Various Artists – The Sound Of Music (Original Soundtrack) – CD

With a stunning score by Rodgers & Hammerstein, the 1965 film The Sound of Music boasted a dream cast led by Julie Andrews (Maria) and Christopher Plummer (Captain). Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Scoring of Music, The Sound of Music made Hollywood history, becoming the most popular movie musical ever made. The soundtrack includes instantly recognizable hits like “Edelweiss,” “My Favorite Things,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” “The Lonely Goatherd” and “The Sound of Music.”

Upon release, the soundtrack reached #1 in the Billboard 200 chart and remained Top Ten for 109 weeks. The album was the best-selling album in the United Kingdom in 1965, 1966 and 1968 and the second best-selling of the entire decade, spending a total of 70 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart. The album has since gone on to sell over 20 million copies worldwide.

Disc: 1
1 Prelude And The Sound Of Music (Film Version)
2 Overture
3 Preludium (Dixit Dominus)
4 Morning Hymn And Alleluia
5 Maria (Film Version)
6 I Have Confidence (Film Version)
7 The Little Dears
8 The Gazebo
9 Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Film Version)
10 New Governess
11 My Favorite Things (Part 1)
12 My Favorite Things (Part 2) And Salzburg Montage
13 Do-Re-Mi
14 Alleluia (Reprise)
15 You Must Help It
16 The Sound Of Music (Reprise) (Film Version)
17 The Captain Apologizes
18 The Lonely Goatherd
19 Edelweiss (Duet)
20 Grand Waltz
21 The Laendler
22 So Long, Farewell
23 Processional Waltz
24 Goodbye Maria (How Can Love Survive)
25 Edelweiss Waltz (Act I Finale)

Disc: 2
1 Entr’acte
2 The Sound Of Music (Fragment)
3 Children To The Abbey
4 Morning Hymn (Organ)
5 Climb Ev’ry Mountain (Film Version)
6 My Favorite Things (Reprise)
7 Nocturne – Captain And Elsa
8 Nocturne – Captain And Maria
9 Something Good (Film Version)
10 Processional And Maria (Film Version)
11 The Laendler (Quintet)
12 Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Reprise)
13 Unthinkable
14 Do-Re-Mi (Festival Reprise)
15 Edelweiss (Festival Reprise)
16 So Long, Farewell (Festival Reprise)
17 The Awards Fanfare
18 Nuns And Nazis
19 Escape
20 Climb Ev’ry Mountain (Reprise)
21 End Cast