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Conan the Barbarian [Soundtrack]
~ Original Soundtrack (Artist)
5.0 out of 5 stars  (6 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (1 Oct 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Unknown Label
  • ASIN: B0000261NH
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 246,633 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Anvil Of Crom
2. Riddle Of Steel Riders Of Doom
3. Gift Of Fury
4. Wheel Of Pain
5. Atlantean Sword
6. Theology Civilization Wifeing
7. Search
8. Orgy
9. Funeral Pyre
10. Battle Of The Mounds
11. Orphans Of Doom
12. Awakening
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Based on the pulp tales of Robert E. Howard, John Milius's Conan The Barbarian (1982) is a sword-and-sorcery epic starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a warrior who seeks vengeance on a cult leader (James Earl Jones) who massacred his village. Still his finest effort to date, Basil Poledouris's sweeping, thematic score functions as a continuous music drama, covering Milius's visceral film from beginning to end. Written for 24 French horns, strings, and percussion, the opening "Anvil Of Crom" features a noble theme for Conan and a melodic bridge emblematic of his quest. To represent the cult leader's twisted misanthropy, Poledouris composed a massive choral piece (inspired by Orff's Carmina Burana) adding Latin verses and Eastern elements to denote the Russian locale. Other highlights include a strong love theme for the physically well-matched pair of Conan and Valeria ("Wifeing"), a graceful, folk-influenced melody evoking medieval codes of honour ("Theology/Civilization"), and "The Orgy", in which Poledouris uses thematic repetition and melodic counterpoint to cast an obsessive, hallucinatory spell over Conan's assault on Thulsa Doom's chamber. A modern film-music classic, stunningly recorded and performed. --Kevin Mulhall

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A lavish score for a lavish film, 2 Jul 2000
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This review is from: Conan the Barbarian (Audio CD)
There can be no better endorsement of this score's quality than the fact it was used for the trailer for Gladiator, as no other music evokes so effectively the world of macho, musclebound warriors, the thrill of swordplay, and the romance of legend. This is real men's stuff, and the music pulls no punches in telling us that. From the opening narrator's intro "Let me tell you the days of high adventure", we know we're in for a thrilling ride. If you like your sword and sorcery exotic, lavish and totally committed, then you can't miss this soundtrack as it's arguably one of the finest around. However, it's not all battlecries and fanfares; there are some lovely melancholy pieces to offset the more agressive stuff. As scores go, this is simply brillant when it comes to creating another world and telling a story through music. Buy it - you won't be disapointed.