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APOCALYPSE NOW 1979 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Marlon Brando (Col. Kurtz), Robert Duvall (Lt. Col. Kilgore), Martin Sheen (Capt. Willard),...

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APOCALYPSE NOW 1979

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Marlon Brando (Col. Kurtz), Robert Duvall (Lt. Col. Kilgore), Martin Sheen (Capt. Willard), Frederic Forrest (Chef), Albert Hall (Chief), Sam Bottoms (Lance), Harrison Ford (Colonel)

Apocalypse Now takes its inspiration from Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, transmuting the story into a black-humoured and surreal vision of the Vietnam War.

Colonel Kurtz, an "outstanding officer", is out of control and not following orders. He has disappeared across the border into Cambodia with an army of tribesmen who regard him as a god, killing and destroying indiscriminately. Captain Willard is sent to track him down and "terminate his command".

Wagner’s music is used brilliantly to accompany an attack on a Vietcong village by those present-day valkyries, a horde of army helicopters.

G.I. JANE 1997

Director: Ridley Scott

Cast: Demi Moore (Lt. Jordan O’Neil), Viggo Mortensen (Master Chief John Urgayle), Anne Bancroft (Senator Lillian DeHaven), Jason Beghe (Royce)

Senator Lillian DeHaven is leading a campaign to allow women into the Navy’s elite combat unit, the SEALS and hand-picks O’Neil as the first female trainee. O’Neil encounters much hostility and is the butt of practical jokes played by both instructors and fellow-trainees. However, this merely hardens her resolve to succeed.

O’Neil is then put in charge of the trainees’ first practice mission on which her orders are disobeyed with the result that her unit is captured and she is almost raped by Urgayle. O’Neil then returns to the base where, after a celebration with her fellow trainees, she goes to a party with some women from the Navy. She is photographed in the arms of another woman and accusations of homosexuality are used to force her to quit the SEALS.....until her boyfriend, Royce, finds out that the person who has engineered this blackmail is none other than Senator DeHaven. Thus, O’Neil is reinstated to the SEALS and, while on a Libyan mission, actually saves Urgayle finally earning recognition from her instructor.

Heard on the soundtrack are two works by Mozart, Eine kleine Nachtmusik and the Adagio and Fugue for string quartet, but also the lovely aria O mio babbino caro from Puccini’s opera Gianni Schicchi, first made popular in A Room with a View.

PLATOON 1986

Director: Oliver Stone

Cast: Tom Berenger (Sgt. Barnes), Willem Dafoe (Sgt. Elias), Charlie Sheen (Chris), Forest Whitaker (Big Harold), Francesco Quinn (Rhah), John C. McGinley (Sgt. O’Neill)

Director Oliver Stone, who also wrote the screenplay, is a Vietnam veteran himself and his story of Chris, a young volunteer trying desperately to cope with infantry life during the Vietnam war, certainly has autobiographical elements.

Platoon won Academy Awards for Best Film and Best Director and made effective use of Samuel Barber’s Adagio, the innocent beauty of which stood out against the horrendous atrocities of war.

PARADISE ROAD 1997

Director: Bruce Beresford

Cast: Glenn Close (Adrienne Pargiter), Frances McDormand (Doctor Verstak), Pauline Collins (Margaret Drummond), Cate Blanchett (Susan Macarthy), Jennifer Ehle (Rosemary Leighton-Jones), Julianna Murgulies (Topsy Merritt)

The story starts on the eve of the Japanese invasion of Singapore when we see the affluent colonials (British, Dutch and American) at a dance. However, it is not long before all women and children are forced into ships one of which is sunk off the Sumatran coast. Some of the woman swim ashore only to meet Captain Tanaka who is actually a member of the Japanese secret police.

The women soon find themselves in a prison camp and during their internment various tensions between the prisoners erupt while the German Dr. Vetrak looks on. The different women in the camp find different ways of coping with their situation — Drummond and Pargiter begin their own choir, while some of the women prostitute themselves in order to ameliorate their lot.

