Red Sonja

Quartet Records, in collaboration with Studio Canal, presents an 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 also 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. But the picture eventually became just a loose appendage to the franchise, although it kept the same director as CONAN THE DESTROYER and Schwarzenegger as the main star. 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 labeled "Symphonic Suite for Chorus and Orchestra Part I & II," although the music was organized like a regular albumjust 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 otherfor 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-color booklet including in-depth liner notes by Gergely Hubai discussing the film and score. Two-sided cover art features the original poster and the new one created for the 4K restoration in 2022, both designed by the great artist Renato Casaro

1: Prologue
2: Main Title
3: The Talisman
4: Temple Raid
5: Touch It
6: Sonja and the Sword Master
7: Varna's Death
8: The Gate of Brytag
9: Sonja Vs. Brytag
10: Fighting the Soldiers
11: The Talisman II
12: The Chamber of Lights
13: Sonja Teaches Tarn
14: Treasure in the Cavern
15: Sonja Teaches Tarn
16: A Fair Fight
17: Entering the Castle
18: Sonja Defeats the Queen
19: End Credits
20: Sorcery
21: Magic Call/Main Title/The Talisman
22: Gedren Attack
23: The Talisman II/A Way Out
24: Varna Getting Away
25: Magic Call II
26: Varna's Death
27: Sonja Arrives
28: Duel I
29: Broken Promise
30: Sonja Saves the Prince
31: The Talisman Arrives
32: The Prince Asks/Sonja Is Watched
33: Duel II
34: Sonja and Kalidor
35: Sonja and Kalidor Enter the Castle
36: Battle
37: Silence
38: Duel Continues
39: Medieval Dawn (End Titles)
40: Belly Dancer

Composer: Ennio Morricone

Number of Discs: 1

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