Name: 2001: Music From the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Brand: Silva America
SKU: 899022
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2001

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Album: 2001: Music From the Films of Stanley Kubrick
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 (TrV 176): Opening
2)	Spartacus, film score: Main Title
3)	Spartacus, film score: Love Theme
4)	Suite for keyboard (Suite de piece), Vol.2, No.4 in D minor, HWV 437: Sarabande
5)	Women of Ireland (Mn na h-Eireann)
6)	Ode to Joy (An die Freude)
7)	Full Metal Jacket, film score: Themes
8)	Shining, film score, The (1980): Main Theme
9)	Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2: Waltz No. 2
10)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: The Killing, film: Main Title/The Robbery
11)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: Killer's Kiss, film: Murder 'mongst the Mannikins
12)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: Fear and Desire, film: A Meditation on War
13)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: Fear and Desire, film: Madness
14)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: Paths of Glory, film: The Patrol
15)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: Day of the Fight, film: March of the Gloved Gladiators
16)	Lolita Love Theme (for the film Lolita, 1962): Love Theme
17)	Dr. Strangelove, film score: The Bomb Run
18)	der sch”nen, blauen Donau, An (On the Beautiful, Blue Danube), waltz for orchestra (with chorus ad lib), Op. 314 (RV 314)

Album: 2001: Music From the Films of Stanley Kubrick
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 (TrV 176): Opening
2)	Spartacus, film score: Main Title
3)	Spartacus, film score: Love Theme
4)	Suite for keyboard (Suite de piece), Vol.2, No.4 in D minor, HWV 437: Sarabande
5)	Women of Ireland (Mn na h-Eireann)
6)	Ode to Joy (An die Freude)
7)	Full Metal Jacket, film score: Themes
8)	Shining, film score, The (1980): Main Theme
9)	Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2: Waltz No. 2
10)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: The Killing, film: Main Title/The Robbery
11)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: Killer's Kiss, film: Murder 'mongst the Mannikins
12)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: Fear and Desire, film: A Meditation on War
13)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: Fear and Desire, film: Madness
14)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: Paths of Glory, film: The Patrol
15)	Suite from the Early Films of Stanley Kubrick, for orchestra: Day of the Fight, film: March of the Gloved Gladiators
16)	Lolita Love Theme (for the film Lolita, 1962): Love Theme
17)	Dr. Strangelove, film score: The Bomb Run
18)	der sch”nen, blauen Donau, An (On the Beautiful, Blue Danube), waltz for orchestra (with chorus ad lib), Op. 314 (RV 314)

Performer Notes

Personnel: V clav Sykora (tin whistle); Jaroslava Eliasova (piano); Gareth Williams (harpsichord).
Liner Note Authors: David Wishart; Gerald Fried.
Recording information: Barrandov Studios, Smecky Sound Stage, Prague, Czech Re; Whitfield Street Studio, London, England.
Editor: Gareth Williams.
Arrangers: Gerald Fried; Mark Ayres; Paul Bateman .
Now, here's a curiosity. Although there isn't any acknowledgement in the album's credits, Silva Screen Records' 2005 release 2001: Music From the Films of Stanley Kubrick, which typically employs the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra to re-create that music (along with Mark Ayres doing the electronic honors on Beethoven's Ode to Joy from A Clockwork Orange and the themes from Full Metal Jacket and The Shining), is a slightly re-jiggered reissue of the label's 1999 album Dr. Strangelove: Music From the Films of Stanley Kubrick. That album, released in the year of Kubrick's death and of the release of his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, did not contain any music associated with that last opus. This one adds Shostakovich's Waltz From Jazz Suite No. 2, used in the picture, such that it can claim to include excerpts from the music for all of Kubrick's major films. It also adds a version of Alex North's "Love Theme" from Spartacus. But it deletes from the earlier release three tracks that must have been licensed from other sources: the Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird" (used in Full Metal Jacket), Ray Noble's "Midnight, the Stars and You" (used in The Shining), and Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" (used in Dr. Strangelove). The result is a more consistent, if less varied collection, mixing Kubrick's interest in classical music (Richard Strauss, Handel, and Johann Strauss II are also called upon) with the work of screen composers like North and Wendy Carlos. Particularly prominent is Gerald Fried, who scored five of Kubrick's early films and who conducts a suite of six cues drawn from them. The album gives a good sense of Kubrick's musical taste, making it a worthwhile effort, as long as one doesn't already own the earlier album. ~ William Ruhlmann

Professional Reviews

Mojo (Publisher) (p.103) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]his is an exercise in polished style."