Star Trek: The Motion Picture Original Soundtrack
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Label: Legacy
Magazine Review Date: 5/1999
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 130
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: 489929-2
Author: kmulhall
The original soundtrack album of Jerry Goldsmith’s milestone score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) was, unfortunately, an abbreviated disc running to 40 minutes. After many delays, Columbia Legacy has finally released an expanded edition of this sci-fi classic in time for the film’s twentieth anniversary. Featuring eight previously unreleased tracks, the new disc conveys the mythopeic impulse of Goldsmith’s programme symphony as it flows from one expressionist episode to the next. The disc opens with a lovely overture (‘Illia’s Theme’) followed by the composer’s heroic, now-famous signature theme (‘Main Title’). The A flat held at the end of this then segues brilliantly to the D flat exposition of the savagely antiphonal, rhythmically governed ‘Klingon Battle’.
These stunning precedents, however, are insufficient preparation for the six-minute ballet setting of the main theme, written for Kirk’s reunion with his beloved starship (‘The Enterprise’). Then there are the mysterious, Herrmannesque explorations through the infinite spaces of Vejur (‘The Cloud’). The new movements are equally breathtaking, whether it be the music for Spock and Vulcan (‘Total Logic’, ‘Spock’s Arrival’), elaborations of the Vejur material (‘The Force Field’), or an ephemeral piece of celestial glitter (‘Floating Office’). This essential release also includes a bonus disc of interviews with franchise creator Gene Roddenberry and original cast members. '
These stunning precedents, however, are insufficient preparation for the six-minute ballet setting of the main theme, written for Kirk’s reunion with his beloved starship (‘The Enterprise’). Then there are the mysterious, Herrmannesque explorations through the infinite spaces of Vejur (‘The Cloud’). The new movements are equally breathtaking, whether it be the music for Spock and Vulcan (‘Total Logic’, ‘Spock’s Arrival’), elaborations of the Vejur material (‘The Force Field’), or an ephemeral piece of celestial glitter (‘Floating Office’). This essential release also includes a bonus disc of interviews with franchise creator Gene Roddenberry and original cast members. '
Star Trek: The Motion Picture Original Soundtrack
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