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Excalibur [Original Soundtrack]
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Album Details: Excalibur [Original Soundtrack]

Release Date:01/01/1981
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Track List: Excalibur [Original Soundtrack]

  1. Theme from Excalibur
  2. Igrayne's Dance
  3. Merlin's Spell
  4. Siege of Camylarde
  5. Dance at the Court of King Arthur
  6. Lady of the Lake
  7. Lancelot and Guinevere
  8. Wedding
  9. Camelot
  1. Knights of the Round Table
  2. Challenge to Honour
  3. Quest for the Holy Grail
  4. Mordred's Lair
  5. Percival
  6. Land and the King
  7. Death of Arthur
  8. Alternate Theme
  9. Alternate End Titles

User Reviews: Excalibur [Original Soundtrack]

  • Overall:

    Great music, poor release

    By Paul M  Apr 19, 2006 | 1 out of 1 found this Excalibur [Original Soundtrack] review helpful

    Pros: Only place to get Jones' score

    Cons: Unfortunately it is a bootleg!

    Excalibur was Trevor Jones' first major motion picture assignment (he was 32 at the time). But the composer kind of got the short shrift as director John Boorman used classical music for most of the film's key sequences. Jones' Excalbur ...score finally saw a release on this 1994 CD (which also includes the classical selections). While it is nice to have Jones' original music for the film, this is actually an illegal "pirate" CD, made without the permission of the studio, publishers or composer. Production quality is crude; Wagner's "Siegfried's Death" is cut-up and re-edited to reflect how it was use in the film. Clearly the producers of this pirate CD are film geeks, not people who love (and respect) music. The Wagner and Orff pieces heard on this CD are NOT the same performances used in the film. And Jones' "Wedding" cue is simply taken strait off the film itself, crudely edited to exclude the dialog (tho not the sound effects). Hopefully one day a legitimate CD of Trevor Jones Excalibur music will be released. But this aint it. Read more Less

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    20th Anniversary Digitally Remasterd OST

    By Dan  Jul 5, 2009

    Pros: Official 2001 release- Professionally produced from glass master

    Cons: Hard to find except on ebay or Amazon

    This is digitally remastered music released in 2001 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the films release.The same epic, heroic style of music will thrill you once again as you hear Arthur and his Knights riding into battle. The score for Excalibu...r was composed by Trevor Jones and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The soundtrack was originally released on vinyl and is now very rare. The digitally remastered 20th Anniversary edition brings out the clarity and power of the original film. Excalibur soundtrack Track listing : 1. Theme from Excalibur 2:50 composed by Richard Wagner 2. Igrayne's Dance 2:07 3. Merlin's Spell 3:14 4. The Siege of Camylarde 2:37 composed by Carl Orff OFortuna 5.A Dance at the Court of King Arthur 1:17 6. The Lady of the Lake 1:32 7. Lancelot and Guenevere 10:34 composed by Richard Wagner 8. The Wedding 1:05 9. Camelot 3:27 10. Knights of the Round Table 0:41 11. A Challenge to Honour 3:04 12. Quest for the Holy Grail 3:57 13. Mordred's Lair 1:49 14. Perceval 11:50 composed by Richard Wagner 15. The Land and The King 4:10 16. The Death of Arthur 6:38 composed by Richard Wagner 17. Alternate Theme 1:28 18. Alternate End Titles 3:31 Total Disc time 65:53 . Read more Less

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Pro Reviews: Excalibur [Original Soundtrack]

  • All Music Guide

    For his first major soundtrack project, Trevor Jones had to share screen time with Richard Wagner and Carl Orff. But even in that august company, his music holds its own, a mix of postRomantic and new age material interspersed with and decidedly antiquated folkbased sounds, pieces for tin whistle juxtaposed with works for eerie female chorus and strange musical oscillations; other works intermingle folk and classical material of extraordinary density and power. The CD also contains alternate versions of sections of the score, for the completist listener. The total score even minus the Wagner and Orff material is as spellbinding as the movie, and it's to the discredit of the business side of the production that the soundtrack (which has excellent sound) wasn't made more widely available at the time of the movie's release. As it is, the Excalibur soundtrack is a choice limitededition collector's item.

    - Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

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Trevor Jones

Soundtrack composer Trevor Jones is best known for his work on science fiction fantasies like The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and Dark City, but he has also worked on films ranging from romantic comedy (Notting Hill) to political thriller (13 Days) to actionadventure (Cliffhanger). Born in Capetown, South Africa, Jones left the continent to study at the Royal Academy of Mu... Read more
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