Fantasia (Remastered Original Soundtrack Edition) [Import] [Soundtrack]

Disc: 1
1. Toccata And Fugue In D Minor - (by Bach)
2. Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
3. Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Chinese Dance
4. Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Dance of the Reed Flutes
5. Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Arabian Dance
6. Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Russian Dance
7. Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Waltz of the Flowers
8. Sorcerer's Apprentice
9. Rite of Spring
Disc: 2
1. Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) Op. 68: I Allegro Ma Non Troppo
2. Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) Op. 68: II Andante Molto Mosso
3. Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) Op. 68: III Allegro/IV Allegro/V Allegretto
4. Dance of the Hours
5. Night on Bald Mountain
6. Ave Maria, Op. 52 No. 6

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It's hard to believe now that Walt Disney's bold 1940 impressionistic experiment in wedding then-state-of-the-art animation with classical music was a rather resounding failure upon its release. The cliché proves the rule: Fantasia was decades ahead of its time (Disney even launched a "psychedelic"-themed rerelease campaign in the late '60s). It's even harder to fathom that then-Disney management spent over a million dollars in the early '80s replacing the muscular Leopold Stokowski score with a digitally recorded clone, then another undisclosed fortune to digitize Leo and put him back alongside Mickey at the conductor's podium in the '90s! This much-traveled Stokowski score will gain no points for subtlety (a symphonic Shaq attack is more like it), but it was Walt's first--and only!--choice and has never sounded better. --Jerry McCulley

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Most helpful customer reviews   Fantasia: THE ORIGiNAL VERSION!, Jun 1 2004 By  Joel Henderson (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews    In 1939, Walt Disney colaborated with Leopold Stokowski to create a new marvel of sight and sound. The resulting film Fantasia is for many the zenith of Disney's film output in the early forties. It was also unique in that it was the first film to feature multichannel stereo sound ("Fantasound" for the lack of a better word). The films soundtrack has been released on tape and lp several times before, however this appears to be the only release of Fantasia on cd. Technically the cd is verry good, representing Stokowski's music to the fullest. The main problem, and reason behing many of the complaints on this site, is that the recording wasn't that good to begin with. As a fan and longtime viewer of Fantasia, I've noticed that the film never seemed to be fully mixed properly, and was tinny on occasion. Those problems come through warts and all on this cd. That said, this is about as good as it gets for the original recording of Fantasia*. *There is the 1981 "digital" version out there if you look hard enough. Was this review helpful to you?