The music in the movie

The information was supplied to me by Ivan Dalmonte, another person who is interested in the film

The soundtrack is made by music from J.S. Bach (No.1 in C auf "Das wohl temperierte Klavier") that is easy to find, and by pieces extracted by two very old (30 years) records by Gheorghe Zamfir (a Rumanian virtuoso of Pan flute), which are still on sale on www.netbeat.com for something about 16 euros each. Actually I managed to purchase them on the Internet and I can now confirm that the 2 CDs both contain a different versions of the same magical piece. These are the references for the pieces and the CDs:

Zamfir/Cellier: Doina lui petru CD"Improvisations pour flute de pan et orgue" (records Cellier)

Zamfir/Cellier: Doina: Sus pe culmea dealului CD "Flute de pan et orgue" (record Cellier)

What the person is writing about here are pieces of music used in the film.

The above was taken from an ebay auction and could be an actual soundtrack. I did not win the item and so I don't know if it is actually music from the film or one or two pieces from the film or based on the film. I have also been told by one other person that he has a copy of an LP soundtrack of the movie but did not have access to it at the time. So, it is possible that there is an "official" soundtrack after all. If anyone has any more information on this please let me know.

This information is provided by Andi:

Swan's Departure is actually by Beethoven -Second Movement, Adagio un poco mosso from the Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat major, Op. 73, (Emperor Concerto c.1810) Murray Perahia recorded a masterful version in his Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos (1988) (Thanks, Andi!)

This informatin is provided by Mike Fuery:

Just on the music from the film, I can't find any reference to JS Bach's "Well Tempered Klavier" but only this piece of music by Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 ("Emperor") in E Flat Major: II. Adagio un poco mosso - IS available from iTunes Music Store. The version I have is by Andre Previn and is very nice indeed. I haven't found any publicly available files of Bruce Smeaton's arpeggiated composition, used during the searches of the Rock. (THanks, Mike!)


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