THE SHINING Original Soundtrack Vinyl (1980,US) OFFICIAL Warner Brothers RARE LP

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Soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick’s iconic horror masterpiece "The Shining".
Original 1980 US press on Warner Bros HS 3449.

VERY RARE and collectable as the soundtrack album on LP was withdrawn due to problems with licensing of the music. It is only available on vinyl and has become a collector's item. The LP soundtrack omits some pieces heard in the film, and also includes complete versions of pieces of which only fragments are heard in the film.

The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time | Pitchfork (2019)

#48 The Shining
1980

"More than a decade after 2001: A Space Odyssey, director Stanley Kubrick reused a controversial trick. Once again, he scrapped almost all of the score that had been written for his new film, The Shining—this time by synth innovator Wendy Carlos, who had been essential to A Clockwork Orange, and producer/vocalist Rachel Elkind—and used only snatches of their work. In the final cut, their sepulchral electronics are only heard in the early scene where the Torrance family navigates the steep roads to their fateful hotel. Still, it is the defining piece of the film, its familiar lumbering rhythm and simple melody haunted by an unease you can never quite identify. In it, Carlos establishes the essence of the creeping dread that dominates the Overlook Hotel. (The rest of Carlos’ unused score is absolutely worth seeking out, in part to reimagine the ways it might have changed The Shining and in part because it’s terrifying.)
For the rest of his film, Kubrick opted for the oversized melodrama of modern Eastern European classical music, with the strains of Krzysztof Penderecki’s shrieking strings and György Ligeti’s orchestral lurches hinting at premonitions and fears left unspoken. Ligeti’s creeping “Lontano” poisons moments that should be playful or even innocent; Béla Bartók’s “Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta” gives little Danny’s tricycle romps the terror of a sweaty nightmare. But The Shining, to an extent, is about haunted spaces, so Kubrick uses period pieces—most famously, Ray Noble and his Orchestra’s drifting ballroom ballad “Midnight, the Stars, and You”—to pull ghosts into an unraveling present. These pieces become essential props, as symbolic as Jack’s typewriter and as alarming as rivers of blood rushing out of elevators, shaping a latticework of horror that feels as eternal as whatever lurks in Room 237." –Grayson Haver Currin

Companies, etc.

Pressed By – Wakefield Manufacturing – 37761

Credits

Design [Uncredited] – Saul Bass

Notes

A4: Recorded by Deutsche Grammophon.
B1: Recorded by Polskie Nagrania.
B4: With kind of permission of the Decca Record Company.

A1 & A2: Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.-BMI
A3, B1 to B3: B. Schott's Söhne-BMI
A4: Boosey & Hawkes Inc.-ASCAP
B4: Mills Music Inc.-ASCAP
? 1980 Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
Warner Bros. Records, Inc., a subsidiary and licensee of Warner Bros. Inc., a Warner Communications Company
Made in U.S.A.
Printed in U.S.A.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 0 7599-23449-1
Matrix / Runout (side 1 etched): HS-3449-A-1 AL 37761
Matrix / Runout (side 2 etched): HS-3449 B-1 AL 37761 Mo#2 #7
Matrix / Runout (side 1 etched (variant 1)): HS-3449-A-2 #1 AL 37761
Matrix / Runout (side 2 etched (variant 1)): HS-3449 B-2 AL 37761 #1
Matrix / Runout (Both sides, stamped): W over M [logo]

TRACK LISTING

SIDE 1

1. main title - Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind (3:27)

2. Rocky mountains - Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind (3:01)

3. lontano - Gyorgy Ligeti (10:11)

4. music for strings, percussion and celesta - Bela Bartok (8:07)

SIDE 2

1. utrenja (excerpt) - Krysztof Penderecki (3:33)

2. the awakening of Jacob - Krysztof Penderecki (7:55)

3. de natura sonoris no.2 - Krysztof Penderecki (8:56)

4. home - Henry Hall & the Gleneagles Hotel Band (3:09)
Excellent copy and a must have for any Horror and Kubrick fans.