Music of Cosmos: Selections from the Score of the Television Series "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan [Soundtrack]

Vangelis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00004WFPW
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,396 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Heaven And Hell, Part 1/Symphony No.11/Alpha - Vangelis/Houston Symphony Orchestra/Leopold Stokowski

2. Depicting The Cranes In Their Nest/Canon A 3 On A Ground In D/The Four Seasons: Spring... - G. Yamaguchi/Academy Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields/Neville Marriner/Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra...

3. Partita No.3 - Arthur Grumiaux

4. Symphony No.19/Legacy/Russian Easter Festival Overture/Inside The Heart Of The Universe - Sevan Philharmonic/Alan Hovhaness/Synergy/L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande/Ernest Ansermet...

5. Fly Night Bird/Beauborg, Part II/The Rite Of Spring - Roy Buchanan/Vangelis/London Symphony Orchestra/Eduardo Mata

6. Entends-Tu Les Chiens Aboyer?/Bulgarian Shepherdess Song (Izlel Je Delyo Hajdutin)... - Vangelis/V. Balkanska/L. Kanevski/S. Zakmanov

Editorial Reviews

Binding is tight and pages unmarked.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

76 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good re-release but a better one is available, June 1, 2001

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Ted "Ted" (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music of Cosmos: Selections from the Score of the Television Series "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan (Audio CD)

This is a mediocre. re release of the Soundtrack of the COSMOS TV series by Carl Sagan.

There is a much better Re-release 2-CD set Collector's Edition available exclusively through Carl Sagan Productions at Carlsagan.com

I hope that they will soon allow other online retailers to sell their version.

It contains much more material than this version.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CD DOES contain the complete vinyl soundtrack, February 25, 2001

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John A. Stewart "js902548" (King of Prussia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music of Cosmos: Selections from the Score of the Television Series "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan (Audio CD)

Contrary to what J Mark Sick says about this CD, it does contain the entire vinyl soundtrack. The 18 original tracks are broken down and lumped by threes into 6 tracks for the CD. Mr. Sick should learn to be a little more observant! If you look at the selection titles you would see they're the same as the album! The one fault I would site is that there should have been MORE music included from the series. A CD can hold much more than a vinyl disk! The music covering the Alexandria Library sequences was fabulous, but, unfortunately, was not included. It took me nearly ten years to track down the source: Alan Hovhaness's Symphony #4. I guess since Mr Hovhaness already had one sampling on the album (Symphony #19) the producers decided that two would be too many. But it should at least be on the CD, along with the many others that were excluded.

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great album but get the double-cd, March 16, 2001

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M. Williams (Traveller) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music of Cosmos: Selections from the Score of the Television Series "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan (Audio CD)

No doubt that this is a great album, and was undeservedly long out of print (due to problems securing musical permissions), but true fans should go for the recently digitally-remastered 2CD version of the Cosmos soundtrack which came out at the same time as the new DVD/VHS set of the series. That includes one previously unavailable Vangelis piece "Comet 16" amongst a total of 28 tracks.