Rollerball [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [Soundtrack]

André Previn (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: André Previn
• Audio CD (May 7, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000065V8J
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,510 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bach: Toccata In D Minor

2. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8: First Movement

3. Previn: Glass Sculpture

4. Previn: Executive Party

5. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5: Third Movement

6. Albinoni: Adagio

7. Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Waltz

8. Previn: Executive Party Dance

9. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5: Fourth Movement

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Director Norman Jewison's original 1975 Rollerball was an odd mix; half action thriller (about a future blood sport that crossbred the most violent aspects of roller derby and hockey), half futurist cautionary tale (about the dangers of all-encroaching corporate power and the decadent elite who wield it). In retrospect, it was all too prescient on both counts. It also marked one of the last major Hollywood forays of conductor-composer Andre Prévin, who conducted the film's pastiche of Bach (the ominous if clichéd Toccata and Fugue in D Minor served as the game's theme), Albinoni (the Adagio is the film's main theme), Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich. The soundtrack was produced in the wake of Kubrick's epochal uses of classical music in scoring his near-future epics 2001 and A Clockwork Orange, and the inspiration and intent here is obvious. Previn added three brief cues of his own (the evocative, modernist "Glass Sculpture" and the kitschy funk-exotica of "Executive Party" and "Executive Party Dance"). With the London Symphony under his baton, the veteran Previn produces an effective version of the Adagio and wrings appropriate drama from the Russian works as well. -–Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Preston's Tocata IS the Tocata!, June 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Rollerball [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

I've loved Rollerball since I was 10 years old. It's one of my favorite movies of all time and a 70's Sci-Fi classic - truly underrated! I have the DVD and I watch it regularly and it grips me everytime. The Jewison commentary is awesome!

I managed to get a vinyl copy of the album a couple years ago. It was badly scratched, but I did not care.

Why I like the album is one simple reason - Preston's rendition of Tocatta & Fugue in D Minor. In my opinion, it IS the Tocata. No other version by any other artist compares. It was worth the whole album just for that.

It also teaches me that there is good in every situation. Although the re-make of the movie was not received well, without the re-make, I don't know if this CD would ever have been re-released.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Something wich is Lost for Ever...., May 18, 2002

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This review is from: Rollerball [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

I was trying many years to find it!! The Rollerball soundtrack is the best I've ever heard or better the best music I ever heard.
Andre Previn found the way to express by music the feeling of something very precious which is no longer Lost for Ever
and only our memories and the music speaks about it.....

1.0 out of 5 stars Shame on Amazon, Shame on the seller!, July 1, 2011

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This review is from: Rollerball [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

If you're hoping for the original Rollerball soundtrack, don't bother ordering this from Amazon. The product description is correct, the images are correct, even the packing slip shows the right information--but the product sold is totally different--frankly, they lied about which version I was getting. The release I received was the 2002 remake, which is nothing like the original.

I paid a substantial premium for what I thought was the original item, and instead was sent something totally different.

STAY AWAY from this product.