PLATOON / SALVADOR

Label: Prometheus PCD 136
Date: 1986
Tracks: 20
Time = 51:07

Remastered reissue of original soundtracks to two films by director Oliver Stone. PLATOON finds Georges Delerue anchoring with string orchestra in Samuel Barber idiom, then moving into more complex, cerebral territory. Harmonically complex music results. Album also has Barber's "Adagio for Strings" which itself became centerpiece of otherwise mostly unused score. SALVADOR plays to action, aggressive backdrop of 1980-81 war experiences of journalist Richard Boyle. Delerue maintains intense feel of PLATOON but brings dynamic rhythm, strident melodic shape into fabric. Brass, woodwinds add to orchestral timbre as well. Cerebral string complexities of PLATOON balance with intense, dynamic rhythms of SALVADOR, offer two dramatic scenarios of war as composed by customarily melodic Delerue. Georges Delerue conducts Vancouver Symphony on both, adds choir to latter.

SALVADOR 1. MAIN TITLE "SALVADOR" (2:32) 2. EL PLAYON (2:16) 3. AT THE BORDER (1:12) 4. THE ROAD BLOCK (1:22) 5. THE ASSASSINATION (2:03) 6. CARLOS IS DEAD (0:52) 7. TANKS AND TROOPS (1:22) 8. SALVADOR (1:01) 9. GOODBYE, MARIA (1:38) 10. SIEGE AT SANTA ANA (3:18) 11. THE MOURNERS (1:22) 12. LOVE THEME - FINALE (4:24)

PLATOON 13. MAIN TITLE "PLATOON" (2:27) 14. BUNKER TO VILLAGE (3:32) 15. SORROW (1:58) 16. BARNES SHOOTS ELIAS / THE TURNING POINT (5:21) 17. THE SOUL OF AN INNOCENT (2:38) 18. KILLING BARNES / AFTERMATH (1:59) 19. FINALE (5:54) 20. ADAGIO FOR STRINGS (Barber - 6:51)