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INTRADA Announces:



THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
Music Composed and Conducted by BASIL POLEDOURIS
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 257

Composer Basil Poledouris was a natural choice to provide the musical accompaniment for Jack Ryan’s memorable first film adventure, The Hunt for Red October. Not only had much of the film been tracked with his music, but the film’s story combined elements that recurred in many of the composer’s projects, including U.S.–Soviet relations (Red Dawn, Amerika), men and machines (Iron Eagle, RoboCop), and the ocean (Big Wednesday, The Blue Lagoon). For the opening titles, Poledouris invented his own "Russian folk" song, one from which the thematic material for the rest of the score is drawn.” Although much of Poledouris’ score consists of short, subdued cues, which mix orchestra and electronics, a few stand-out sequences gave Poledouris the opportunity to bring his full orchestral and choral forces to bear - depicting underwater navigation with a musical sense of wonder, adapting the choral material with a more menacing quality and a lengthy, pivotal sequence in which a a nuclear accident is faked.

Basil Poledouris and his team put considerable creative effort into the original mixes. Many cues were mixed not just once but two or three times, getting the balances between orchestra, chorus and electronics exactly right, adding electronic “sweeteners,” and in some cases subtly altering the musical timings to fit revised film footage. The score truly exists in these master mixes, which have been newly transferred and mastered from ¼″ two-track tapes in the Paramount vaults for this release of the expanded score. For this expanded edition, Intrada presents these mixes and nearly doubles the length of the previous MCA release.

The Red October of the title is a state-of-the-art Typhoon-class submarine captained by Marko Ramius (Sean Connery), a veteran commander of the Soviet navy. Shortly after leaving port, Ramius murders the sub’s “political officer,” making it look like an accident, and burns his official orders before obtaining both of the keys that can unlock the ship’s nuclear missile capabilities. The U.S. submarine Dallas becomes aware of the Red October’s presence in the North Atlantic and pursues the sub discreetly, but while U.S. officials worry that the Russians’ new silent propulsion system will allow the Red October to launch a nuclear first strike against America, CIA analyst and naval historian Jack Ryan (Alex Baldwin) has a different theory...

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 257
Retail Price: $19.99
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Wow...finally. Thanks to all who made this one possible! The samples are fantastic, cannot wait to hear the whole shebang!!

This epitomizes awesome. Thanks guys

Ordered along with Cocoon - thanks Intrada!!

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Order this and Cocoon!

Intrada, you guys have really outdone yourselves this time.
Poledouris would have been proud.
I urge everyone to dive dive dive deep into there pockets for this one.
This & Cocoon instant purchases
Cant wait to play this loud & read the notes.
Thank you once again.

AWESOME!!!

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** Sorry for my bad English, I'm from Italy **

“Seaman Jones here is into music in a big way, and he views this whole boat as his own personal, private stereo set. Well, one day he's got this piece of Pavarotti…”

“It was Paganini.”

“Whatever.”

“It was Paganini.”

“Look, this is my story, okay?”

“Then tell it right, COB. Pavarotti is a tenor, Paganini was a composer.”

“So anyway, he's got this music out in the water, and he's listening to it on his headsets, and he's just happy as a clam. And then all hell breaks loose. See, there's this whole slew of boats out in the water…”

“Including one WAY out at Pearl!”

“Including one way the hell out at Pearl. All of a sudden, they start hearing Pavarotti coming up their asses!”

Did we somehow get steered off course? Dang those submarines... you just can't trust what waters they'll end up in.
--Doug

It has arrived!

It is wonderful!!!

I am particularly pleased to have the “Tupolov” cue in particular at long last!

Tell me about it swash.

That's a very effective piece in the score for me.

Track 11 also has some great music, one of those short but awesome cues you often here in scores.

I've found that the only tracks I skip are the purely electronic ones, such as "Kaboom!!!"

This is quite a moody powerhouse of a score, and one of the great releases of this year.

It's getting a lot of play time. Sometimes I wish my commute was actually slightly longer, so I don't have to interrupt the score midway through.

I've just received and listened to "The Hunt For Red October"... greatly pleased !

But one thing I just don't understand about "End title" cue : why the quality is so bad ? This is a major track totally downmixed, with drops like a poor mp3 file. I am very disappointed especially when the album is sold as a "CD presented in stereo from pristine condition session masters vaulted at Paramount." For this particular track it is not !

I hope it won't happen again