Michel Legrand was best-known for pop-based scores like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Thomas Crown Affair, but was no less creative and dynamic in the symphonic Hollywood idiom. His Ice Station Zebra soundtrack is at once epic yet also offbeat, with powerful main themes dressed in an intricate web of mystery and suspense. The film is first and foremost a military story, but in Legrand's hands it becomes almost like a Cold War ballet, with a polished, artistic sheen to its danger. Legrand himself provided the terrific orchestrations and conducted the 75-piece orchestra in a five-channel stereo recording.

The Ice Station Zebra soundtrack was released on LP at the time of the film, a 30:14 program that was reissued on CD by Pendulum Entertainment Group in 1997 (now out-of-print). Film Score Monthly's premiere release of the complete score runs 79:20 (including deleted cues), is resequenced into film order, and remixed from the original master elements for significantly improved sound. It is the definitive presentation of the Ice Station Zebra soundtrack.

Packaging & Liner Notes
Standard jewel case. Superb colour booket with excellent liner notes.