Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK]

Star Trek (Related Recordings), Cliff Eidelman

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 10, 1991)
• Original Release Date: December 10, 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000002OJG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #64,393 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fitting Finale for Star Trek The Original Series, July 12, 2000

By	D. B. Levenstam (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The music possesses a dark grandeur. I enjoyed the film, and still think the soundtrack may be its best element.

The CD's front cover folds out into six small pages, containing four still shots from the film, one picture of the original cast members posing in their Star Trek VI uniforms on the bridge of the Enterprise-A, and an approximately 200-word testimonial from Nicholas Meyer, the film's co-writer and director, to his wonderful working relationship with composer Cliff Eidelman. The first still shot shows an unhappy General Chang sitting in the captain's chair aboard his Bird-of-Prey. In the second shot we see Spock and Valeris at the peace conference, with Chekov and delegates in the background. In the third shot Kirk and McCoy stand trial on Chronos. The final shot shows a slightly-blurry Enterprise-A moving away from space dock at impulse.

Eidelman has produced a brooding and moody soundtrack. Almost entirely original, it fittingly contains periodic strains reminiscent of music from both Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Sad and nostalgic at times, it nonetheless finishes with triumphant music conveying what may be the ultimate Star Trek message: The human adventure is only beginning.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This CD Stands On Its Own, July 24, 1999

By A Customer

You don't have to be a fan of Star Trek to enjoy this music. Cliff Eidelman has composed and orchestrated, in my opinion, some of the most thrilling movie music ever to be produced to date. And I have collected a lot of it over the years. You don't believe me? Just check out the Overture, trak #3: Clear All Moorings, trak #7: Rura Penthe, trak 11: The Battle For Peace, and the final trak: Star Trek VI Suite. The music oscillates between brooding darkness and triumph of the spirit. Eidelman creatively blends and balances traditional western orchestral instrumentation with a non-lyrical chorus and a variety of what sound like African and South American percussions and pipe instruments. With each listening, I look for something that I have not previously heard. I don't even think of the movie at all(though it is an entertaining film). This work rivals the best efforts of other great movie score composers like Bernard Hermann, Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, and John Williams.

Whether you like Star Trek or not, don't pass up this opportunity to experience some tremendously creative musical composition. Whatever genre he chooses, I hope that Mr. Eidelman is still out there contributing his musical talents to whoever will listen.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent score from a relative youngster, March 14, 2004

By	Steve Dallas - See all my reviews

This score is not the equal of Goldsmith's masterwork for the original ST movie (few will ever be) or Horner's great work for "ST III" (better than his soundtrack for "ST II"), but it was an amazing effort for a 24-year-old and far, far better then Rosenman's dreadful (and inexplicably Oscar-nominated!) "ST IV." The terrific opening march sets the tone for what is easily the darkest of all ST scores. (And in response to the earlier poster who felt he ripped off Holst's "The Planets," director Nick Meyer asked him to make an opening that resembled "Mars, the Bringer of War," so don't knock him for doing so.) This soundtrack won't blow you away, but it is marvelous work for one so young and it still puzzles me that it didn't advance him to the big leagues like Horner's breakthrough effort for "ST II" did for him. Buy it!