Vangelis talks about his score for Chariots of Fire

[zoolook3264]

Vangelis,Jean-Michel Jarre,Mike Oldfield - I am so glad I live in the time of their music, very inspirational in my own - thank you to the 3 of them for their fantastic music and live shows

[ledepi34]

In terms of score, Chariots of Fire is my favorite movie. And I find AMAZING that they have never included one of the original musics from the movie on the vinil or cd. It's this one which plays in this video from 2:16 to 2:53.

[ledepi34]

I don't understand english extremely well. In this moment in 2:11 , Hugh Hudson says: "It was one of the first times electronic music was used in Cinema..." - Ok. What does he say next?

[mcamoran]

Από τις μεγαλύτερες παγκόσμιες πνευματικές μορφές!!!

[sfakianos7]

Ultimate μάγγας.

[maites1000]

mozart vivaldi beethoven at their time BUT now ONLY VANGELIS PAPATHANASIOU HIS THE BEST

[Surannhealz]

L'Enfant is great, but ya....he beat it, no doubt.

[danceswithcrayons]

I believe that music is the language of the soul too! Great interview, Thankyou for sharing.

[Numboss]

Vangelis wrote some great music. I especially like his score for the film The Bounty.

[maites1000]

sorry VANGELIS

[maites1000]

vangelis is THE BEST OF THE BEST

είναι ο καλύτερος όλων των εποχών

[krackfoxtube]

40% of the films success? l dont think anyone would have heard of the film now without that music.

[adam872]

Vangelis score is one of the things that makes this movie so great and so enduring. The theme song is not even the best piece in the score, either (IMHO). I reckon Harold's Theme is one of the great pieces of movie music ever recorded.

[MsDAwId82]

love his music

[TheMCMXXL]

Ah, "Heaven and Hell". /watch?v=iGv3TXpVWw8

[TheMCMXXL]

From where was "Chariots of fire"? I remember in one of his older Albums (1975-1979) a sequence where he played the beginning of "Chariots of fire", but can´t remember were. But it´s true.

[drchepa]

@TheMCMXXL in heaven and hell 1975 there is a a short sequence less developed that heared in 1981, if you listen cosmos you'll realise that they are similars but not the same....

[firstmusic00]

@drchepa I agree. Chariots Of Fire owes much to Heaven and Hell, part 1.

[generalcircle]

His full name is Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou

Pronounced : Ee vangelose odisee ass paapa tanass ee oo

[mdsftx]

This movie's opening scene and musical score are some of the most moving ever filmed.

The only other song for a movie, that when people hear it, instantly associates the song and movie is the "Gonna Fly Now" in Rocky when the trumpets start blaring.

[LaYinGdoWnTHeTRuTH99]

the man is a genius. his music is pure emotion, inspiration and nostalgia.

and thank you for your videos about him.

by the way, my advice to you would be to ignore youtube trollers and reply only to those with genuine interest in this living legend, you're just wasting your time otherwise... keep up the great posts!

[phileodreams]

Un compositeur très spirituel, aux oeuvres inspirées...

Je lui dédicace VIVAX mon oeuvre par amitié pour lui...

L'Apocalypse des animaux, un trésor...

[BiohazardPhilosopher]

Vangelis Rocks, i am a great fan of him & his scores are unique

[electroedd1]

quite simply the maestro!

[ONEyeMarco]

wow, i can recognize that melody anywhere , never knew this was the guy who made it till now

[CrazyNative4]

vangelis is one hell of an artist! :)

[CrazyNative4]

i don't give a damn how old he is, he kicks ass! :)

[AquarielCharms]

Vangelis is one of the greatest musicians and composers of our time. Vangelis will be remembered like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (& other great composers of the past) and his music will live on forever.

[CrazyNative4]

damn right

[CrazyNative4]

damn right

[inuyashauca]

We're talking about a musician with over 40 years experience. Please care

[kd4pba]

Electronic music being terrible is an opinion

[chukmaty]

Most electronic music was terrible, Vangelis was a very rare exception.

