Where Eagles Dare/Operation Crossbow [Soundtrack]

where eagles dare/operation crossbow [soundtrack]

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Main Title
2. Before Jump/Death of Harrod
3. Mary and Smith Meet/Sting on Castle/Parade Ground
4. Preparation in Luggage Office/Fight in Car
5. Booby Trap
6. Ascent on the Cable Car
7. Death of Radio Engineer and Helicopter Pilot
8. Checking on Smit/Names in Notebook
9. Smith Triumphs Over Nazis
10. Intermission Playout
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Disc: 2
1. Main Title
2. Flying Bomb
3. Funeral/Spitfire/Photograph
4. Peenemunde
5. Reitsch's Flight
6. Parachute Training
7. Up the Rhine/Air Raid
8. Nora/Frieda
9. Erilk/Promises
10. Confession/Execution
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Where Eagles Dare/Operation Crossbow [Soundtrack]
Where Eagles Dare/Operation Crossbow
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • "The blizzard goes on but still they must fly"
  • Where Eagles Dare / Operation Crossbow
 Where Eagles Dare/Operation Crossbow

Manufacturer: Film Score Monthly
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006SSR9W
Release Date: 2005-01-04

Tracks:

  1. Main Title
  2. Before Jump/Death of Harrod
  3. Mary and Smith Meet/Sting on Castle/Parade Ground
  4. Preparation in Luggage Office/Fight in Car
  5. Booby Trap
  6. Ascent on the Cable Car
  7. Death of Radio Engineer and Helicopter Pilot
  8. Checking on Smit/Names in Notebook
  9. Smith Triumphs Over Nazis
  10. Intermission Playout
  11. Entr'acte
  12. Encounter in the Castle
  13. Journey Through the Castle, Pt.1
  14. Journey Through the Castle, Pt.2
  15. Descent and Fight on the Cable Car
  16. Escape from the Cable Car
  17. Chase, Pt. 1 & 2
  18. Chase to the Airfield
  19. Real Traitor
  20. End Playout

Tracks:

  1. Main Title
  2. Flying Bomb
  3. Funeral/Spitfire/Photograph
  4. Peenemunde
  5. Reitsch's Flight
  6. Parachute Training
  7. Up the Rhine/Air Raid
  8. Nora/Frieda
  9. Erilk/Promises
  10. Confession/Execution
  11. Farewell/Nora's Death
  12. Secret Base
  13. Research/Rocket Launch
  14. V-2
  15. Launching Section
  16. Power House/One Minute
  17. Countdown/Switch R-9
  18. End Title
  19. Waltz [Source Music]
  20. Polka [Source Music]
  21. Accordion Band [Source Music]
  22. More Accordion [Source Music]
  23. March [Source Music]
  24. Tango [Source Music]
  25. Beguine [Source Music]
  26. Slow Waltz [Source Music]
  27. Fox Trot [Source Music]
  28. Polka [Source Music]
  29. Ascent on the Cable Car [Original Version]
  30. Descent and Fight on the Cable Car [Original Version]

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars "The blizzard goes on but still they must fly".......2007-05-14

I'm sure you remember the opening sequence. A lone German transport aircraft flies past snow-capped mountains. The credits appear, in a blood-red Gothic font. We hear martial drums that slowly gather in volume, and then with a loud blare the orchestra starts playing a grandiose melody that sounds as cold and forbidding as the scenery. Where Eagles Dare is a suspenseful, exciting film, and the music really lifts it up.

This is a two-disc release of Ron Goodwin's soundtrack, put out by Film Score Monthly, and available both here and on their website. It is a limited edition, but it is not too expensive, and it is still in print. It sounds great on headphones. The second disc has Goodwin's music for Operation Crossbow, I film I have not seen. I have only skimmed through the second disc. There is some source music from Where Eagles Dare at the end of the disc, and two alternative takes, which have different percussion arrangements to the original tracks. The album has several pages of annotations and a little biography of Ron Goodwin. I like to smell the booklet.

The music for Where Eagles Dare can be divided into two halves. The first half of the disc has the most variety, and is the easiest to listen to in one sitting. The second half of the disc suffers from having too many minor variations of the Main Theme. It is a wonderful Main Theme, though. It consists of a dramatic brass fanfare followed by a loud Morse code freak-out towards the end. Both of these elements are used throughout the score, although with a "suspense theme" that appears most purely in the "Intermission Playout". "Before Jump / Death of Harrod", "Death of Radio Engineer", and "Smith Triumphs over Nazis" are quiet and cold and mysterious, with churning strings and rumbling kettle drums. A lot of the music reminds me of John Williams' score for Raiders of the Lost Ark; perhaps Steven Spielberg asked Williams to channel the still-living spirit of Ron Goodwin.

Whereas the first half of Where Eagles Dare has lots of suspense, the second half of the film consists of gunfights and chases and explosions, and the music reflects this. Unfortunately the second half of the disc is a bit numbing, because it is basically a rehash of the music from the first half of the disc. The two elements of the Main Theme are repeated several times, with only minor orchestral variations. "The Chase", "Journey Through the Castle" and "Escape from the Cable Car" are all cut from the some cloth, and they don't add anything to the music you have already heard. The only real deviations are "Chase to the Airfield" and the slower "Descent and Fight on the Cable Car". "Chase to the Airfield" is a variation of the Main Theme, but it is a creative variation rather than a slightly shorter repeat. You could easily condense the album down to half an hour of core musical material.

Still, this is nitpicking - you don't have to listen to the album all the way through (it's one and a quarter hours long). With the right sequencing it is a cold, atmospheric piece of music that barely sounds almost forty years old.

3 out of 5 stars Where Eagles Dare / Operation Crossbow.......2005-10-01

Ron Goodwin is one of my very favourite composers and the release of two of his recordings is definitely cause for celebration. These are original recordings thus the sound quality betrays its age. Nevertheless, it is highly recommended if only for what I believe is the very first release of the Operation Crossbow soundtrack. You can almost feel yourself strapped in the tiny cockpit of a V-1 manned flying bomb, or tremble at the terrible sight of the first V-2 ballistic missile liftoff. If anything, Operation Crossbow should be the subject of a new recording (Where Eagles Dare already has).

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