Although the Japanese are losing the war many of the women, including Drummond, die while in the camp. It is only when the camp commander, Hirota, announces that the war is over that the women can celebrate the end of their ordeal.

THE DEER HUNTER 1978

Director: Michael Cimino

Cast: Robert de Niro (Michael), John Cazale (Stan), John Savage (Steven), Christopher Walken (Nick), Meryl Streep (Linda), George Dzundza (John), Chuck Aspegren (Axel), Shirley Stoler (Steven’s Mother)

Clairton, Pennsylvania, 1968. Three friends, Mike, Nick and Steven, are preparing to go to Vietnam where the war has escalated. The day before their departure they go on a deer hunt. In Vietnam they are taken prisoner and forced to play Russian roulette, with their guards betting on the outcome. Finally they manage to escape, but Steven is badly wounded. Mike returns to Clairton but is reluctant to meet his old friends and stays with Linda. He visits Steven, now a legless cripple in a Veteran’s Hospital, who tells him he is getting large sums of money from Saigon. Mike returns there to try and find Nick. Heavily drugged, Nick is now earning his living playing Russian roulette and when Mike asks him to come home with him, he plays and loses. After Nick’s burial his friends gather in John’s bar and sing "God Bless America".

Few pieces are so closely associated with a film as Stanley Myers’ Cavatina with The Deer Hunter. It is heard over the opening credits, again when Mike comes home to Clayton and also over the end credits.

THE THIN RED LINE 1998

Director: Terrence Malick

Cast: Sean Penn (First Sgt. Edward Welsh), Adrien Brody (Cpl. Fife), James Caviezel (Pte. Witt), Ben Chaplin (Pte. Jack Bell), George Clooney (Capt. Charles Bosche), John Cusack (Capt. John Gaff), Woody Harrelson (Sgt. Keck), Nick Nolte (Lt. Col. Gordon Tall), Elias Koteas (Capt. James 'Bugger' Staros)

In 1942 US troops land on the island of Guadalcanal in order to wrest it back from the Japanese invaders. They venture into the jungle and make an attempt on a hill which is heavily defended by the Japanese. Eventually the soldiers destroy the Japanese machine-gun post and the men are rewarded with a week away from the front. They return to the front where a military operation in the jungle goes wrong. Private Witt, an idealist, saves the company, but is killed in the process. The Americans leave the island.

There are a few pieces of classical music in this movie by Charles Ives and Arvo Pärt. However, most poignant of all is the In paradisum from Faure's Requiem which heightens the horror and hopelessness of war.

THE DEVIL’S OWN 1997

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Cast: Harrison Ford (Tom O’Meara), Brad Pitt (Frankie McGuire), Margaret Colin (Sheila O’Meara), Ruben Blades (Edwin ‘Eddie’ Diaz), Treat Williams (Billie Burke), George Hearn (Peter Fitzsimmons), Mitchell Ryan (Chief Jim Kelly)

Northern Ireland in 1992. Frankie McGuire, who twenty years earlier had his father gunned down for his Republican sympathies, is a now a member of the IRA. Under an assumed name he goes to New York to buy Stinger missiles, staying with a police sergeant, Tom O’Meara and his family. Here he hides the money for the missiles. O’Meara finds them and confronts him with them. McGuire confesses his true mission and is arrested by O’Meara but manages to escape. Refusing to assist the FBI and the British Secret Service, O’Meara goes after him on his own. In a gunfight in the fishing boat intended for smuggling the missiles back to Northern Ireland, both are wounded, McGuire fatally.

The money for the missiles is handed over to McGuire at an open-air skating rink in a park, where people are skating to the strains of Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring) by Johann Strauss Jr.