Blade Runner was fantastic as well musically.

[Boudosaved]

What about Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk, Devo...

[revokdaryl1]

Yes, and Depeche Mode, New Order, OMD...

[bllsmith12]

20 yrs ago when I 1st heard chariots of fire I was stunned.i never had enough listening to it.vangelis is one of the few music geniuses in this world.some people have just developped extrasense for heavenly music others can barely listen

[androoow]

age is just a label.. and is your comment some kind of insult? what are you trying to say?

[BarryDennen12]

What are you on about? Blah blah blah... I was just a bit surprised to see him so old.

[dkickboxer]

What exactly did you expect?

[BarryDennen12]

Elvis.

[jaxiiiboy]

@androoow damn you're dumb. It was just a statement!

[androoow]

@jaxiiiboy which statement are you referring too? you tubes new comment system is useless.

[Atolis2008]

@BarryDennen12: Vangelis made the score with the age of 38 (1981). But this interview is from 2005, where he was 62...

[markykeys]

poor film great music vangelis is the best

[EnzoTheBaker]

poor film? why you!

[chukmaty]

Great movie, great music.

This movie is a very rare masterpiece on so many levels.

[cypriot1000]

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou

ο Έλλην!

[tylerdurden1975]

thx for sharing

[dervit]

Fantastic, thanks for sharing this. This dude is so illusive and camera shy there's virtually nothing on him. This video is a collectors item.

[madmomentsgo]

a great composer :)

[retrosound72]

great!

thanks for posting

[maximilianmusic]

Chariots Of Fire made 40% success of this film???

99.99%!!!

Vangelis Is a Greatest Composer!!!

My teacher

[Outhaban]

how u pronouce his last name dam!!!

[jaxNEANDERTHAL]

this guy is a super talented musician geniues

chariots of fire music is a timles piece of music

[synthisist]

My favourite composer and musician, (followed by Jean Michel Jarre, SKY and a few others for non-Christian music).

Vangelis, you are a genius, and you used that incredible talent in "Chariots of Fire" to bring out that messege of "He who honours God, God honours him"!

(Perhaps he's doing that for you- I don't know!!! At least we should honour him!!!)

God Bless!

[aristidispas]

Go and see("Movement 1"from Mythodea-Vangelis)

From Vangelis Papathanasiou!!"Mythodea: Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey" is a choral symphony by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis performed at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens on June 28, 2001.Mythodea was made the official theme music of the mission involving the NASA unmanned spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars.Toso shmantikoi einai oi ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ!!!

[d2eux]

genius

[LUDWIGPARIS]

The modern-day Mozart.

[alienmig23]

vaggelis o xasapaklas

[firstmusic00]

I just don't get why your so thick-headed as to not give credit to the achievements of athletes from the past. Abrahams was a fast man...period! No matter who you're comparing him to or from what time period. I'll say again...84 years ago the man ran a 10.60 in the 100 meters...a mear 9/10th of a second behind Bolt's best time.

[firstmusic00]

From what I've read about Harold Abrahams, he was obbessed about being the fastest man on the planet in the 100 meters and had his sights firmly fixed in the 1924 Olympic gold medal. His work ethic was second to none. He worked every bit as hard as Bolt has.

[firstmusic00]

Also, how do you think Bolt would do under the same circumstances? Same training, same shoes and running on the same dirt/sand track. I'll bet that 9/10th of a second shrinks quite a bit.

[firstmusic00]

Do you realize that in the 1924 Olympics Harold Abrahams ran the 100 meters in 10.6 seconds? Bolt ran it 9.69 seconds. Is that a big difference? Yes...but not as much as you might think.

[aeonflux67]

The athletes at those Olympics in 1928 would be slaughtered in their chosen events by modern athletes. CRUSHED! would be a polite word by todays true CHAMPIONS and SUPERSTARS.

