Space Waltz [Import]

Product Description
Ground-breaking rock album from down under, paving the way for the likes of Split Enz. Classic early '70s concept album in Ziggy Stardust fashion. RPM. 2005.

Space Waltz,Alistair Riddell,Rpm Records UK,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: great music, great reissue fantastic whoa. Great Music for Halloween, very creepy Bleakest of Futures...

2001: A Space Odyssey - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1996 Reissue) Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Khachaturian | Khachaturian, Aram | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Ligeti, György | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Strauss | Strauss, Richard | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music $7.99 and Under | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Soundtracks | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Classical | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music $7.99 and Under | Prices | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: 2001 - A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1971 Film) A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score The Ligeti Project II: Lontano / Atmosphères / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony / Concert Românesc - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Jonathan Nott Psycho: The Complete Original Motion Picture Score ASIN: B0000033WB Release Date: 1996-10-29

Tracks:

1. Overture: Atmospheres - The Sudwesfunk Orchestra, Ernest Bour
2. Main Title: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra) - The Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert Von Karajan
3. Requiem For Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra - The Bavarian Radio Orchetra, Francis Travis
4. The Blue Danube (Excerpt) - The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan
5. Lux Aeterna - The Stuttgart Schola Cantorum, Clytus Gottwold
6. Gayane Ballet Suite (Adagio) - The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennadi Rezhdestvensky
7. Jupiter And Beyond - The Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Francis Travis, The Sudwesfunk Orchestra, Ernest Bour, Internationale.
8. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey) - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
9. The Blue Danube (Reprise) - The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan
10. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey) - Sudwesfunk Orchestra
11. Lux Aeterna - The Stuttgart Schola Cantorum, Clytus Gottwold
12. Adventures (Unaltered) - Internationale Musikinstitut, Gyorgy Ligeti
13. HAL 9000 - Dialog Montage

Amazon.com

This commemorative reissue of music from 2001: A Space Odyssey combines the Also sprach Zarathustra theme, various Johann and Richard Strauss segments, and a ballet suite by Aram Khachaturian--all of which prove how much Stanley Kubrick's film attempts to avoid the soundtrack clichés of most science-fiction movies. Instead of the expected sci-fi effects, there is a more ironic application of music that would be otherwise incongruous to the celestial settings. Here, "The Blue Danube" complements scenes involving weightlessness and descending spacecraft, while Gyorgy Ligeti's creepy "monolith" music connotes Armageddon more than interplanetary exploration. The tracks play as they had appeared on the original soundtrack release back in the '60s, but there is also previously unreleased supplemental material and a dialogue montage entitled "HAL 9000." --Joseph Lanza

Customer Reviews:

great music, great reissue.......2007-04-16

This is a great collection of music and I love the great mastering job that was done with this. The inclusion of the tracks from the original MGM soundtrack release are a great bonus. The liner notes include interpretations of the film and the music that are insightful.

I noticed that the music in the movie is mixed in surround sound, it would be great if they could release this on DVD-Audio or SACD surround. I'd buy it again!

fantastic.......2007-03-11

I have the old lp release of this music, what an incredible array of classical music, topped off by my personal favorite piece of music in the world, the blue danube waltz. Let yourself be carried away in deep space by this incredible score.

whoa........2006-09-04

"Atmospheres" was enough to make me buy this album. just try to imagine what eternity might sound like. okay, now you know exactly what Atmospheres is. wow. who else could having captured the feelings that are in this score? this is above talented. this is above genius. this is above avand garde. this is too good to be labeled as anything at all.

Great Music for Halloween, very creepy.......2006-03-17

I bought this CD to use for a haunted house program, the music will creep you out.

Bleakest of Futures..........2005-10-08

The atonal, unsettling atmosphere of much of the music of Ligeti is fitting to the bleak vision of a human future reigned by nothing but cold technology and of humans drained of emotions except for the deepest animalist fear originating from our inner reptilian brainparts which have not changed for over millions of years. The incongruity of Johann Strauss' lovely 'An der schönen blauen Donau' with the cold technicality of spacefaring as depicted here could not be more complete, but what a perfect find on Stanley Kubrick's part! It makes the uneasiness and confusion even greater. And then, to top it of, the complete and flabbergasting irony of using Richard Strauss' Fanfare for the 'rise of Man' in his 'Also Sprach Zarathustra': what a great destiny for 'Man' indeed, this bleakest of bleak visions of the future!
As a soundtrack for '2001: A Space Odyssey' this music together on one album is just great.
And besides, this soundtrack has indeed, like so many others I guess, made me aware of the genius of Ligeti, which otherwise might have gone unnoticed for me.

