Name: The Thorn Birds
Brand: Universal Music Distribution
SKU: 164912
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The Thorn Birds

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Album: The Thorn Birds
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Main Title
2)	Go!
3)	Drodheda
4)	Young Meggie
5)	Ralph, Meggie and Mary
6)	Stuie Grows Up
7)	Paddy and Fiona
8)	Passion Play
9)	Story of the Thorn Birds, The
10)	Meggie Grows Up
11)	Baby Hal Dies
12)	Rams and the Enes, The
13)	Parting
14)	Thorn Birds Theme, The
15)	Fire on Drogheda
16)	Search For Paddy
17)	Father Ralph Returns and Funeral Procession
18)	Meggies' Heartbreak
19)	Shearing You're Hearing
20)	Luke and Meggie
21)	Marry Me, Meggin
22)	Arrival at the Vatican
23)	Announement, The
1)	Meggie Leaves Droghede
2)	Arrival at Queensland
3)	Beginning of the End
4)	Welcome to Himmelbock
5)	New Kid in Town
6)	Matlock Island
7)	Beach Walk
8)	Forbidden Love
9)	Ralph and Meggie
10)	Paradise Lost
11)	Vacation's End
12)	Meggie Leaves the Himmelbocks
13)	Meggie Goes Home
14)	Photographs
15)	Together
16)	Good-Bye, Dane
17)	Justine Visits Drogheda
18)	Greek Tragedy, The
19)	Bye Bye Dane
20)	Loss of a Son
21)	Meggie Reveals the Truth
22)	Be Happy
23)	Ralph Dies
24)	End Title
25)	Anywhere the Heart Goes - (Bonus Track)

Album: The Thorn Birds
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Main Title
2)	Go!
3)	Drodheda
4)	Young Meggie
5)	Ralph, Meggie and Mary
6)	Stuie Grows Up
7)	Paddy and Fiona
8)	Passion Play
9)	Story of the Thorn Birds, The
10)	Meggie Grows Up
11)	Baby Hal Dies
12)	Rams and the Enes, The
13)	Parting
14)	Thorn Birds Theme, The
15)	Fire on Drogheda
16)	Search For Paddy
17)	Father Ralph Returns and Funeral Procession
18)	Meggies' Heartbreak
19)	Shearing You're Hearing
20)	Luke and Meggie
21)	Marry Me, Meggin
22)	Arrival at the Vatican
23)	Announement, The
1)	Meggie Leaves Droghede
2)	Arrival at Queensland
3)	Beginning of the End
4)	Welcome to Himmelbock
5)	New Kid in Town
6)	Matlock Island
7)	Beach Walk
8)	Forbidden Love
9)	Ralph and Meggie
10)	Paradise Lost
11)	Vacation's End
12)	Meggie Leaves the Himmelbocks
13)	Meggie Goes Home
14)	Photographs
15)	Together
16)	Good-Bye, Dane
17)	Justine Visits Drogheda
18)	Greek Tragedy, The
19)	Bye Bye Dane
20)	Loss of a Son
21)	Meggie Reveals the Truth
22)	Be Happy
23)	Ralph Dies
24)	End Title
25)	Anywhere the Heart Goes - (Bonus Track)

Performer Notes

Original score composed by Henry Mancini.
Composer: Henry Mancini.
For reasons unknown, it took over two decades for Henry Mancini's score for the smash 1983 television miniseries The Thorn Birds to earn an official soundtrack release, but VarŠse Sarabande's lavish two-disc release proves worth the wait. Nor has time dimmed The Thorn Birds' power -- this deeply romantic, intimate score remains one of Mancini's most stirring, rivaling the composer's most legendary big-screen efforts. Mancini eschews epic drama in favor of smaller-scale nuance, evoking the doomed romance of novelist Colleen McCullough's tale in finely honed strokes. The music is elegant yet understated, rich in variety but amounting to something far greater than the sum of its disparate elements. ~ Jason Ankeny