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01 - Remus* (1:58)
02 - The Box (2:20)
03 - My Right Arm (1:02)
04 - Odds And Ends (4:37)
05 - Repairs  (6:26)
06 - The Knife (3:09)
07 - Ideals (2:15)
08 - The Mirror (5:21)
09 - The Scorpion (2:21)
10 - Lateral Run (3:54)
11 - Engage (2:12)
12 - Final Flight (3:47)
13 - A New Friend (2:36)
14 - A New Ending  (6:08)
There have been many wonderful composers who have supplied music for the continuing voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Special mention must certainly be made of Alexander Courage, whose Star Trek Fanfare ushers virtually every entrance to Gene Roddenberry's universe. But when it comes to music for Star Trek, Jerry Goldsmith rules the galaxy. Goldsmith's sounds and themes have become Star Trek's music vernacular. Star Trek Nemesis is the composer's fifth feature film score for the franchise (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection being, of course, the other four) and his themes have been used for both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. Without question, Star Trek Nemesis presents some of the finest music of the entire series. It's powerful, even thunderous action score which also displays ingeniously dark textures in the chilling music which enshrouds Captain Picard's nemesis, Shinzon. A wonderful characteristic of this new score is heard in the fleeting but impactful glances astern... glimmers of themes and motifs from journeys past. Among these are a brief few bars which, in essence, brings Goldsmith's music for Star Trek full circle, revisiting the material he wrote for the very first theatrical glimpse of the Enterprise 23 years ago!
After so many years, scoring a new Star Trek adventure amounts to a kind of homecoming for the composer. In the case of Star Trek Nemesis this feeling was heightened all the more in that it reunited Goldsmith with director Stuart Baird. Goldsmith had not only scored Baird's two previous films as director (Executive Decision and U.S. Marshals) but also The Omen, on which Baird had, in 1976, served as film editor and for which the composer received an Academy Award.
In recording his new score, Jerry Goldsmith assembled much the same production team he has worked with on dozens of other pictures - in fact, many of the musicians who performed it have been with the maestro for decades. During sessions which took place on the Paramount Pictures lot on August 13-15,28, and a few final days in September, the legendary composer's laatest score was greeted with applaause and awe as the musicians themselves, and all those lucky enough to be in attendence, became the first audience to hear the latest themes and epic cues which now join one of the most extroadinary bodies of work any composer has ever created for a single film series. That Goldsmith continues to produce such scores with energy and enthusiasm - and as frequently as he does - remains a source of joy for his fans the world over.
- Robert Townson
Music Composed and Conducted By Jerry Goldsmith
* Contains "Theme from Star Trek - The TV Series" Composed by Alexander Courage, published by Bruin Music Company (BMI)
Contains "Theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture" Composed by Jerry Goldsmith, published by Ensign Music Corporation (BMI)
Contains "Blue Skies" Composed by Irving Berlin, published by Irving Berlin Music Co. (ASCAP)
Album Produced by Jerry Goldsmith
Executive Album Producer: Robert Townson
Music Editor: Ken Hall
Orchestrations by Mark McKenzie and Conrad Pope
Orchestra Contractor: Sandy De Cresent
Performed by: The Hollywood Studio Symphony
Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service
Computer Programming: Nick Vidar
Music Recorded and Mixed by Bruce Botnick at Paramount Pictures, Scoring Stage M
Assisted by Paul Wertheimer, Dominic Gonzales and Norm Diugatch
Assistant to Mr Goldsmith: Lois Garruth
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