Average customer rating:

It's Always Fair Weather (1955 Movie Soundtrack) (Rhino Handmade) Betty Comden Manufacturer: Rhino Handmade ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music General | Previn, André | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Pirate (1948 Movie Soundtrack) (Rhino Handmade) Summer Stock / In the Good Old Summertime (Movie Soundtracks) (Rhino Handmade) Lovely to Look At (1952 Movie Soundtrack) (Rhino Handmade) Silk Stockings (1957 Film Soundtrack) Three Little Words (1950 Movie Soundtrack) (Rhino Handmade) ASIN: B0001LYFYA Release Date: 2004-01-01

Tracks:

1. Main Title - MGM Studio Orchestra
2. March March - Jud Conlon, Dan Dailey, Gene Kelly
3. Medley: Letter/Drinking Montage/The Binge - MGM Studio Orchestra
4. Time for Parting - Jud Conlon, Dan Dailey, Gene Kelly
5. Ten Year Montage [#] - MGM Studio Orchestra
6. Blue Danube (I Shouldn't Have Come) - Dan Dailey, Gene Kelly, Michael Kidd
7. After Blue Danube [#] - MGM Studio Orchestra
8. Gene's Folly [#] - MGM Studio Orchestra
9. Music Better Than Words
10. Stillman's Gym - Clark Burroughs, , , MGM Studio Chorus, Ernie Newton, Thurl Ravenscroft
11. Baby You Knock Me Out - Clark Burroughs, , , MGM Studio Chorus, Ernie Newton, , Carole Richards
12. Situation-Wise [#] - Dan Dailey, , Lee Gotch, , Thurl Ravenscroft, Bob Stevens, Bob Wacker
13. Mike's Dream Place [#] - MGM Studio Orchestra
14. Time for Parting/Once Upon a Time - Jud Conlon, Dan Dailey, Gene Kelly
15. I Thought They'd Never Leave [#][Outtake]
16. Love Is Nothing But a Racket [#][Outtake] - Gene Kelly, Carole Richards
17. Twenty-Five Cent Analysis [#] - MGM Studio Orchestra
18. Situation-Wise - Dan Dailey
19. I Like Myself - Gene Kelly
20. Madeline's Commercial (Klenzrite) [#]
21. Thanks a Lot, But No Thanks
22. Time for Parting-TV Girls [#] - Ruth Clark, , Loulie Jean Norman, Betty Wand, Gloria Wood
23. Time for Parting (Finale)
24. End Cast [#][Outtake] - MGM Studio Orchestra
25. Binge [Alternate Version][#] - MGM Studio Orchestra
26. Jack and the Space Giants [#][Demo Version] - Michael Kidd, Andrrevin
27. Once Upon a Time [#] - Betty Comden, Adolph Green
28. Love Is Nothing But a Racket [#] - Betty Comden, Adolph Green
29. Music Is Better Than Words [Alternate Version][#] - Betty Comden
30. Blue Danube [#] - Betty Comden, Adolph Green
31. I Thought They'd Never Leave [#] - Betty Comden, Adolph Green
32. Thanks a Lot, But No Thanks [#] - Betty Comden

Average customer rating: A glam rock obscurity revived

Space Waltz Alistair Riddell Manufacturer: Rpm Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Australia & New Zealand | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Glam | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Return to Form Black Magick Party ASIN: B000BAVZ2Q Release Date: 2005-11-21

Tracks:

1. Fraulein Love
2. Seabird
3. Out on the Street
4. Angel
5. Open Up
6. Scars of Love
7. And Up to Now
8. Love the Way He Smiles
9. Beautiful Boy

Album Description

Ground-breaking rock album from down under, paving the way for the likes of Split Enz. Classic early '70s concept album in Ziggy Stardust fashion. RPM. 2005.

Album Details

Moving on from a Band He Formed in '72 (That Included Drummer Paul Crowther and Guitarist Wally Wilkinson) Riddell Began Writing Songs of Sci Fi Imagery and Named his New Project "Space Waltz". Enhancing the Imagery by Designing and Tailoring Dramatic Costumes from Acres of Curtain Material, Like Bowie, it was Not for Him the De-rigeur Denim Uniform of the Day. His Debut Single Out on the Street with an Irresistible Bad Attitude "She'll Vamp around Town, Trying So Hard to Be Cool…" Visceral Yet Voyeuristic, Hit No.1 Down Under.

Customer Reviews:

A glam rock obscurity revived.......2007-07-12

Originally released in 1974, New Zealander Alistair Riddell's Space Waltz is big, sweeping glam rock balladry that owes a sizeable debt to early 70s Bowie, but isn't any less enjoyable for that. The arrangements are full and dramatic, the production is 70s analog warm, Riddell's voice is charismatic without being over the top and the melodies stick to the ribs. Beautifully crafted and passionately performed, Space Waltz is a must for anybody interested in that old fashioned 70s glam rock sound.

