The Dark Crystal: 25th Anniversary

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For all who do not know, only a few years ago, a 2-CD edition of the Dark Crystal soundtrack was released by Numenorean Music - one CD contains the original soundtrack (the same as the 25th Anniversary CD), but the other CD contains the whole entire movie score (28 tracks!). I own this edition myself, but like it says on the package, it is a limited edition release. Unfortunately, the Numenorean Music website where I purchased the 2-CD set from no longer exists, but I know for a fact that it did not sell out quickly like the other reviewer has stated because copies were still available on the main website for over a good 2 years or so. The 2-CD set can still be found on other web store sites I'm sure and I have found copies available on eBay, so overall if anybody is after a lot more music from the Dark Crystal movie, definitely go after the 2-CD soundtrack and entire score set instead because it also is a remastered version and sounds superb! It still is good to see a major...Read more

I do know that those who like the film are most likely to buy this CD, but I would like to reccomend this for any fans of classical music, especially fans of Stravinsky and Prokofiev.

Tailor-made for this otherworldly film, this soundtrack is elegantly composed weirdness. While definitely strange and eerie, the sountrack is still very tatefully done, without resorting to the in-your-face, bombastic styles so typical of other soundtracks. Basically, picture putting Stravinsky and the composer for the soundtrack of Gone With the Wind into a jam session and giving them a couple synthesizers for good measure.

Seriously, I don't dislike a single song on this disk, which is rare for a soundtrack. I also put this on for my mother, who dislikes Stravinsky and his ilk, and she only disliked one track, despite that even she had to admit the similarities to Stravinsky's work. This is an excellent disk, and is one of my absolute favorites now.

Can't believe someone finally *gets it* with regards to the artistry of the entire body of artistic work that makes "The Dark Crystal" such an ever-growing timeless classic and finally releases the soundtrack by Trevor Jones. No thanks to the Disney corporation under the Eisner regime which bought up Jim Hensen's body of work and then let this gem languish in obscurity for years.

Till this release I'd been listening to an audio cassette made from the original LP record of the soundtrack ( only played once for that purpose and thus in *pristine* condition BTW ). Now the entire soundtrack is joyfully playing on my computer whilst I work through iTunes.

Let me say straight out that I grew up on clasical symphonic music and the only other music that caught my imagination as newer symphonic music was by way of film soundtracks. I would draw pictures while listenting to my parents' stereo system and, to this day , I *always* listen to *instrumental music* while...Read more