Solaris 1972 Theme

[howitzergun]

It`s my favourite book of all times.

[evaibohus]

Underbart och meditativt........

[macanudo1808]

de ahi el famoso programita de sun systems.

[ps3userable]

Just watched it today. Astonishing! And this music wonderful.

[kajsije]

Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 639)

[TheRandomSweed]

Solaris... 

[miljenko1]

can't believe some critics called Solaris a "Soviet" response to Kubrick's 2001. If you compare Solyaris to 2001 you'll see that Solyaris is far more spiritual, even religious (thus more "non-Soviet") than Kubrick's 2001. Tarkovsky was a profoundly spiritual man, which inevitably put him at odds with Soviet nomenclature, and eventually made him leave USSR. Plus this choice for the score "I Call Upon Thee, Lord Jesus Christ", it all kind of makes sense, doesn't it?

[TheRandomSweed]

@miljenko1 Agreed. Tarkovsky's Solaris has nothing to do with Kubricks "2001" in any way.

[AV58]

@TheRandomSweed Thr's nthng to compr Solaris is the POEM, 2001 is a show :-))

[lispectorando]

@miljenko1 Maybe not really a Soviet response, but a Slavic/Eastern-European response nonetheless? That would definitely explain the spirituality.

[morphicID]

@lispectorando so you mean central europe is spiritual enough. lol

[qazplmthv]

I want this played at my funeral.

[neblitude]

@qazplmthv I had this played at my mother's funeral.

[KKarkaz]

george clooney opened 4 accounts to dislike this.. I do not see any other reason that someone would dislike this

[Stukov16]

@KKarkaz Hahaha!!!

[datojana]

tarkovsky is the poet!

[GilesRitter9]

Then you do not hold strong enough bonds with your associations.

[KinoReticulator]

I once asked, rather foolishly, Who ever heard of a pipe organ in a Russian movie or anything Russian? Or at least where it isn't associated with the German bad guys?  (I had recently been watching Alexander Nevsky.) How I could have forgotten this theme in Solaris, I don't know, because I was hardly able to breathe when that music was played the first time I saw it. The fact that it's a fake pipe organ doesn't matter. Thanks for posting it here.

[GalacticalJive]

T.E.E.D. sent me here

[STNEIDERIN]

best

[manic6030]

J.S. Bach music, played by Eduard Artemiev and the sound of the ANS synthesizer... Sweet music!

[TheME274]

i love this song, learning it right now. i want this song to be played for my wedding (with bachs pelude in C major->BWV 846) AND funnel (along with chopins funnel march:)

[EGarrastazu]

@TheME274 for your wedding? haha

[HanSolo11589]

Next you'll be bitching at the Kubrick estate for using Beethoven in A Clockwork Orange.

[FoliesEspagne]

This has nothing to do with Solris whatsoever. It is just a stolen piece by JS Bach. It should be forbidden that precious music is misused for bloody films and take your precious associations away and substitute them with commercial movies. Please remove this commercial

[Voyksed]

@FoliesEspagne You can't steal an idea. You can only steal concrete things.

[FoliesEspagne]

@Voyksed the music is very concrete and is note for note stolen. How more concrete must it be?

It has nothing to do with ideas it is the note-for-note-product.

[Voyksed]

@FoliesEspagne If you have a piano and I take it for me, you are left without a piano. If you play a note, and I play that same note, what are you left without?

[FoliesEspagne]

@Voyksed Right never heard of copyright or spiritual property? When I use paint to reproduce a Picasso I have not created a new work but have stolen the idea that Picasso invented. It would be fair to pay hommage to Picasso in that case. Anyway a bloody movie to misuse one of the best Bach pieces is still giving me fever.

[Voyksed]

@FoliesEspagne yes, I heard of copyright = right to copy. Never really heard of "spiritual property", only intellectual property, which is the concept I'm questioning. You can't steal an idea, because stealing an item implies living the owner of the item without the item. It is ironic that Picasso himself said "good artists copy, great artists steal". Bach incorporated notes from Vivaldi in his music. Tarkovsky incorporated a piece of Bach in his masterpiece movie.

[Voyksed]

@FoliesEspagne This embodies the spirit of free speech: "I'm free to say anything I want, even if somebody already said that before. And attribution is a matter or courtesy, not of obligation".