THE PEACEMAKER 1997

Director: Mimi Leder

Cast: George Clooney (Colonel Thomas Devoe), Nicole Kidman (Dr Julia Kelly), Marcel Iures (Dusan Gavrich), Armin Müller-Stahl (Dimitri Vertikoff), Alexander Baluev (Alexander Kodoroff), Rene Medvesek (Vlado Mirich)

In Russia two trains collide, producing a nuclear explosion, and all over the world nations go on the alert. The American response is to put nuclear scientist Dr. Julia Kelly on the case and she does not think it is an accident. She joins forces with military agent Colonel Thomas Devoe and they go to Europe on the trail of the missing warheads. Soon all are found in the possession of military Russian rogue Alexander Kodoroff. All but one, that is. The missing one has been delivered to Dusan Gavrich, a Bosnian politician about to attend a summit conference. His wife and child have been killed in Sarajevo and he wants to draw the world’s attention to the situation in Bosnia by threatening to explode the warhead in central Manhattan. He is chased through the streets and ends up, wounded, in a church.

Apart from his political activities Dusan Gavrich is a classical pianist and in a scene we see him teaching a girl to play the Chopin F minor Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 1 (Track 9) and later on we hear him play another of these, the C Sharp minor Nocturne, Op. 27, No. 1 to himself. In the church he stumbles into at the end of the chase, a boys’ choir is heard singing Mozart’s Ave verum corpus (Track 10).

GALLIPOLI 1981

Director: Peter Weir

Cast: Mark Lee (Archy), Bill Kerr (Jack), Mel Gibson (Frank Dunne), Ronnie Graham (Wallace Hamilton), Harold Hopkins (Les McCann), Charles Yunupingu (Zac), Heath Harris (Stockman)

Together with All Quiet on the Western Front and Paths of Glory this is probably the most poignant antiwar film ever made. It introduces us to two young Australians, Archy and Frank, bitter competitors on the race-track, but the best of friends off it. Full of youthful exuberance and idealistic notions they enlist and take part in the catastrophic World War I invasion of Gallipoli.

The serene beauty of Albinoni’s Adagio makes a brilliant contrast to the madness of war.

Disc 1

Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro

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Performed by: National Philharmonic Orchestra Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Richard Wagner
Conducted by: Klaus Tennstedt Hans Knappertsbusch Andrew Davis Charles Gerhardt Uwe Mund Wilhelm Furtwangler
Recording date: October 1988

Ride Of The Valkries (Apocalypse Now) - 5:27

Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546

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Performed by: Kassel Spohr Chamber Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conducted by: Roberto Paternostro
Recording date: 5-9 April, 1993

Adagio And Fugue (G.I. Jane) - 8:11

Gianni Schicchi

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Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra Opera North Orchestra Prague Philharmonia Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Herbert von Karajan Arthur Fiedler Will Humburg Gaetano Merola Steven Mercurio Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Charles Rosekrans Antonino Votto Constantine Orbelian David Parry Gareth Hancock
Anna-Lisa Bjorling, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Felipe Bou, bass
Jose Garcia-Quijada, baritone
Galina Gorchakova,
Mary Plazas, soprano
Ana Maria Martinez, soprano
Colin Lee, tenor
Janez Lotric, tenor
Alberto Rinaldi, baritone
Tatiana Lisnic, soprano
Mabel Perelstein, contralto
Stefano Secco, tenor
Gerardo Lopez Gamez, tenor
Sara Galli, soprano
Celestino Varela, baritone
Carlos Ruiz, bass
Claudia Marchi, mezzo-soprano
Javier Zorilla, baritone
Antonio Torres Merino, bass
Maria Callas, soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Dennis Helmrich, piano
Eugenia Zukerman, flute
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Elisabeth Schwarkopf, soprano
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Marianne Fiset, soprano
Joan Hammond, soprano

