Lawrence of Arabia [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

Rating

Album: Lawrence of Arabia [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Overture
2)	Main Title
3)	Miracle
4)	Nefud Mirage
5)	Rescue of Gasim/Bringing Gasim Into Camp
6)	Arrival at Auda's Camp
7)	Voice of the Guns, The
8)	Whose Name Do You Ride
9)	Suns Anvil
10)	Lawrence/Body Guard
11)	That is the Desert
12)	End Title
13)	Suite [from Doctor Zhivago]
14)	Suite [from Ryan's Daughter]
15)	Suite [from A Passage to India

Album: Lawrence of Arabia [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Overture
2)	Main Title
3)	Miracle
4)	Nefud Mirage
5)	Rescue of Gasim/Bringing Gasim Into Camp
6)	Arrival at Auda's Camp
7)	Voice of the Guns, The
8)	Whose Name Do You Ride
9)	Suns Anvil
10)	Lawrence/Body Guard
11)	That is the Desert
12)	End Title
13)	Suite [from Doctor Zhivago]
14)	Suite [from Ryan's Daughter]
15)	Suite [from A Passage to India

Performer Notes

Original score composed by Maurice Jarre.
Includes liner notes by Geoff Leonard.
Composer Maurice Jarre's majestic score for David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia is as epic and grand as the 1962 Oscar-winning movie itself. Bombastic and hypnotic, balancing sweeping strings and brass with violent percussion, Jarre (who also conducts) holds back nothing, relying on the film's desert vistas to guide his soaring, Middle Eastern-inspired cues into the listener's head like a cannonball. While the Tony Bremner-conducted re-recording that appeared a few years later is of excellent quality, there is no matching the power and cinematic scope of the original. ~ James Christopher Monger

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.36) - Ranked #41 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...You'll hear Jarre's music leap swiftly from amber-sunrise majesty to drum-thumping violence..."

Mojo (Publisher) (6/02, p.64) - Included in Mojo's "100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks" - "...Big themes, a mammoth orchestra and the latest electronic instruments combined to conjure up Arabia's desert sandscapes."