[GilesRitter9]

@FoliesEspagne You stupid, stupid person...If you only knew what you are saying. Its Tarkovsky you are talking about. As big as Bach. Be careful.

[FoliesEspagne]

@GilesRitter9 You cannot take any film seriously when the music is stolen and the cineast should know that it takes away precious memories of the ones who love that particular music. You cannot undo that process. In the best case it is considered that the audience of the film never heard the music by Bach and that the people who like Bach will not be the potential audience. Stupidity is to call the music "the Solaris Theme."

[GilesRitter9]

@FoliesEspagne Stolen? Who stole what? If it took precious memories from you, I am so very sorry. If thats what bothers you, then let me assure you, the film gave some precious moments to other people too. Its film...not music and images...you must consider it as one whole thing. Its not a matter of "knowing" Bach or not. Its a matter of emotional impact. And Tarkovsky wasnt calling it "Solaris Theme", maybe you should read on him and find out how devoted and loving he was of Bach.

[FoliesEspagne]

@GilesRitter9 "Its a matter of emotional impact" Now we are getting somewhere. For Bach lovers the impact is in the music. Everything attached to it is an alien host, makes it a cheap commercial trick. Bad taste, no respect for the the artistry of the composer or the associations of the Bach-lovers. Is that so hard to comprehend?

[GilesRitter9]

@FoliesEspagne I believe you are condemning the very purpose of art. What does it matter if you are a "Bach lover" or not? If it touches your soul, its art...simple. Yes, the impact is in the music..but this is FILM- the impact is in the image AND the sound. Honestly, read some on Tarkovsky. You may come to see that if both him and Bach would have lived at same eras, they would have been the best of friends!!!

[FoliesEspagne]

@GilesRitter9 Sorry why don't you give an answer to my simple question? Investing in good filmmusic contributes considerably to the quality of the film ( for instance Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Yann Tiersen).

At least the cineast shows that the film without music is no film and stealing is of course out of the question Reminds me of an instruction of a Bachpiece for the electric guitar with the introduction "You probably recognize this piece as a car commercial". 

[GilesRitter9]

@FoliesEspagne Dude, theres really no point in arguing with you..."film without music is no film"??? really? Think first, man...And I feel sorry, as it seems youve had some tormenting Bach experiences..

[FoliesEspagne]

@GilesRitter9 Correct those are just images. Even the "silent" Charlie Chaplin films had some piano rolls in the background. But that is besides the point. To get into your mind because you obviously think that your views are shared by the rest of the world: what will you think if your favorite classical music which you dearly love and you have precious memories associated with that music will be used in a any film?

The images will substitute those associations. Mark my words.

[oncelostmain]

@FoliesEspagne "Bloody flims"? Have you seen the Solaris?

[Cassavius]

Play this on my funeral...that is if they ever find the corpse...

That or play Mighty Science Theatre...with "IT STINKS!" as the stinger.

[metdursun]

deadly beautiful

[uneedtherapy42]

@metdursun indeed

[valvetrom]

@metdursun Beloved Sai Baba just died

[100irissa]

This movie is beautiful and strange.

I didn't get the end, but it doesn't matter, because i loved the whole movie anyway. the atmosphere and the music are amazing

[dinnerpianist]

Used for rueful affect in SOLARIS in suggesting that any contact and intervention by radically different life forms would most likely result in tragically misguided results. Bach's music suggested that mankind's existential dread might be assuaged by reaching out to a merciful deity. Might that also be tragically misguided? Just a thought.

[tangoseven70]

If you cut the soul, this is what pours forth.

[erghtrfgh]

@tangoseven70 juicy!

[AmbientFilmProd]

does anyone know what Bach recording this is from? who is the soloist?

[00307891]

Choral Prelude in F minor, JS Bach, arranged by Edward Artemiev in the film by Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solaris"

[fleshtrashheat]

@00307891 thank you!

[ApppleMilkk]

Hurry up and kill me, i want to hear this in my funeral

[Mazurka1001]

Mind-boggling beauty.

[thefourthway]

Moving and lyric. Atmosphere and an electronic soundscape to match Bach's spirituality and Tarkosvky's metaphysical visions. Great work by Artemiev and his mastering the ANS synth.

