Author: Alex North
Title: Alex North's 2001 (The Legendary Original Score · World Premiere Recording)
Category: Classical, Stage & Screen
Style: Score, Contemporary
Year: 1993
Notes: In December 1967, Alex North was hired by director Stanley Kubrick to score his movie '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Among North's previous credits was Kubrick's own 1960 screen epic 'Spartacus'.
The MGM had been very specific in their vision of the film from a musical standpoint and it was under their 'suggestion' that Kubrick hired him. However, the director was already very pleased with some of the 'temporary' music tracks which had been used with the first completed scenes of the movie.
North couldn't accept the idea of composing part of the score interpolated with other composers, but decided to give it a try anyway. He modeled some of his music opon the 'temporary' tracks Kubrick had been using in post-production.
After having composed and recorded over forty minutes of music, North received word from Kubrick that no more score was necessary and that he was going to use breathing effects for the remainder of the film.
When North attended the New York premiere of '2001', he realized none of his music was retained by Kubrick in the final product. Instead of that, all the 'temporary' tracks were now part of the actual score.
Alex North had come away from the recording sessions with a cassette of what had been recorded. This music was only ever played for this friend, the famous composer Jerry Goldsmith. It was not long before even that cassette was somehow lost.
The score was finally fully recorded in January 1993 by Jerry Goldsmith and the National Philarmonic Orchestra. The long lost cassette copy of the original 1968 recording was found one week before the performance, and used by Goldsmith to match the tempos and dynamics of North's intent. Rating: 3.7
Format: MP2 ASF MP1 MIDI DXD MP3 XM FLAC MP3
MP3 album RAR size: 1537 mb | FLAC album RAR size: 1280 mb

Tracklist

Main Title	1:37
The Foraging	3:44
Eat Meat And The Kill	3:27
The Bluff	3:01
Night Terrors	2:02
The Dawn Of Man	3:14
Space Station Docking	2:22
Trip To The Moon	3:21
Moon Rocket Bus	5:01
Space Talk	3:30
Interior Orion	1:26
Main Theme	2:31

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
VSD-5400	Alex North, Jerry Goldsmith / The National Philharmonic Orchestra*	Alex North, Jerry Goldsmith / The National Philharmonic Orchestra* - Alex North's 2001 (The Legendary Original Score · World Premiere Recording) ‎(CD, Album)	Varèse Sarabande	VSD-5400	Europe	1993
SLCS-5021	Alex North, Jerry Goldsmith / The National Philharmonic Orchestra*	Alex North, Jerry Goldsmith / The National Philharmonic Orchestra* - Alex North's 2001 (The Legendary Original Score · World Premiere Recording) ‎(CD, Album)	Varèse Sarabande	SLCS-5021	Japan	1993
VSD-5400	Alex North, Jerry Goldsmith / The National Philharmonic Orchestra*	Alex North, Jerry Goldsmith / The National Philharmonic Orchestra* - Alex North's 2001 (The Legendary Original Score · World Premiere Recording) ‎(CD, Album)	Varèse Sarabande	VSD-5400	US	1993
VSD-5400	Alex North, Jerry Goldsmith / The National Philharmonic Orchestra*	Alex North, Jerry Goldsmith / The National Philharmonic Orchestra* - Alex North's 2001 (The Legendary Original Score · World Premiere Recording) ‎(CD, Album)	Varèse Sarabande	VSD-5400	US	1993
VSC-5400	Alex North, Jerry Goldsmith / The National Philharmonic Orchestra*	Alex North, Jerry Goldsmith / The National Philharmonic Orchestra* - Alex North's 2001 (The Legendary Original Score · World Premiere Recording) ‎(Cass, Album, Dol)	Varèse Sarabande	VSC-5400	US	1993
Special Collection Volume 38	Alex North	Music For 2001: A Space Odyssey (The Original Score) ‎(CD, Album, Ltd)	Intrada	Special Collection Volume 38	US	2007

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