O mio babbino caro (G.I. Jane) - 2:25

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

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Performed by: CBC Vancouver Orchestra Detroit Symphony Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra Scottish National Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Musici de Montreal, I New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
Composed by: Samuel Barber
Conducted by: Marin Alsop Mario Bernardi Geoffrey Simon Adrian Leaper Neeme Jarvi Andrew Schenck
Janos Balint, flute
Yuli Turovsky, cello
Bela Banfalvi, violin
Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet
Lajos Lencses, oboe

Adagio For Strings (Platoon) - 7:53

Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35, "Funeral March"

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Composed by: Sergei Rachmaninov Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Alfred Cortot, piano
Jakob Gimpel, piano
Helene Tysman, piano
Dmitry Paperno, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Sona Shaboyan, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Edna Stern, piano
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
Grigory Sokolov, piano
Recording date: 7-8 May 1953

Funeral March (Paradise Road) - 9:18

The Deer Hunter

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Composed by: Stanley Myers
Norbert Kraft, guitar

Cavatina (The Deer Hunter) - 3:36

Requiem, Op. 48

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Performed by: Indianapolis Festival Orchestra Maastricht Limburg Symphony Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Thomson Hall Orchestra London Musici
Composed by: Gabriel Faure Rachel Laurin
Conducted by: Frederick Burgomaster Elmer Iseler Yan Pascal Tortelier Ed Spanjaard Jeremy Summerly Gilbert Patenaude Laurence Equilbey
Colm Carey, organ
Meirion Carey, organ
Stephane Degout, baritone
Richard Marlow, organ
Luc Hery, violin
Christophe Henry, organ
William Ferguson-Wagtaffe, treble
Stanley Irwin, bass-baritone
Libby Crabtree, soprano
Harry Peeters, baritone
Nicholas Gedge, bass-baritone
Jonathan Scott, harmonium
James Rutherford, bass
Lisa Beckley, soprano
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Angele Dubeau, violin
Christiane Oelze, soprano

In paradisum (The Thin Red Line) - 3:23

Fruhlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), Op. 410

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Performed by: Vienna State Opera Orchestra Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin Staatskapelle Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna Strauss Orchestra
Composed by: Johann Strauss II
Conducted by: Jascha Horenstein Peter Guth Ondrej Lenard Christian Pollack Robert Heger Michael Gielen Joseph Francek
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Marilyn Hill Smith,
Recording date: 11-21 January 1988

Voices Of Spring (The Devil's Own) - 6:12

Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55, No. 1

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Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Arthur Rubinstein, piano
Sandor Falvai, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Peter Nagy, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Recording date: 28 May and 20 October 1936

Nocturne No. 15 (The Peacemaker) - 4:50

Ave verum corpus, K. 618

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Performed by: St. Clement Concert Orchestra Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Camerata Cassovia West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Cologne Gurzenich Orchestra Vienna Volksoper Orchestra Wiener Volksoper Orchestra Vienna Volksoper Symphony Orchestra Munich Residence Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Anonymous Noel Edison
Conducted by: Peter Marschik Marcus Creed Klaus Knubben Hans Rudolf Zobeley John Pryce-Jones Johannes Wildner Randall Swanson Helmut Froschauer Joseph Flummerfelt Alphons von Aarburg
Priti Coles, soprano
John Dickie, tenor
Paul Halley, organ
Darius Battiwalla, organ
Andrea Martin, baritone
Anna di Mauro, mezzo-soprano
Walton Gronroos, baritone
Gabriele Schreckenbach, alto
Michael Thompson, horn
Celina Lindsley, soprano
Werner Hollweg, tenor
Daniel Winiger, organ

Ave verum corpus in D major, K. 618 - 2:54

Adagio in G minor (attrib. to Albinoni)

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Performed by: Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum Cologne Chamber Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Remo Giazotto
Conducted by: Karol Teutsch Richard Edlinger Helmut Muller-Bruhl Raymond Dessaints Iona Brown Herbert Kegel
Jean-Francois Gauthier, organ
Johanne Arel, violin
Pavel Bogacz, violin

Adagio For Organ And Strings (Gallipoli) - 11:31

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