[8SteveGerrard8]

@thefourthway let's not forget but give credit to the writer of Solyaris....Stanislav Lem!

[UberGenesis]

how the fuck did i went from awesome DNB to this cry

[yokcocuk]

i remember a scene from the film...Kris and Hari..together...in a room...and i wanna die :)

[szilvavirag]

I'm trembling from the sheer, ethereal beauty of this. If this is the theme of the film I have to see it!!!!!

[lazord1991]

@Golmon251 But who chosed this wonderful peice? What most people don't get it about Tarkovsky's movies that it is like art! Pure cinematic art.

[lazord1991]

This is too beautiful to handle! Tarkovsky is a poetic genius.

[gusheneshin]

which organ player acctually recorded this for the original film by Tarkovskij?

[MsRetrofuture]

@gusheneshin

Edward Artemyev on synthesizer ANS.

[gusheneshin]

@MsRetrofuture Thanks very much, but I was talking about

the organ player, not the electronical score upon that.

[box969]

Божественная мелодия

[Ilikelimpbizkit]

Does anyone know which preformance of Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ this is?

[errolthehamster]

@Ilikelimpbizkit

I believe that the performance on the Solaris Soundtrack was played by Soviet Organist Leonid Roizman.

If you listen to the performance by Roizman on Melodiya (MEL CD 1001230), it sounds identical to the performance on the soundtrack

[TakovskyPoetOfCinema]

I dont want this played when i am dead

i want it played when i am alive,

Bach's music is eternal

[BILMANDUDE]

is this song played in F Minor? i cant remember what it said when i watched in uni today :P

[amcint01]

@BILMANDUDE Yes, it is F minor. At least the original organ transcription I play from is.

[karademir1981]

great music,great movie...

[DmitriyUA]

"A Man's life passes..., he has lived through a life..., worked..., thought..., lived!

And even then... he feels he didn't understand it enough. He knows nothing, utterly NOTHING!... All he knows is USELESS.... He only accumulated hope thoughout his entire life. His hopelessness about trying to understanding life (in vain), has given him this huge amount of hope. Hope for the unknown. He can die now in peace. He has seen the light, without knowing what is is..."

[Lumpen12]

@DmitriyUA As we russian or soviets say - Hope dies last. And this music is about it. Bach is always inside us.

[MateusTTTT]

I also noticed a russian mood. Not that I understand them (russians) at all.. just collective incounciousness, or something like it.

But it might be because of the interpreter of this piece, for Solaris, is russian.

[hotello2009]

Not for everybody, but sublime

[EdvvardCash]

creepy song

[janick1ultramarine]

theres nothin russian in the Ich Ruf Zu Dir Herr Jesu Christ per se. It sounds somewhat slavic-soviet in the Solaris coz Eduard Artemyev has arranged it for the movie. Solaris is in the top 10 films of the XX cetury.

[Quex01]

There is nothing Russian sounding in Bach, lol. It's just that Tarkovski was very fascineted by this composer.

[draqonofwhitestars]

@Quex01

you are wrong. Bach music expresses the struggle and vastness of people of Russia throughout centuries, changing like tunes of this song, beautiful in its sadness.

[hurting]

There's something almost Russian-sounding about this particular Bach piece - when I saw the film I wouldn't have guessed it was Bach even though now it makes perfect sense.

[Gendibal77]

ya quiero verla muy prontitio la vere

[balaguerdoctor]

¡Cómo me gustó esta película! muy lenta pero ese tempo es necesario y esta MÚSICA de J.S. Bach es imponente.¡Bravo!

[agostoagosto25]

watch?v=gM4O593Pzm4

On this video a synthesizer IN WORK !

invent on 1938

The first working model be under construction from 1946 to 1958

[agostoagosto25]

( not a organ)

Plays the first-ever optiko-electronic synthesizer ANS

[Nickk356]

haha!

[snoobss]

"Bach ist Anfang und Ende aller Musik"

Max Reger

[ThomasGrey1]

That's absolutely fascinating.

[thebeatcreeper]

Bach

[gahrzahk]

Just joking, remember Spinal Tap?

"It gives us more power, when we crank it to eleven!"

"Then why don't you just change the dial to ten?"