Average customer rating: Very interesting

The Composer-Performer 40th Anniversary Manufacturer: Composers Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Curtis-Smith, Curtis | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fine, Irving | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Thomson | Thomson, Virgil | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tower | Tower, Joan | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Walker | Walker, George | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000005TWL Release Date: 1994-10-25

Tracks:

1. Aeolian Harp; The Banshee
2. The Letter
3. Waltz-Gavotte: Waltz - Gavotte
4. Fantasy In Space
5. Image
6. Praises And Prayers
7. Fanfare From Organ Book: Fanfare From Organbook
8. Spatials
9. Divertimento
10. Five Sonorous Inventions
11. The Nantucket Songs
12. Petroushskates
13. Samba D Hiccup
14. Strange Quiet
15. Requiem For Bosnia
16. Nine Songs Ritual Opera
17. Apocalypse

Customer Reviews:

Very interesting.......2001-02-23

- especially the Walzt-Gavottte is playfull and summes of live and fun - a bit Childrens Corner here. But some of the pieces are very etniclike and can be foreign to listen to. Though - it sounds interesting.

Average customer rating: Dissapointment

The Best of Nexus Manufacturer: Nexus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cage, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000009JMU Release Date: 1993-08-26

Customer Reviews:

Dissapointment.......2006-09-13

I know that there is percussion music that is worth listening to, I've played some. Unfortunately, such music is not found on this CD. The songs are either ragtime (which is fine in appropriate amounts) or wierdo garbage that must be more interesting to play than it is to listen to, otherwise I can't see how it would make it onto a "best of" CD. I don't recall hearing a piece that had both drums and keyboards at the same time. I admit, however, that I haven't built up the courage to listen to the disk again to verify this. In long... the song selection is really bad and most of the sounds coming from the speakers are best kept in the background of B grade horror films. The talent of the players is wasted on the material.

Average customer rating: yes you are a snob Marketing boys and their marketing toys

Space Classics Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Grofé, Ferde | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Holst | Holst, Gustav | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Strauss | Strauss, Richard | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Debussy | Debussy, Claude | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Star Wars | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ASIN: B000003G0I Release Date: 1995-10-10

Tracks:

1. Also sprach Zarathustra: Excerpt - Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner
2. Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise - Morton Gould & His Orch
3. The Planets: Mars, the Bringer of War - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
4. Star Wars: Main Title - National PO/Charles Gerhardt
5. Close Encounter of the Third Kind: Final Scene - National PO/Charles Gerhardt
6. The Planets: Venus, the Bringer of Peace - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
7. Snowflakes Are Dancing - Isao Tomita
8. The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy
9. Vn Con: Movt III - New Philharmonia Orch/Erich Leinsdorf
10. By the Beautiful Blue Danube: Excerpt - Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
11. The Planets: Neptune, the Mystic - Women's Vox of Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

Customer Reviews:

yes you are a snob.......2000-01-20

sure this is a marketing exercise, but its fun. Tomita's electronic Debussy may not be to your taste, but its a beautiful fusion of Japanese and Western sensibilities overlain and underpinned by the combination of the electronic and classical genres, which can only be appreciated by those with a truly musical soul

Marketing boys and their marketing toys.......1999-07-08

I hate to sound like a snob, but it's hard to imagine anyone over the age of 5 being at all intrigued by this silly little CD. The music is great, well mostly great, of course, and a couple of the performances (Reiner's "Zarathustra," Gould's "Grand Canyon") are among the best out there. Others (Tomita's awful synthesized Debussy) scrape the bottom of the barrel. The big question is WHO is likely to enjoy something like this? Only children and adults with very, very limited attention spans who don't like really classical music, I'll wager.

Average customer rating:

Space Waltz ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000BYAD5C Release Date: 2005-12-27

Average customer rating:

Sayonara Concert Manufacturer: Blue Moon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Massenet | Massenet, Jules | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Weber | Weber, Carl Maria von | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music ASIN: B00009QRBE Release Date: 2003-10-07

Tracks:

1. Space Race
2. My Heart Will Go On [From Titanic]
3. Invitation to the Dance
4. Etude in a New Form
5. Piano Concerto No. 21 Andante
6. Caravan
7. Thais Meditation
8. Czardas
9. Dolls and Dreams
10. Serenade a Coline
11. Begin the Beguine
12. Toccata
13. Penelope
14. Love Is Blue/El Bimbo
15. Hungarian Dance No. 5

Album Details

The Master Concert Meistro Takes a Final Bow with his Orchestra Playing Many of the Popular Favorites that have Brought Him Fame Over the Years, Including his Worldwide Smash Pop Hit "Love is Blue".

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