kubrick film, once, but I have listened to the soundtrack many times. I am delighted to see it released on CD.As with any successful soundtrack, this one compliments the story while maintaining a lyric theme, throughout. The work chosen to restate this theme is Sarabande, which is varied in presentation throughout the film and soundtrack-- with striking success. There is not much that I can add to the other reviews which address the strangely successful interplay of Handel and Vivaldi with the Chieftains, save to comment that this is the essence of the film's story: upstart hedge-school Irish with presumptions to refinement. Don't bother with angry e-mails. It's concededly my own family heritage. Finally, we need to keep in mind that _Barry Lyndon_ is set in an era when the term, "officer and gentleman," was said without a sneer, and the "limited warfare" of the 18th Century forms part of the framework of the story. That being said, the military music on this album is performed with stirring realism that puts to shame many albums specifically devoted to martial music. If you have seen the film, then you appreciate the emotional impact of "The British Grenadiers," which is rendered, here, not as a child's school yard tune, but as the martial accompaniment to a terrifying frontal attack against massed musketry. I commend both film and sountrack to students of history, and to "upstarts" like myself.
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