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- Artist: Maurice Jarre
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- Release Date: 1995
- Total Time: 69:27
- Type: Soundtrack
- Genre: Soundtrack
Review
Maurice Jarre wrote the central musical motif of his score for Doctor Zhivago, "Lara's Theme," in a few minutes in a hotel, amid a frantic five-week rush to score the 197-minute movie. That theme made the Doctor Zhivago soundtrack album one of the biggest selling soundtrack of the 1960s, a considerable feat when one reckons in the competition from A Hard Day's Night, Never on Sunday, A Man and a Woman, Exodus, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The rest of Jarre's score is more in the realm of lushly textured Russian-themed mood music, filled with dark male choruses, folk and folk-like themes, and dense orchestrations, sort of faux-Tchaikovsky. The stereo separation is used to good effect, and the music as a whole forms a kind of romantic/exotic travelogue as much as a dramatic sketch of the movie's action. The only drawback is that, given the length of the movie and the relatively short time that Jarre had to compose and record the score, there is a fair amount of repetition (one wishes that Jarre had been as lucky as Miklos Rozsa on Ben-Hur, with nearly a year to work on the music for that epic). The Sony CD was a considerable upgrade over the MGM LP and the mid-'80s MCA CD in both sound and content, adding a large body of incidental and intermission music built on the main themes from the film as well as several variants on "Lara's Theme." It, in turn, was supplanted by Rhino Records' 1995 re-release, which offered somewhat better sound quality and more than a half-dozen outtakes from the score. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Overture | Maurice Jarre | (4:22) | |
| Main Title | Maurice Jarre | (2:38) | |
| Kontakion/Funeral Song | Maurice Jarre | (3:15) | |
| Lara Is Charming | Maurice Jarre | (1:16) | |
| The Internationale | Maurice Jarre | (1:12) | |
| Lara and Komarovsky Dancing up a Storm | Maurice Jarre | (:40) | |
| Komarovsky With Lara in the Hotel | Maurice Jarre | (3:51) | |
| Interior Student Cafe [Outtake] | Maurice Jarre | (1:34) | |
| Sventitsky's Waltz/After the Shooting | Maurice Jarre | (2:17) | |
| Military Parade | Maurice Jarre | (2:11) | |
| They Began to Go Home | Maurice Jarre | (2:06) | |
| After Deserters Killed the Colonel | Maurice Jarre | (1:05) | |
| At the Hospital | Maurice Jarre | (1:00) | |
| Lara Says Goodbye to Yuri | Maurice Jarre | (1:27) | |
| Tonya Greets Yuri [Outtake] | Maurice Jarre | (:46) | |
| The Stove's Out [Outtake] | Maurice Jarre | (1:30) | |
| Yevgraf Snaps His Fingers [Outtake] | Maurice Jarre | (3:09) | |
| Evening Bells-Moscow Station | Maurice Jarre | (1:03) | |
| Flags Flying over the Train [Outtake] | Maurice Jarre | (1:04) | |
| Yuri Gazing Through a Tiny Open Hatch [Outtake] | Maurice Jarre | (:37) | |
| The Door Is Banged Opened [Outtake] | Maurice Jarre | (1:48) | |
| Intermission | Maurice Jarre | (:43) | |
| Yuri Follows the Sound of the Waterfall | Maurice Jarre | (:44) | |
| Tonya and Yuri Arrive at Varykino | Maurice Jarre | (2:56) | |
| They Didn't Lock the Cottage | Maurice Jarre | (1:33) | |
| Varykino Cottage, Winter Snow | Maurice Jarre | (:57) | |
| Yuri and the Daffodils | Maurice Jarre | (1:17) | |
| On a Yuriatin Street | Maurice Jarre | (1:36) | |
| In Lara's Bedroom | Maurice Jarre | (:34) | |
| Yuri Rides to Yuriatin | Maurice Jarre | (:22) | |
| Yuri Is Taken Prisoner by the Red Partisans | Maurice Jarre | (:49) | |
| For as Long as We Need You | Maurice Jarre | (:40) | |
| Yuri Is Escaping | Maurice Jarre | (2:17) | |
| Yuri Approaches Lara's Apartment | Maurice Jarre | (:50) | |
| Yuri Looks into the Mirror | Maurice Jarre | (:30) | |
| Lara and Yuri Arriving at Varykino | Maurice Jarre | (1:39) | |
| Yuri Is Trying to Write | Maurice Jarre | (1:19) | |
| Yuri Frightens the Wolves Away (Pt. 1) | Maurice Jarre | (:49) | |
| Lara Reads Her Poem | Maurice Jarre | (:40) | |
| Yuri Frightens the Wolves Away (Pt. 2) | Maurice Jarre | (1:55) | |
| Yuri Works On [Outtake] | Maurice Jarre | (:52) | |
| Then It's a Gift (End Title) | Maurice Jarre | (1:43) | |
| Lara's Theme [Jazz Version] | Maurice Jarre | (1:57) | |
| Lara's Theme [Rock 'N' Roll Version] | Maurice Jarre | (2:39) | |
| Lara's Theme [Swing Version] | Maurice Jarre | (1:15) |
