5013929333802

Kubricks Music ~ Selections From The Films Of Stanley Kubrick

Various Artists

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: ACME338BOX

Release Date:  28 September 2018

Label:  El / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  5013929333802

Genres:  Soundtracks  

  • Description

    Stanley Kubrick's audacious use of music was one of the aspects that distinguished his films. He handled music with sensitivity, invention and respect and it resulted in the creation of some of the most indelible scenes in cinema history..Three that spring to mind. The use of Vera Lynn's 'We'll Meet Again' over a ninety-second montage of nuclear explosions that closes Dr. Strangelove; the deployment of Strauss waltzes to create an elegant cosmic ballet during the docking sequence in 2001, and the highly controversial use of Gene Kelly's 'Singin' in the Rain' during the attack on F. Alexander and his wife by Alex and his Droogs in A Clockwork Orange.

    Our presentation comprises musical selections from Kubrick's central masterpieces, complimented by pieces which the director used as 'temp tracks' during the production and by all accounts with every intention of using these in the film, only to decide to replace them late on. In 2001, the scherzo from Felix Mendelssohn's 'Midsummer Night's Dream' (used for scenes of weightlessness) and Vaughan Williams 'Antarctica Suite' (for the Stargate effects and scenes on the moon) were both used in preview showings of the film before being discarded. While on Eyes Wide Shut, Wagner's 'Lieder Im Triebhaus' ('In the Greenhouse') from Wesendonck Lieder was a significant theme in the production for more than a year before being replaced.

    We have also assembled the complete vintage ballroom music from The Shining. The final movement from Berlioz's 'Symphonie Fantastique', with its epic use of the chant from the Roman Catholic Requiem mass, the 'Dies Irae', and a Sibelius piece, 'Valse Triste'. Both were important to the evolution of the film..Finally, as a young man, Stanley Kubrick fell in love with Sergi Prokofiev's score for the Sergei Eisenstein's first sound film, Alexander Nevsky. He played it to death, and it would inspire him later in his own use of dramatic music. From the scintillating recording by Fritz Reiner with the Chicago SO, we include the movement.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. La Marseillaise
      • 2. KÃœnstlerleben (Artist's Life) Walzer, Op. 316
      • 3. Main Title (Love Theme From Lolita)
      • 4. Quilty's Theme
      • 5. Arrival In Town
      • 6. Lolita Ya Ya
      • 7. Love Theme From Lolita
      • 8. Humbert Comtemplates Killing Wife
      • 9. Discovery Of Diary
      • 10. Two Beat Society
      • 11. Thoughts Of Lolita
      • 12. School Dance
      • 13. Mother And Humbert At Dinner (Music To Eat By)
      • 14. End Title (Love Theme From Lolita)
      • 15. Polonaise In A Major, Op. 40 No. 3 - Piano
      • 16. Learnin' The Blues
      • 17. Lolita Ya-Ya
      • 18. Turn Off The Moon
      • 19. Try A Little Tenderness
      • 20. Greensleeves
      • 21. We'll Meet Again

      Disc 2

      • 1. Also Sprach Zarathustra
      • 2. An Der SchÖnen Blauen Donau, Op. 314 (The Blue Danube Waltz)
      • 3. Gayane Ballet Suite (Adagio)
      • 4. Off Beat Moods - Part 1
      • 5. Daisy Bell
      • 6. Midsummer Night's Dream (Scherzo)
      • 7. Prelude (Andante Maestoso) From Symphony 7 (Sinfonia Antartica)
      • 8. Spartacus (Main Title)
      • 9. Spartacus Love Theme
      • 10. Gladiators Fight To The Death
      • 11. Blue Shadows And Purple Hills
      • 12. Homeward Bound A: On To The Sea / B: Beside The Pool
      • 13. Hopeful Preparations, Vesuvius Camp
      • 14. Prelude To Battle A: Quiet Interlude / B: The Final Conflict
      • 15. On To Vesuvius A: Forward, Gladiators / B: Forest Meeting
      • 16. Oysters And Snails - Festival
      • 17. Headed For Freedom
      • 18. Goodbye My Life, My Love – End Title

      Disc 3

      • 1. March From Music For The Funeral Of Queen Mary
      • 2. The Thieving Magpie
      • 3. Ninth Symphony, Second Movement (Molto Vivace)
      • 4. William Tell Overture
      • 5. Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement (Presto)
      • 6. The Sea And Sinbad's Ship From Scheherazade
      • 7. Pomp And Circumstance, March No.1
      • 8. Pomp And Circumstance, March No.4
      • 9. Singin' In The Rain
      • 10. The Battle On The Ice From Alexander Nevsky

      Disc 4

      • 1. Sarabande From Harpsichord Suite In D Minor
      • 2. March From Idomeneo
      • 3. The Cavatina Saper Bramate From The Barber Of Seville
      • 4. Piano Trio In E Flat Op. 100 (Section Of Second Movement) (Andante Con Moto)
      • 5. Impromptus Opus 90 No. 1 (Section)
      • 6. Cello Concerto In E Minor (Third Movement) (Lento Ed Espressivo)
      • 7. Adagio From Concerto For Two Harpsichords And Orchestra In C-Minor
      • 8. Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta
      • 9. Masquerade
      • 10. Midnight, The Stars, And You
      • 11. It's All Forgotten Now
      • 12. Home
      • 13. Dream Of A Witches Sabbath From Symphonie Fantastique
      • 14. Valse Triste
      • 15. When I Fall In Love
      • 16. I Only Have Eyes For You
      • 17. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
      • 18. Rex Tremendae From The Requiem
      • 19. Nuages Gris (Grey Clouds)
      • 20. Lieder Im Triebhaus (In The Greenhouse)