Gettysburg Soundtrack CD

This fifth anniversary edition of the GETTYSBURG soundtrack includes 60 minutes of previously unreleased music.

Gettysburg was an ambitious epic detailing one of the most famous battles in the American Civil War. Appropriately, the soundtrack is grand, dramatic, and stirring. In fact, the incidental music works better as an individual entity than most soundtracks and is arguably more compelling than portions of the overly long movie. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

It seems a little strange to be celebrating a fifth anniversary, especially for a movie that was a box office disappointment and earned only a following so small that it could be barely called a cult. Strangely enough, a bigger cult formed around Randy Edelman's score, and that explains the release of Gettysburg: Special Fifth Anniversary Deluxe Commemorative Edition, a double-disc set packaged like a book that features new liner notes, unreleased photos, the Gettysburg Address as read by Jeff Daniels, and over an hour of unreleased music. For true fans of the score and film, this is absolutely essential, but for anyone curious about the music, the original single-disc remains the best way to become acquainted with this wonderful score. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

All music written by Randy Edelman.

Original score composed by Randy Edelman.

Includes liner notes by Ted Turner.