"Because it gives us more power..."

[monachos81]

Yeah! Haha. I was hoping that your volume really did go up to 11 - in homage to Spinal Tap! :-)

[gahrzahk]

I love many classical composers, but this sounds faint even when I turn the volume nob to 11. Can someone post a better version of this?

[monachos81]

Your volume nob goes to 11?? That's awesome! :D

[iguarni]

CHORALE PRELUDE: ICH RUF ZU DIR

[kozgun]

Divine!

[technoforbeer]

この曲がすべての始まりだった。

This tune was the beginning of everything.

Vielen Dank.

[ancientlykaion]

thank you BarroHandel

[minasgekos]

the final scene uses the same choral but with

Edward Artemyev's synthesizers on top.

[Brock2097]

Plus some vibraphone/marimbas I think.

[slowwavesoftstar]

It the very solemn is tune, and height even if short. The movie was also very good. Thank you.

[ruizj2006]

the music sounds haunting. I like it.

[truetheatertype]

It's a pretty haunting movie. You should see it.

(NOT the George Clooney version.)

[ryofurue]

The original Bach version is for the organ (like the present performance), but doesn't the film use an electronic synthesizer? I may be misremembering, though.

[Namfooodle]

I'm pretty sure the film had this exact same version.

[THEFRANKLINFILM]

It is the same version.

[cosmo2593]

Beautiful

[Sammut81]

This music stirs memory's in me.

[zhangyi1987]

巴赫很伟大，老塔也伟大

[BarroHandel]

That Choral is "Ich ruf zu dir Herr Jesu Christ" by Johann Sebastian Bach.

[smokinbill]

where can i learn how to play this on the organ?

[xuNx17eVenx]

...Eduard Artemyev...

...he wrote all music for Andrej Tarkovskij's films...you can find this version, all themes of Stalker, The Mirror and one track called "For aAndrej Tarkovskij"...in one album called with the name of these films...

...(...sorry for my english, i'm iTa...XD...)...

[bobbyd66]

Anyone one know which performance this is???

[sebastiancarbonell]

Where, but WHERE can I find this?!

[tgamirov]

DOWNLOAD AND ENJOY!

Soundtrack | Solaris. The Mirror. Stalker | Edward Artemyev (1972, 1975, 1979)

Remove all spaces from the link below,then paste into browser,there you'll download 2 parts of the soundtrack via rapidshare for free,then unzip them and you're done.

h t t p : / / f i l m m u s i c . r u / 2 0 0 8 /0 3 /2 9 / s o u n d t r a c k - s o l a r i s - t h e - m i r r o r - s t a l k e r /

[mbkarhu]

This music has haunted me since I was a kid and saw this film not knowing it was new. I later spend a lot of time trying to find Bach-something in the local library. The film and the music - a masterpiece can reach even not so cultural and cultivated children.

[HardcoreHooligan888]

it sounds so beutiful and so sinister....is simply geat!!!

[Farshad79]

This is what i want to be played when i die.

[draqonofwhitestars]

@Farshad79

you want to die? And what would music be of any use at all to you?

Or do you want to know that people at your grave will weep for you?

Would that make you content, their sadness that is?

[draqonofwhitestars]

@Farshad79

you go ahead...

I don't plan on dying and if death takes me, why bother people who would come to my memory with such music? Would you want sorrow on memories of you after death? I know I wouldn't.

[BartManNL]

@Farshad79 I'll be there to listen. And probably cry.

[erghtrfgh]

@Farshad79 do you deserve it?

[tae01515]

俺は神の名を叫ぶ！

[cristobalcohen]

TALKING IS CHEAP.

SILENCE, SIMPLICITY AND WORK.

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.

love bresson and andrei.

[DChatc]

This rendering of Choral Prelude in F Minor is eerie and haunting. It is indeed perfect for this movie also since it captures the vastness and mystery which both outer and inner space represents.

[naxus7]

MASTERPIECE, MASTERMOVIE

[nincocytus]

hi do you know who composed the tune and if its got a name or opus number? ta

[Ratnayake31]

It is J.Sebastian Bach

[strashiLOL]

BWV 639 (Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ)

[FlavioGirl]

thank you for sharing this. this is one of my favorite pieces.

[OSHIDesu]

Sounds good