Deer Hunter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack] [Soundtrack]

deer hunter: original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack] [soundtrack]

On this CD:

Cavatina (from "The Deer Hunter")
Composed by Stanley Myers
with John [guitar] Williams

Praise the Name of the Lord (Psalm 134)
Composed by Russian Orthodox Chant

Troika, Russian folk song
Composed by Russian Traditional

Katyusha
Composed by Russian Traditional

The Deer Hunter, film score Struggling Ahead
Composed by Stanley Myers

The Deer Hunter, film score Sarabande
Composed by Stanley Myers
with John [guitar] Williams

The Deer Hunter, film score Waiting His Turn
Composed by Stanley Myers

Eternal memory
Composed by Russian Traditional

God Bless America, song
Composed by Irving Berlin

The Deer Hunter, film score Cavatina (Reprise)
Composed by Stanley Myers
with John [guitar] Williams

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Deer Hunter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack] [Soundtrack]

Average customer rating:

A true modern classic
what a truly haunting score
nocturne number 6
Favorite song not on the soundtrack
A Huge Disappointment for a wonderful movie score

Deer Hunter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000DR9S
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Cavatina
Praise The Name Of The Lord
Troika
Katyusha
Struggling Ahead
Sarabande
Waiting His Turn
Memory Eternal
God Bless America
Cavatina (Reprise)

Customer Reviews:

A true modern classic.......2007-01-18

The title track alone to Michael Cimino's film "The Deer Hunter" makes it a worthwhile purchase.

Truth be told, you're not getting too much more than that. The three significant guitar pieces on this album (composed by Stanley Myers) are the title theme, the Sarabande, and a reprise of the title music (in a slightly longer and fuller arrangement).

The Sarabande is lovely, and comparatively underrated, but it's just not quite in the same league as its companion.

The Russian Orthodox choral pieces, while also good, are recorded live and thus lack the careful intonation and clean sound of studio versions.

The folks songs "Katyusha" and "Troika" are performed energetically. They also have, for better or worse, all the shouting, stamping, clapping, whistling, and audience sing-along that goes with a good live performance.

Finally, "Struggling Ahead" and "Waiting His Turn" are short, comparatively minor variations on the theme music that underscore particular scenes, just as good film music is supposed to do.

Now, here's what the soundtrack album doesn't have that it SHOULD:
(A) Frankie Valli singing "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You." The boys in the bar horse around to this song.
(B) Bobby Bare singing "Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life." When the boys return to the bar after their hunting trip, they drunkenly sing this.
(C) Frederic Chopin's sixth nocturne for piano (Opus 15, Number 3), in g minor. John the bartender plays it (just the first section, actually) just as the movie shifts from Pennsylvania to Vietnam.
All three of these pieces are significant in establishing the movie's moods. (Just like the simple, hymnlike version "God, Bless America," which IS found here.) Why in the world they were omitted from the soundtrack album, I can't figure.

That said, this album is still absolutely worth it. The theme music, published under the title "Cavatina," has become classical guitarist John Williams's signature piece. ("Cavatina," in case you're wondering, is an Italian musical term meaning a sustained melody or simple song.) It's been recorded many, many times since by other admiring musicians (in arrangements good, bad, and horrible). I suspect music lovers will be falling in love with it a hundred years from now. I've found the piece on other albums, but to me the two soundtrack versions -- particularly the concluding reprise -- remain, all told, the best combination of arrangement and performance. (Williams has also arranged this piece for solo guitar. The soundtrack recording benefits from a gently subdued strings-and-woodwind orchestral backing.)

By the way, people have rightly wondered why Myers's score didn't win an Oscar when "The Deer Hunter" did so well otherwise at that year's Academy Awards. It may be because (as I understand it) Stanley Myers had actually composed the piece several years earlier, and had even used it in another movie, titled "The Walking Stick." It apparently just hadn't grabbed people's attention yet. So guitarist John Williams deserves major credit for recognizing and championing this beautiful composition until people finally sat up and listened.

what a truly haunting score.......2006-05-28

This motion picture had such an emotional impact on me when I saw it back in the early '80s that it left me totally drained, and I was never able to get the haunting guitar out of my head.

As far as the music goes on this CD, it wasn't the entire score I was in love with (& needed to hear again), but a yearning, instead, to hear John "Guitar" Williams' awesome guitar playing.

Unfortunately, you only get three numbers by this great guitarist, three. I still love what the man does, but it is hardly enough.

I guess I'll have to either keep playing the same three tunes over and over, or else buy some more CDs by him.

nocturne number 6.......2006-04-17

thank you all for identifying this gorgeous piece of music. it's truly magical. i can't believe how many people it has touched. again thank you.i've been looking for it for years.

Favorite song not on the soundtrack.......2005-12-09

The scene when they're in the bar, just before they leave for vietnam, there's an emotional piano instrumental. Its not on the soundtrack, so if you're looking for it, its by Frederic Chopin, called Nocturne Number 6, Opus 15-3, in g minor.

A Huge Disappointment for a wonderful movie score.......2005-02-15

All I can say is what a ripoff. I think this soundtrack runs less than 15 minutes--what a lost opportunity. Not only are the scores way too short--but the most two vital songs/socres--"I Love you Baby--not only at the tavern but also as part of the wedding festivals--and even more importantly, the score whose name I don't know--after the deer hunt and the most poignant moment in the films--the score in the tavern where a classical piece is played and all the boys go into the deepest moments of intimacy in the entire film--none of this is part of the sound track.

I love the film, looked forward to the soundtrack--and felt I (and others) were totally ripped off.

The Deer Hunter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Average customer rating:

CHOPIN
What song?
Wonderful, beautiful, lovely, music.
Beautiful guitar work by John Williams on Cavatina.

The Deer Hunter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Stanley Myers
Manufacturer: Indent Series
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005JMC
Release Date: 1996-07-23

Tracks:

Cavatina
Praise the Name of the Lord
Troika
Katyusha
Struggling Ahead
Sarabande
Waiting His Turn
'Memory Eternal
God Bless America
Catavina

Customer Reviews:

CHOPIN.......2003-02-06

"Haunting"is the word for this soundtrack to a tragicaly beautiful movie about love and friendship,that's right,not war, it's about love for one another.That "BEAUTIFUL" piano piece is Chopin -Nocturne No.3 Op.15 in G.

What song?.......1999-05-12

What was the name of the song played on the piano in the bar, just before the movie changed places to Vietnam?

Wonderful, beautiful, lovely, music........1999-05-05

I loved the movie and music. My very all time favorite movie and music. I have tried and tried to buy the music and can't find it. It is the type of music that I love to sit and just think.

Beautiful guitar work by John Williams on Cavatina........1999-05-01

Unforgetable guitar recording by John Williams on Cavatina. It will bring a tear to your eyes. I bought the CD for this song.

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