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5.0 out of 5 stars
A must for soundtrack/instrumental music collectors, July 16, 2000
First off, the discography shown above is not correct. The album comes with two cd's with a total of 38 tracks, including soecial affects. (If any potential customer is interested, e-mail me and I will send a copy of it to you.)There are several cds that I always carry sround with me, and these two are among them. On disc One,the more subdued of the two, Raine's rendition of the Apollo 13 Main Title is simply moving. The End Title to Lifeforce, which is very difficult to find, is stirring. On this same disc is included two pieces form "Close Encounters..", the conversation between the humans and the mother ship, and the beautiful End Title. On disc Two the tone is more upbeat. Ten of the 19 tracks are from Star Trek films and televisions series. The Deep Space Nine concert version theme, the Star Trek motion picture theme, and the "Generatins" suite are very well done. Track 13, from Star Trek-The Next Gerneration, Tasha's Farwell is melancholy and beautiful. The cd high point is the track 15 (Star Trek V "Life is A Dream"), 16 (Voyager Main Theme), and 17 (The End Title to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) trio. Track 17 is exceptional. Not only is the music on these two disc beutifully compose, well timed and toned, but theire arrangements on the two dics is also wonderful. I own many soundtrack compilations and this is one of the few that I actually feel that some serious thought and time went behind is creation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Warmly recommended (for sci-fi/fantasy fans), September 27, 2005
I have always had a sucker for (good, or maybe even intelligent) science fiction/fantasy. Call it a weakness if you want. But it was actually really kick started off, for as far as I can remember, with Star Trek. But especially Star Trek II, III and IV - essentially a trilogy - because of their very romantic but human core, set on the broadest canvasses. But then there is the music for adding that essential extra dimension of emotion and atmosphere.
This kind of music (for the movies) should be seen as an art that stands on its own and has its own merits and qualities. As such, the music on these CD's are a beautifully played cross section of some of the most evoking orchestral music for science fiction/fantasy film ever created. And I very much like the nicely blended, wide and deep orchestral soundpicture with enough reverberation to evoke a sense of wide open spaces.
I am quite thrilled by tracks like the Theme from 'The Right Stuff' (actually science f a c t, not fiction, this film), the original End Title for 'Alien' (not used in the theatrical version of the movie) the End Title from 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' and especially the powerfully performed End Titles Suite from 'Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'. I especially like the rendition here of the music for 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan' and the Theme (actually the End Titles) from 'Cocoon': highly evocative! For the rest I was very pleased with the inclusion here of some of the music from the series Star Trek: The Next Generation, namely where one of the characters, Tasha Yar, in one of the episodes ('Skin of Evil') is saying goodbye to her crewmmates: sweetly sentimental and simple.
All in all a very good album with some of the most memorable moments from sci-fi/fantasy film captured in music.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of Silva's best, August 14, 2005
Back in 1997 when this was released, it was voted the second best CD release of the year (only behind the Expanded Star Wars Trilogy Double CD releases) All three volumes of Space and Beyond are some of my favorite CD releases. Period. While the City of Prague Philharmonic's performancesare not always as good as the original soundtrack recordings, they are more than adequate and in some cases superior to the OST.
Obviously this CD has your regular sci fi compilation staples (Star Wars, Star Trek, 2001), but it also has some great lesser-known scores such as Goldsmith's Capricorn One (my favorite performance of the main title) and John Barry's The Black Hole which has never been released on CD. Jerry Goldsmith's represented by the end title to Alien as well. Plus There's some Horner (Apollo 13,Cocoon) and Conti (The Right Stuff). Disc 2 open's with a couple of tracks from Alex North's rejected score for 2001, the main title to Star Wars and then the remainder of the CD is music from the first seven star trek films and the tv series. Star Trek II, IV, VI and Generations all have superior performances to the OST and this CD has the world premiere recording of the Concert version of the Deep Space Nine theme. There's also a cue from The Next Generation by Ron Jones from when Tasha Yar said goodbye.
Pick this up and see why the members of FilmTracks voted this #2 CD of 1997.
Also check out Alien Invasion: Space and Beyond II and Space 3: beyond The Final Frontier
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by The City of Prague Philharmonic 