[joncosm]

nobody is going to be as stupid as to compare them

[aeonflux67]

I am. It obvious that the pre WWII Olympians were only a shadow of the modern ones. Simple lack of application, effort, skilling, fitness...the works.

[DarkBolder]

Yeah, your stupid enough to compare them... you dipshit.

[firstmusic00]

That's like comparing a 1928 race car to a modern day F1 car. What's the point? You need to keep the comparisons accurate and relivant. You're an idiot for trying to compare them.

[aeonflux67]

The point is watching this movie and seeing Eric - or whatever his name is - race the 100m is more like watching a comedy than ever after watching Mr Bolt from Jamaica blow the field off the map last night in Beijing in the 100m in 9.68seconds. I see olden days sports contestants and their so called achievements as nothing more than embarrassing

So to make a movie out of them as though they are something worth recognising is equally embarrassing. Though Vangelis music was nice at least.

[firstmusic00]

The 2 posts I've read from you have told me eveything I need to know about you.

You...outta the gene pool! :(

[aeonflux67]

No - just a superior member of the pool

[gxtksh329]

would be interesting to see how well todays athletes would do with the ancient equipment, gear and rules from 1928...

[aeonflux67]

Usain Bolt on grass/cinder tracks etc with those 1928 shoes would still be able to run backwards and beat those guys. Its about the physical superiority not track or equipment. He trains better, eats better, is more dedicated, trains harder, pushes himself to the limit and sport is life. These dudes above look like they rolled our of an English pub one day and thought..."oh lets give it a go". Sorry...but Usain and his modern day peers would eat these dudes for breakfast.

[gxtksh329]

Well, Bolt eats his modern day peers for breakfast too so of course he would do quite well. But how well? We don't know. With anyone else the difference would not be as big as you think.

If equipment didn't matter then why doesn't anyone today use the 1928 type shoes or clothes? Of course it matters. Companies spend millions to develop new material which will help catch the "impossible" records. If it's just about eating and training better then you'd better tell them all about it....

[aeonflux67]

I mean the equipment doesnt matter in terms of - if the olden day runners wore modern Nike then they wouldnt match Bolt. And if Bolt wore the clogs of the 1920's as they did then they still wouldnt match Bolt. So same equipment, Bolt is still superior. Its about the fact that the man is a physically superior being. The olden days, people didnt think of putting in the hard work and sacrifice of modern day athletes.

[gxtksh329]

The athletes today slaughter the records of the past. You just need to go back 20 or 10 years and in some sports not even that much and there is a difference.

Are you suggesting that the athletes in let's say Atlanta 1996 had bad eating and training habits, or that they simply weren't as motivated as athletes today and that they didn't put that much hard work into it?

[aeonflux67]

When Carl Lewis ran 9.98 or close to win the LA games 100m gold in 1984 he would have finished about 3m behind Usain Bolt at Beijing. Lopez's Marathon time in 1984 was still Olympic record till these games 2hr.09 compared to 2hr.06 which has been described as something extraordinary. Sergei Bubka the pole volter would is the sports best from late 80's still. So no...these athletes in 80's were the start of the "business athletes". Live, eat and drink their sport to reach perfection.

[aneily]

what synths did he use to get that warm sound?

[KRAFTWERK2K6]

well mostly the Yamaha CS80 for his fanfare and brass sounds.

[audie83]

Thank you for posting this! Vangelis is a genius. Film composers like he and John Williams are not considered at the great level of composers like Bach, Mozart of Beethoven-but neither did those legends contemporaries.

I believe composers like Vangelis and John Williams will be remembered over a hundred years from now-and the greatness of their work much more appreciated by future listeners. :)

[drchepa]

vangelis also has a lot of stuff to be remenbered, and even not published yet!.....

