Track Listing

1. Overture
2. Main Title
3. Kontakion/Funeral Song
4. Lara Is Charming
5. Internationale
6. Lara and Komarovsky Dancing up a Storm
7. Komarovsky With Lara in the Hotel
8. Interior Student Cafe [Outtake]
9. Sventitsky's Waltz/After the Shooting
10. Military Parade
11. They Began to Go Home
12. After Deserters Killed the Colonel
13. At the Hospital
14. Lara Says Goodbye to Yuri
15. Tonya Greets Yuri [Outtake]
16. Stove's Out [Outtake]
17. Yevgraf Snaps His Fingers [Outtake]
18. Evening Bells-Moscow Station
19. Flags Flying over the Train [Outtake]
20. Yuri Gazing Through a Tiny Open Hatch [Outtake]
21. Door Is Banged Opened [Outtake]
22. Intermission
23. Yuri Follows the Sound of the Waterfall
24. Tonya and Yuri Arrive at Varykino
25. They Didn't Lock the Cottage
26. Varykino Cottage, Winter Snow
27. Yuri and the Daffodils
28. On a Yuriatin Street
29. In Lara's Bedroom
30. Yuri Rides to Yuriatin
31. Yuri Is Taken Prisoner by the Red Partisans
32. For as Long as We Need You
33. Yuri Is Escaping
34. Yuri Approaches Lara's Apartment
35. Yuri Looks into the Mirror
36. Lara and Yuri Arriving at Varykino
37. Yuri Is Trying to Write
38. Yuri Frightens the Wolves Away (Pt. 1)
39. Lara Reads Her Poem
40. Yuri Frightens the Wolves Away (Pt. 2)
41. Yuri Works On [Outtake]
42. Then It's a Gift (End Title)
43. Lara's Theme [Jazz Version]
44. Lara's Theme [Rock 'N' Roll Version]
45. Lara's Theme [Swing Version]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3397 in Music
• Released on: 1995-04-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Customer Reviews

"A Czar Is Born"
Maurice Jarre created a sound-track classic-for-all-time . . . and for all times with the soundtrack for the 1965 film "Dr. Zhivago". This was an epic movie of an epic love and demanded an epic musical score. This soundtrack transcended that demand. While it was the perfect accompnyment to every scene of the film . . .it stands on its own as well, even now almost forty years later.

The recurring "theme" - "Lara's Theme" (popularly known as 'Somewhere My Love'- as lyrics were added for pop radio) is today, instantly recognizable to everyone. (I can't hear that theme without "falling in love all over again" with Julie Cristie, who played the role of Lara - or who WAS Lara!)

Another memorable track is the "Kontakion" from the Kievan Russian Orthodox Requiem Liturgy. This hymn is emotionally moving in every Eastern Orthodox funeral or memorial service for the dead . . . it was just as emotional in the film setting as the young boy Yuri (Zhivago) attends his mother's funeral and interment. Just listening to the track today, brings memories of that scene . . . and to any Orthodox familiar with his/her own spiritual tradition, evokes prayerful memories of every funeral of any loved ones who have departed this life. This track alone makes this disc worthwhile owning.

This 1995 "Thirtieth Anniversary Edition" is expanded to include much music hich was not included on the oiginal 1995 release . . . all of it worthy. Also, three variations of "Lara's Theme" (not on the film score) are also added "bonus tracks" - one jazz, one rock, and one swing -- all interesting and enjoyable, though out of the film context . . .but they demonstrate just how adaptable and viable "Laras Theme" actually is and can be. (I must admit that the "rock" version sounds more like "Dixieland to my hearing.)

This is a more than worthwhile album to own and to listen to over and over again. Even if you never saw the movie,"Dr. Zhivago", you will enjoy this album . . . and maybe even be inspired to read Boris Pasternak's book . . . and maybe even get a copy of the film to watch . . . again and again . . . and possibly fall in love with Julie Christie (Lara).

(p.s. - Boris Pasterak actually meant this "love story triangle" to represent being torn between the love for "Mother Russia" with the "Czar" and "The Revolution" and all that it entailed and hoped to build for a new Russia and all that Revolution ruined and destroyed . . . Zhivago, Tonya, Lara, Strelnikov, Komarovsky are all "symbols" of the love/longing/strife/war of Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary Russia.)

One of the best soundtracks.
After watching the movie "Doctor Zhivago" (which I recommend, it was a lovely movie), I just had to go out and buy the soundtrack to it. Maurice Jarr's score is breathtaking. The balalaikas are wonderful, it adds a very Russian feel to it all. My favorite piece is the 'Main Title' and the other slower, more romantic tracks, which feature the famous "Lara's Theme." A nice edition for Doctor Zhivago fans or just for anyone who enjoyed the music. It won the Academy Award in 1965. Get the 30th Anniversary CD, since it has some interesting facts and also has some pieces that were cut out of the finished movie.

The best of all possible soundtracks
Maurice Jarre's stunning score to the film DOCTOR ZHIVAGO ranks as one of the finest soundtracks ever composed. Grand, memorable, and powerful, Jarre's acheivement captures the agony of revolutionary Russia and complements brilliantly the epic production of Metro Goldwyn Mayer.

Jarre's score involves a use of several leitmotifs, Lara's Theme being the most famous, which bind each piece into the larger whole of the film. That Jarre was able to accomplish this is all the more surprising because, as he states in the CD booklet, he had only 6 weeks to compose the film score.

The production of the soundtrack is crystal-clear and strong. The drums are crisp and reverberant, and the elements of the orchestra is balanced on the recording.

For those who loved the film and its score, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is essential