| | Planet Of The Apes (1968) (Varese Sarabande) Soundtrack CD (1 Customer Review)
The soundtrack to PLANET OF THE APES has been issued on several labels, but the Varese Sarabande edition is the natural pick. It includes previously unreleased material, new cover art and liner notes, a suite from the 1971 sequel ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, Alfred Newman's famous "Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare," and the original score in its entirety with newly remixed and remastered sound. Jerry Goldsmith's score sounds as fresh and startling today as it did on the film's 1968 release.
Clearly influenced by modernist composers like Bartok and Stavinsky, Goldsmith employs fragmented phrases, jarring rhythms, dissonance, and the use of silence as a compositional device. The themes are both primitive and futuristic, and are conjured with tension-filled ostinatos on piano and plucked strings, simple woodwind phrases, a bass slide whistle, and ragged, echoing percussion. There are few moments of reprieve in the score; the music reflects the film's depiction of an off-kilter reality, and even low-key selections (like "A New Mate") are underscored by an ominous mood. A stark, intense, and highly experimental piece of music, PLANET OF THE APES achieves the genuine otherworldliness to which most science fiction soundtracks only aspire.
This is part of Varese Sarabande's Fox Classics series.
Jerry Goldsmith
All music written by Jerry Goldsmith.
Audio Remixer: Brian Risner.
Personnel includes: Jerry Goldsmith (conductor).
Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.44) - Ranked #94 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...Avant-garde, impressionistic soundscapes influenced by Stravinsky and Bartok, yet wholly original..."
Mojo (Publisher) (6/02, p.65) - Included in Mojo's "100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks" - "...Film soundtracks' abstract nature can often seem quite experimental. This is one of the best of this type..." Planet Of The Apes (1968) (Varese Sarabande) Soundtrack Music Planet Of The Apes (1968) (Varese Sarabande) Soundtrack Songs
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| |   | 1. | Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare | |
| 2. | Main Title | |
| 3. | Crash Landing - (previously unreleased) | |
| 4. | Searchers - (previously unreleased) | |
| 5. | Search Continues, The | |
| 6. | Clothes Snatchers, The | |
| 7. | Hunt, The | |
| 8. | New Mate, A | |
| 9. | Revelation, The | |
| 10. | No Escape | |
| 11. | Trial - (previously unreleased) | |
| 12. | New Identity | |
| 13. | Bid for Freedom, A | |
| 14. | Forbidden Zone, The | |
| 15. | Intruders - (previously unreleased) | |
| 16. | Cave, The | |
| 17. | Revelation, Pt. 2 - (previously unreleased, part 2) | |
| 18. | Suite - (previously unreleased) | |
| Planet Of The Apes (1968) (Varese Sarabande) Soundtrack Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  An Incredible, Haunting Score.
An important Hollywood newcomer who had a tremendous impact on film scoring during the 1960s was American-born Jerry Goldsmith. From the beginning of his career, Goldsmith was willing to take risks and compose against the grain of the movie's story. He did the music for two movies starring Sidney Poitier, "Lillies of the Field" (1963) and "A Patch of Blue" (1965), as well as scoring John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" (1966), a disturbing psychological drama with an excepitionally downbeat ending, to which Goldsmith counterpointed an orderly and serene score. Goldsmith's greatest triumph during the 1960s, however, was his pulsating symphonic score for Franklin J. Schaffner's 1968 science-fiction masterpiece "Planet of the Apes". The score won him wide critical acclaim as well as lavash praise from the movie industry, including an Academy Award nomination. Goldsmith's music was regarded as an absolutely necessary element of the movie and critical to the box-office success of Schaffner's bizarre fantasy.
Submitted by filmfactsman (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
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