Planet Of The Apes: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Also Featuring Music From Escape From The Planet Of The Apes [Soundtrack]

Jerry Goldsmith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 26, 1997)
• Original Release Date: August 26, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000001525
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,662 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title

2. Crash Landing [#]

3. Searchers [#]

4. The Search Continues

5. The Clothes Snatchers

6. The Hunt

7. A New Mate

8. The Revelation

9. No Escape

10. Trial [#]

11. New Identity

12. A Bid for Freedom

13. The Forbidden Zone

14. Intruders [#]

15. The Cave

16. Revelation, Pt. 2 [#]

17. Suite [#]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Go "Ape" Over This One!, December 18, 1999

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Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Planet Of The Apes: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Also Featuring Music From Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (Audio CD)

One of Hollywood's most prolific and innovative composers, Jerry Goldsmith truly surpassed anything that he had previously done with the score to the 1968 film. A groundbreakingly exciting composition, the music exudes mystery, danger, and otherworldly "terror" with its piercing strings, thunderous percussion, and simulated "ape" sounds. The music is a listener's treat to the magnificence of Goldsmith at his best. It would be several years later before he bested "Planet" with the Academy Award-winning "Omen" score and "Star Trek: the Motion Picture," both which should be included in any Goldsmith fan's audio library! The "extra" is a suite from "Escape to the Planet of the Apes," a relatively bland composition due to the setting of the film in contemporary America. But, the original's score is well worth the purchase. Besides, one doesn't have to bother with the latter score. That's the advantage of programmable CD players!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Le Sacre" of Film Scores, August 10, 2001

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Pablo Iglesias Alvarez "Glossu" (Mexico City, D.F. Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Planet Of The Apes: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Also Featuring Music From Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (Audio CD)

An absolutely brilliant and completely original score by Jerry Goldsmith. The music must have been a shock for Hollywood in the 60's and probably still is!. It is an alien , atonal score that uses creatively many percussive sounds. In some moments the music recalls Stravinsky's "Sacre du Printemps" in its primitive drive. A must for music lovers and of course for Planet of the Apes fans!.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Turning Point in Motion Picture Soundtracks, February 24, 2005

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Jeffrey Arnold (Lemoore, ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Planet Of The Apes: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Also Featuring Music From Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (Audio CD)

I'm sure other reviews will discuss instrumentation, so I'll pass on that one. I will just tell you that I this score was so impressive that I loved it EVEN when the only version I'd ever known of was the trebly Project 3 release which only featured about 25 minutes of music. Acquiring this full-length release is absolute confirmation.
Who could've ever thought that experimental "cacophony" and melody could be cross-bred to create something so appealing and instantly memorable? You'll find after listening to it once that, upon the next listening, you remember the themes.
A Goldsmith classic, and truly THE turning point in film score history!