Trevor Jones LAST PLACE ON EARTH TV Soundtrack LP Roald Amundsen Captain Scott

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Rare British release of the original TV soundtrack to 'The Last Place on Earth' (1985) by Trevor Jones.
The series starred Martin Shaw, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Stephen Moore and Ståle Bjørnhaug, featuring Max von Sydow, Alexander Knox, Richard Wilson, Sylvester McCoy, Brian Dennehy, and Pat Roach. It also featured performances early in their careers by Bill Nighy and Hugh Grant.

Trevor Jones ‎– The Last Place On Earth (The Original Soundtrack Recording from Central TV's Production) (1985)

Condition (refer also to notes at bottom):
Vinyl – VG-EX. Looks very clean on visual inspection. Played just pre-listing and sound clarity is superb throughout. Some clicking at the very start of side A and some minor static in places but overall an excellent listening experience.
Outer sleeve (cover) – VG-EX. Colours are unfaded. Glossy front and reverse. Corners are scuffed and nicked but the edges are clean with only the odd very minimal scuff. The spine is intact and clean though slightly pinched in two places. Aperture is clean and unworn apart from two areas of creasing. Minimal surface marks and very light creasing. A superb copy of this hard-to-find Trevor Jones soundtrack.
Inner sleeve – EX. Original. Black paper with slightly curved corners. Minor creasing and folding. Intact.


Label: Island Visual Arts ‎– ISTA 8
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Genre: Stage & Screen, Score, Neoclassical
Style: Soundtrack, Instrumental, Theme

Tracklist
A1. Main Theme.
A2. Snow Mistress.
A3. Kathleen And Scott.
A4. Norwegian Theme.
A5. Scott And Wilson Collaborate.
A6. Chamber Music At Mabel Beardsley's Soiree.
A7. The Departure Of Terra Nova.
A8. The Fram Heads South.
A9. Forty-Mile Dash.
A10. The British Set Forth Across The Barrier.

B1. Axel-Heiberg.
B2. The Furthest South.
B3. Ski Race.
B4. The Great Nail.
B5. Death On The Glacier.
B6. In Memory Of "Soldier".
B7. Message To The Public.
B8. The South Pole.
B9. Closing Titles.

Composed By, Conductor – Trevor Jones

Music composed and conducted by Trevor Jones. Orchestrations by John Coleman, Peter Knight and David Lindup. Score produced by Trevor Jones.


Review:

The Last Place on Earth was a critically acclaimed British TV mini-series, directed by Ferdinand Fairfax, which aired over seven episodes in the spring of 1985.

It charted the epic race between two teams of intrepid adventurers and their efforts to become the first men to reach the South Pole – one from the United Kingdom led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, and one from Norway led by Scott’s great rival, Roald Amundsen.

Their trials and tribulations caught the attention of the world in 1912, but ended in great tragedy, as the entire British party famously died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold on the return journey, having been beaten to the Pole by Amundsen by just a matter of days. The series starred Martin Shaw as Scott, Sverre Anker Ousdal as Amundsen, Max von Sydow as Amundsen’s mentor, the famed explorer Fridtjof Nansen, and Brian Dennehy as the American Arctic exploration pioneer Frederick Cook, as well as several now-popular British actors in early supporting roles, including Hugh Grant and Bill Nighy.

The music for The Last Place on Earth was written by the then 36-year-old composer Trevor Jones, and was one of his earliest major assignments following his move from South Africa to the UK in the 1970s. He had already written acclaimed scores for films such as Excalibur in 1980 and The Dark Crystal in 1982, but was still working mainly on British television projects when he was hired to write The Last Place on Earth.

In many ways, The Last Place on Earth is a prototypical Trevor Jones score, chock full of early versions of the things that would make him such a popular and in-demand composer throughout the late 1980s and 1990s: the stirring brass themes, the flagrant disregard for subtlety in his emotional content, and the incorporation of electronic elements, especially the ‘EWI’ electronic wind instrument that would feature so prominently in many of his most famous works.

Fans of Trevor Jones’s work, especially his ‘epic adventure’ scores like The Last of the Mohicans and Cliffhanger, will find The Last Place on Earth to be a fascinating early entry in his filmography, especially as the seeds of those scores can be heard so clearly in this one.

The only issue may be actually finding a copy, as the score has never been legitimately released on CD.

Island Records released this LP of the score in 1985 to capitalize on the popularity of the series, but the score has never been legitimately released on CD. As the vinyl release is long out-of-print, the only other place this music appears to be available is on Jones’s live Madrid Concert compilation album, which was recorded at the 1st Soncinemad Film Music Festival in 2006.


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FAIR: The record is still just playable but has not been cared for properly and displays considerable surface noise; it may even jump. The cover and contents will be torn, stained and / or defaced.

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