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Also Sprach Zarathustra and 2001: A Space Odyssey
Posted by Tom Chambers on July 16, 2024, 6:13 pm
Ralph Moore's article mentions "the stunning opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, lifted from Karajan’s first studio recording..." I have heard this before. But--the original movie soundtrack recording of the music from 2001 was released shortly after the movie itself (it was the first album I ever bought). I can't verify this now (I didn't have the album for long) but I am 95% sure that the album credited the Zarathustra fanfare to the BPO/Karl Bohm. The Blue Danube waltz (split between sides on the LP) was credited to BPO/Karajan. This stuck in my mind because, at the time (I was 14), I had heard of Karajan but had never heard of Bohm and wondered why Karajan didn't do both.
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