2001: A Space Odyessey - Soundtrack?

If you mean the movie sound track?

Its available on many CDs and vinyl.

Are you the same Lewis that had Georges Royd Minstrels a few years ago?

You can get the score used in the film - all the classical music that Kubrick temped to and then kept in the film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2..._Odyssey_(soundtrack)

Or if you are feeling brave, Jerry Goldsmith doing the conducting /recording of Alex North's rejected score or the actual Alex North score that Intrada released.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...Space_Odyssey_(score)

The classical is easier to get than the rejected score, which I think is out of print.

Hi, I like to collect poignant film soundtracks, and for 2001 Space Odyssey I have this CD copy

http://www.amazon.co.uk/2001-O...e+odyssey+soundtrack

My favourite track  is HAL 9000 - which is not musical .. Wel almost if you exclude HAL regressing to its singing of Daisy, Daisy .... 

No, and even if I was, what of it?

Ah yes, I think the version I have on Spotify is by Stanley black, where the 1min 53sec intro merges into that relaxed waltz song.  I thought it was all one track you see.

Hi, I like to collect poignant film soundtracks, and for 2001 Space Odyssey I have this CD copy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/2001-O...e+odyssey+soundtrack
My favourite track  is HAL 9000 - which is not musical .. Wel almost if you exclude HAL regressing to its singing of Daisy, Daisy ....

Simon, I went to see Interstellar at the BFI IMAX last week and I've been listening to Hans Zimmer's score on repeat ever since. Haunting, mystical and emotional with more than a few nods to Strauss/2001 (and to Philip Glass). Is this in your collection yet?

Originally Posted by Simon-in-Suffolk:

Hi, I like to collect poignant film soundtracks, and for 2001 Space Odyssey I have this CD copy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/2001-O...e+odyssey+soundtrack
My favourite track  is HAL 9000 - which is not musical .. Wel almost if you exclude HAL regressing to its singing of Daisy, Daisy ....

Simon, I went to see Interstellar at the BFI IMAX last week and I've been listening to Hans Zimmer's score on repeat ever since. Haunting, mystical and emotional with more than a few nods to Strauss/2001 (and to Philip Glass). Is this in your collection yet?

The problem with Interstellar is there are 3 versions of the Album.

1) The 1 Disc CD

2) The iTunes digital with extra tracks, but 'lossy'

3) A US only, deluxe 2 CD with 30 mins more than the iTunes, but no track listing released yet.

Also they 'missed' the docking scene music, which will be a free download (lossy) from Zimmer's site in the near future.

To check out the Paramount FYC site for tracks http://www.paramountguilds.com/interstellar/score/ 

But yes, the one disc is a fine listen

Originally Posted by Simon-in-Suffolk:

Hi, I like to collect poignant film soundtracks, and for 2001 Space Odyssey I have this CD copy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/2001-O...e+odyssey+soundtrack
My favourite track  is HAL 9000 - which is not musical .. Wel almost if you exclude HAL regressing to its singing of Daisy, Daisy ....

Simon, I went to see Interstellar at the BFI IMAX last week and I've been listening to Hans Zimmer's score on repeat ever since. Haunting, mystical and emotional with more than a few nods to Strauss/2001 (and to Philip Glass). Is this in your collection yet?

I saw this a few weeks ago and did exactly that!  Amazing film and magical soundtrack.  Really immerses you doesn't it.

Yes, I have read about the now infamous "missing docking scene" music and the furore over the varied releases. I think the 1-disc CD gives you the essence of the soundtrack, and you can listen to the docking music ("No Time For Caution") and the other extra tracks on the "deluxe" version on Spotify.

Totally agree, Lewis. It's playing (again) now, I'm just going for another trip into the wormhole...

Ha ha...can I have some of what you're smoking?

Although I know what you mean.  The movie was like an acid trip without drugs, the music really made you feel as if you were there....most enjoyable.

To put a bit more detail on what has been said, the opening fanfare (just under two minutes) from 2001 used in the sunrise sequence is the beginning of Richard Strauss's tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra from 1896, based on Nietzsche's writings on the nature of the death of God and the emergence of what he called the Uebermench (usually translated, perhaps oddly to our ears, as 'superman').

The whole piece runs for about 30 minutes and is quite well known in classical circles so you should be able to locate many good recordings of it. If you find so many that choosing one seems tricky, I would recommend this:

(Telarc CD-80167)

A fabulous performance, first-rate recording in Vienna's Musikverein hall from 1987, and the second piece - Tod und Verklaerung (Death and Transfiguration) - is very good too, including a theme which bears an interesting resemblance to John Williams' love theme from the 1978 Superman film.

Mark

CBS did a rip-off version of the soundtrack back then, with versions of the classical stuff whipped from their catalogue, but amongst this wasa rare gem - a suite from Blomdahl's space opera Aniara. I used to have it and it was lovely, filling the whole of side two if I remember correctly. As a penniless student/idiot I sold it, and it's never been issued since. The opera itself is on Spotify and is mostly rubbish, but my memories of that orchestral suite are up there with the Ligeti....