[MuizeekPhanahtic]

(2 of 2)

Coincidentally, "L'Enfant" was the central theme to the film 'Year Of Living Dangerously' starring Mel Gibson (not available on soundtrack). It was Vangelis who scored the film 'The Bounty' (a re-make, with Mel Gibson & Anthony Hopkins), so Vangelis & Mel were featured in 2 movies together! Interesting footnote. I'd just like to add that "Titles" (the main music finally used in 'Chariots Of Fire') is brilliant and touching; sounds like a birth, or dawn of a new day. Great clip. A+!

[MuizeekPhanahtic]

(1 of 2)

Thanks 4 posting this informative/enjoyable clip from 'Chariots Of Fire' (part of Special Features on the DVD). "L'Enfant" is a remarkable/beautiful track that could have done just as nicely if it was used in the final production (it's available on his 'Opera Sauvage' album and 'Themes' compilation album). Vangelis is a one-of-a-kind talent that this world is blessed for having because he translates perfect the bonds between music and heart; the emotion pours through and sustains. A+!

[irishmanufan]

this is very interesting thank you . i love music of vangelis . it also helped me out because i was looking for the title of the song l'enfant after hearing used as incidental music on a tv show from last year . i knew it was by vangelis but not what the track was called !

[bus114]

Is the music at 0:41 the theme he's referring to as the one that was originally going to be used for the beach sequence? If I'm not mistaken, that tune was used later in the film, in a different form, as the athletes marched into the Olympic stadium for the opening ceremony.

[sid1662]

No, it was never used and it only appears in Opera Savage -- much better piece I think...

[bus114]

sid1662, listen to the tune again, then listen to the march as the athletes enter the stadium (search for "chariots of fire parade" to see the scene on youtube). Same motif in a different form, is it not?

[justdoodleit]

What Music! What an OST! Perhaps the finest ever composed for cinema. Its grandeur and beauty is soul stirring. I first hear it as schoolboy on Televison 20 years ago and even to this day this track still gives me goosebumps.

[mpc60mk3000]

Shows the true power and beauty of what a synthesizer can do in the hands of genius.

[justdoodleit]

Are you into making music?

[RunningOnFull]

It's a shame that Vangelis didn't include the cue from 2:05-2:57 in the new remastered album, it really is one of my favorites from the movie.

[BestOfTheBestNumber9]

Loved his score for BLADE RUNNER...

[amaterman]

"...if you are precise, and say the right things with music from the soul, then you're going to be understood." Vangelis does what so many modern composers fail to do; he conveys a statement from the soul with his music. I'm a long distance runner, and this music captures exactly how I feel while I'm running. "Chariots of Fire" is the greatest title theme ever composed for a film.

[spendler21]

How can this man (Vangelis) be so unaware of his impact on society? I can't imagine life without his music, forrays into the magnificent and majestic and intergalactic, mind-travel to the mysterious and exciting, moments of calm and reverence and inspiration. Tks so much for bringing the man to life for us again. He's amazing!

[androoow]

Thats such a great comment , thanks..i agree..i couldn't imagine life without his music...i feel blessed to have shared in it for the last 30 years.

[spendler21]

Have to ask:  What do you mean "blessed to have shared in it for the last 30 yrs."?? Suggests more than satisfaction of the casual listener.....

[androoow]

i first heard his music around 1977/78 so i have been listening to him for 30 years, i don't mean i have had any input with Vangelis or his music . He and his music has had a major impact on my life,well beyond casual listening.

[goldyn1234]

great film and great music score.

[drchepa]

l'enfant was used for the frederik rossif documentaries both are very evocatives.

[hansenb1]

thanks, very interesting,. has vangelis made any tv appearances in 2007?

[drchepa]

i guess he'll talk about this 25th aniversary of the blade runner film in the dvd...he doesn't appear very much on the media really...

[hwyfan]

L'Enfant would have made an equally memorable track for the opening beach scene. I note in the brief clip they show in this interview, the runners were running more quickly and were spaced more broadly. Either one would have worked well.

[muhalifsirin]

Completely agree.

[NickPersyn]

Marvelous ! Thanks again for another Vangelis interview. Keep posting !