Excalibur Soundtrack CD Review

I will call Wagner the soundtrack to Excalibur - you can't really find the Excalibur soundtrack any more, but the more you know about classical music, the more you realize that pretty much this entire movie was done to Wagner scoring. Wagner's Ride of the Valkries was also used (as the photo on the album indicates) in Apocolypse Now, when the helicopters were staging their attack.


There is the low melody played when Merlin is working his magic. This is actually Sigfried's Funeral Music from Wagner and one of my favorite musical parts of the movie.

There is also the triumphant music played when Arthur is riding through the grove of trees, with petals falling down around him. That is part of Carl Orff's famous work Carmina Burana which is used in many, many movies. You can get Carmina Burana from Amazon.com.

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