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The Omen: Original Motion Picture Score (Deluxe Edition) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Jerry Goldsmith
Label: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Category: Music
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 74721
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 030206628821
EAN: 0030206628821
ASIN: B00005PJ9D
Release Date: October 9, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Ave Satani | | • | On This Night | | • | New Ambassador | | • | Where Is He? | | • | I Was There | | • | Broken Vows | | • | Safari Park | | • | Doctor, Please | | • | Killer Storm | | • | Fall | | • | Don't Let Him | | • | Day He Died | | • | Dogs Attack | | • | Sad Message | | • | Beheaded | | • | Bed | | • | 666 | | • | Demise of Mrs. Baylock | | • | Altar | | • | The Piper Dreams - Jerry Goldsmith, Goldsmith, Jerry |
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Jerry Goldsmith's chilling soundtrack music for Richard Donner's 1976 Antichrist-themed thriller The Omen was very nearly the score that never was; an unusual, last-minute budget extension was granted solely to secure the composer's services. That decision turned out to be one of the wisest the studio could make. Goldsmith's music would go on to score him his first Oscar and a Grammy award and become the crucial thematic glue that held the entire Omen trilogy together. Standing the traditional requiem form on its head, Goldsmith in essence created Satanic liturgical music. As chorally ominous as Orff's Carmina Burana, yet infused with the composer's own compelling sense of drama and color, The Omen instantly became both a genre classic and one of the musician's greatest achievements. Varese's 25th anniversary edition has largely resequenced the track order to match the film and expanded it by nearly a third with seven previously unreleased cues. These new tracks add dimensions of both pastoral calm and mounting suspense, making the familiar "Ave Satani" theme even darker and more spine tingling by contrast. Edition producer Robert Townson's detailed new notes also carefully place each cue in its cinematic and musical context. --Jerry McCulley
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 THE SOUNDTRACK OF NIGHTMARES May 29, 2007
This CD should come with a DISCLAIMER!
Without exception, this is the most chilling, soul shattering, truly, deeply, profoundly disturbing musical composition ever written. What an ordeal to subject one's nerves to!
"Ave Satani" must have shocked the hell out of the audience when they performed it at the Academy Awards! And, as a previous reviewer very astutely noted, every single note of this score deserved the Academy Award.
And for the benefit of those of you unfamiliar with Latin:
Sanquis bibimus, Corpus edimus
Prode corpus Satani
Ave, Ave Versus Christus
Ave, Ave Satanti
We drink blood, We eat flesh
Bring forth the body of Satan
Hail Antichrist
Hail Satan
The other version runs:
Sanquis Vivimus, Corpus venimus
Prode Cantus Satani
Blood, we are alive, Body we are coming
Sing forth the incantation of Satan
[There are differing schools of thought as to what the actual Latin text is -one concert version actually exchanged "versus Christus" with "Jesu Christus"!]
Musically powerful and very effective, the score is one of the most original and polished ever written for a film -or the concert hall. It's essentially a chamber piece for small orchestra and mixed chorus, though recent recordings have used larger orchestras and even more varied vocal arrangements.
This newly remastered and restored version is a prized addition to any film music collection.
Nothing more needs to be said except . . . February 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
. . . this is the most frightening, superlative music ever written for a film.
The Omen Soundtrack June 30, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Far, far better then the remakes soundtrack. This one still gives me chills up and down my spine! The new one, PU!
The Omen; orchestral score October 24, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are looking for really dark satanic orchestra music, you found it. Lots of choral chanting by deep voices and women vocals too. I loved the score for "Bless the Child" and then I found this. Can not say enough good things about this. The song at the end has vocals and was not used in the movie. It sucks, but it is thankfully the last track so in no way should that stop you from buying this score
Hauntingly Chilling, and Perfectly Composed August 9, 2004
I am a huge fan of Jerry Goldsmith, but the undeniably most impactive score that I've ever heard under his name is this CD.
The 1976 success of Richard Donner's masterpeice is without a doubt 86% due to Jerry Goldsmith's requiem-stylized suites.
The tracks that stand out in this lister's brain are "Ave Satani," (once you hear in on the movie track, it will be instantly engraved in your mind.) "The Dog's Attack," enormously beacuse, when I hear it, my mood changes--as does with any music I listen to) and, course, who can forget the pressing motif in "the Altar" (I love it, and so will you.)
So, if your looking to listen to a killer score that will blow you out of your seat, slip this sweet little CD in and prepare yutrself for this beautifully remastered 25th Anniversary Edition of Jerry Goldsmith score to one of the most memmorable films of our time--THE OMEN
----Jerry or G I G I
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