Name: Red Sonja Original Soundtrack
Brand: Ennio Morricone

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QR499

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Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-16

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8436560844990

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Ennio Morricone

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Soundtracks

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Quartet

Expanded, remastered edition of Ennio Morricone’s classic sword-and-sorcery score for the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle Red Sonja (1985), directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Brigitte Nielsen as Sonja. Initially conceived as a kind of continuation of the Conan saga started three years earlier by the same producer, Dino de Laurentiis, the original idea was to tie in Sonja’s character with the rest of the Conan universe and create a trilogy featuring the hulky Cimmerian. Ennio Morricone, who took over after Basil Poledouris scored the first films, provides a powerful and exciting score dominated by an epic march as the main theme, far away from the Poledouris style. The score also features a beautiful love theme, fierce action cues, adventure music and dark and mystical passages. 

Red Sonja was originally released by Varèse Sarabande on an LP (and later on CD) featuring two extremely long tracks labelled “Symphonic Suite for Chorus and Orchestra – Part I &amp;amp; II,” although the music was organized like a regular album—just without separate track titles. In 2010, Perseverance Records released a new edition of the CD, cutting up the suites into tracks and organizing them into mostly chronological order, but not adding new material. This new edition contains all the music from the original album program in stereo (also reorganized in film order) and then the complete score in mono (from the only elements available). Both versions of the score have music that’s not heard in the other—for instance, the main battle theme from the album (“Fighting the Soldiers”) is never heard in such a developed version in the film, while other bits and pieces (like the music for Varna’s escape) were not included on the album. By combining the two programs, this is as complete as RED SONJA can get. Produced, restored and mastered by Chris Malone, the package comes with a 16-page full- colour booklet including in-depth liner notes by Gergely Hubai discussing the film and score.

Red Sonja Original Soundtrack

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