The Hunt For Red October: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

the hunt for red october: music from the original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

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The Hunt for Red October and Crimson Tide mark the swan songs of a long-standing genre: the cold-war-theme action thriller (and its subgenre, the nuclear-submarine-threat potboiler). Given the music here, composer Basil Poledouris must have sensed the end was nigh, for he pulls no punches. Poledouris (who seemingly wrote the score to Red Dawn as a warm-up exercise) has created a full-bodied orchestral swashbuckler with a male chorus (singing in Russian, of course) to boot; a modern take on the Erich Korngold/Errol Flynn film sensibility that ably demonstrates there's still life in those traditions. --Jerry McCulley

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The Hunt For Red October: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

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Excellent Music
Some things in here don't react to well to bullets!!
Remembering Poledouris
Like watching the movie again
If You like it loud & in Russian this is for you

The Hunt For Red October: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Basil Poledouris
Manufacturer: Mca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002O7C
Release Date: 1990-07-12

Tracks:

Hymn To Red October
Nuclear Scam
Putin's Demise
Course Two-Five-Zero
Ancestral Aid
Chopper
Two Wives
Red Route I
Plane Crash
Kaboom!!!

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The Hunt for Red October and Crimson Tide mark the swan songs of a long-standing genre: the cold-war-theme action thriller (and its subgenre, the nuclear-submarine-threat potboiler). Given the music here, composer Basil Poledouris must have sensed the end was nigh, for he pulls no punches. Poledouris (who seemingly wrote the score to Red Dawn as a warm-up exercise) has created a full-bodied orchestral swashbuckler with a male chorus (singing in Russian, of course) to boot; a modern take on the Erich Korngold/Errol Flynn film sensibility that ably demonstrates there's still life in those traditions. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Music .......2007-03-05

I bought the Hunt for Red October Soundtrack mostly just for the first track: "Hymn to the Red October". This track is really excellent though perhaps somewhat repetitive. However, I found that this was not the only good track on the CD with my favorites being track 2, "Nuclear Scam" which brings back at the end the theme from "Hymn to the Red October" with some other cool new themes. Also track 5, "Ancestral Aid" is dramatic which you can tell from the Amazon sample. There is only just over 30 minutes of music on this CD, and tracks 1 and 2 are close to half the CD, so I think that my purchase was well worth it, as I enjoy immensely the music brought here. If you enjoy Russian Coral work, as well as beautifully done orchestral work (with brass, woodwind, and percussion emphasis in different tracks), then I think you will enjoy this CD.

Some things in here don't react to well to bullets!!.......2007-01-10

A great soundtrack recording to the best submarine movie of the late
20th century.

Listen to Ryan and Ramius discuss their strategy, the North Atlantic
hunt, and silent run through Red Route 1.

Remembering Poledouris.......2006-11-11

In the light of Basil Poledouris's passing, right now I'm finding myself listening to one of his better works: "The Hunt For Red October".
The album opens with 'Hymn For Red October', Poledouris's best main title after Conan's. The Russian chant gives this theme its power, although I fought with a couple of friends who were supportive of James Horner's Russian song in the main and end credits of "Red Heat"; but I have always considered Red October to be a great song. There are intimate moments in this album that give us a break from the coming action, and they are better displayed in 'Two Wives', a cue that was never used in the film. Another great moment is 'Ancestral Aid', where the Russian chorus burst in fury, showcasing the scene where the Red October manages to escape from a pursuing torpedo, and later coming to a calm, yet chilling second half. And the action cues are a real treat here: I love the crescendos in the track 'Chopper', a track that truly makes the listener feel he/she is on board a helicopter. 'Nuclear Scam' is also quite impressive if we think that the Russian submarine's crew escapes from a fake nuclear accident. Finally, we have 'Kaboom!', a relentless cue that makes us sweat, feeling that we're being chased by a submarine. In general, this is a good work by the late Basil Poledouris.
The only letdown, however, is the running time of thirty minutes of the whole album, probably because there is not much music in the movie. In fact, as great as it sounds, the track 'Course Two-Five-Zero' is too short to be really appreciated at twenty one seconds. Yet, if you want to appreciate one fine work from this fine composer, who left us recently, "The Hunt For Red October" might be your CD.

Like watching the movie again.......2006-11-03

I was only interested in Hymn to Red October but the whole cd turned out to be much better than I expected.

If You like it loud & in Russian this is for you.......2006-09-21

This is no"masterpiece"..Perhaps all of the Russian choral work reflects the theme,although there is as much that is non-Russian going on in this film as there is that concerns the doings aboard the Russian submarine..And isn't it a bit hackneyed to load up a film that has to do with the cold-war era Russian military with russian language singing?Why not just insert bits from "Boris Gudunov"or a Russian easter service te deum?Sorry,but when not writing "action" noise cues or letting the Russian vocal chorus do it's thing,this soundtrack has very little to offer...

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