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This
is the 3000 unit limited collectors edition of the CD release
of the original soundtrack recording of music from the 1968 film
Ice Station Zebra.
This exciting Cold War thriller follows a U.S.
submarine and its mysterious British passenger on a top-secret
mission to the North Pole.
Based on a novel by Alistair MacLean,
the film features fine performances by Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan,
Ernest Borgnine and anall-male supporting cast. The combination
of realistic military protocol and high-adventure espionage --
as well as groundbreaking special effects and production design
-- won the film many admirers, among them the late Howard Hughes.
Michel
Legrand was best-known for pop-based scores like The Umbrellas
of Cherbourg and The Thomas Crown Affair, but was no less creative
and dynamic in the symphonic Hollywood idiom (The Three Musketeers).
His score for Ice Station Zebra is at once epic yet also offbeat,
with powerful main themes dressed in an intricate web of mystery
and suspense. The film is first and foremost a military story,
but in Legrand's hands it becomes almost like a Cold War ballet,
with a polished, artistic sheen to its danger.
Legrand himself
provided the terrific orchestrations and conducted the 75-piece
orchestra in a five-channel stereo recording.
Ice Station Zebra
was released on LP at the time of the film, a 30:14 program reissued
on CD by Pendulum Entertainment Group in 1997 (now out-of-print).
This new release of the complete score runs 79:20 (including deleted
cues), is resequenced into film order, and remixed from the original
master elements for significantly improved sound.
This is the definitive
presentation of the Ice Station Zebra soundtrack.
1. Overture 2:48
2. Main Title/Satellite/Jones Arrives/All Aboard 10:17
3. Voyage Starts/Russian Trawler
4. Wrong Bunk/The Mysterious Rendezvous
5. Opaque Water
6. Under the Ice
7. Bring Her Up/Tigerfish Hits Ice/Intermission Card
8. Entr'Acte/Crewman Falls Into Crevasse/Tigerfish Submerges
9. Jones Searches Meteorology Lab
10. Unidentified Aircraft/Russian Planes
11. Jones Finds Detector
12. Anders Shot
13. Russian Paratroops Land
14. Vaslov Opens Capsule
15. Ostrovsky and Ferraday Face Each Other/Colored Smoke/Balloon Explodes/End Title and Credits
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