I know this is completely out of left field, but if anyone has played Homeworld 2, did the opening bit of Resurrection Hub remind you of the HW2 soundtrack?
Nice find with the Youtube playlist! I love the BSG soundtracks, so I’ll probably grab this somewhere.
And yeah, it’s that one instrument. I can’t remember what it is, but it’s a very exotic and memorable sound.
Thanks for the youtube link! I’m now listening happily at work!
BTW, I know I’m only 6 tracks in, but I adored Farewell Apollo! (But then I adore most Celtic music. :D)
The Duduk?
The music faturette on the season 4.5 DVD set (don’t own a Blu Ray player so I haven’t gotten to see the music documentary in that set) has a little bit on that and the other “ethnic” woodwinds used in the score. I’d never even seen a duduk before and hadn’t heard of one till BSG. I wonder where I can find a duduk player in DC…
Blood On The Scales is one badass tune…
I always found that theme a bit annoying (especially early in the series), but I really love the arrangement for Farewell Apollo - I actually like the theme there! (and I usually like celtic music quite a bit 
it just always jarred me before). And just you wait until you get to the disc of Daybreak music, there’s some lovely work there
I searched at numerous stores last night and none of them had the soundtrack. Ahhh! I just ordered it from Amazon, though; I have to wait another week 
Listened to some of the playlist and it sounds AWESOME so far. “Kara’s Coordinates” destroys everything Bear McCreary has ever made before!
“Kara’s Coordinates”, Gaetes lament and Diaspora oratorio…just frakkin perfect
Funny thing is, I don’t usually like Celtic music, but I like the Adama family theme. The Daybreak stuff’s not my favorite either, at least in that it’s more like raw cues from the episode soundtrack rather than tracks that generate the feeling of concert pieces. There are some nice things in it, though.
I don’t know: that Diaspora Oratorio has some fine music in it. (I’m also partial to “Kara Remembers.” I just love the piano licks in that.)
Lazy browsing here, but are there any extra-special places to get it? Like, is Mr. McCreary selling autographed copies or something?
I just got my copy from Barnes & Noble.com today.
Kara Remembers has officially taken over from the full version of Watchtower as my favorite BSG song.
Both tracks are bad-ass!! Though I can’t put one over the other.
Yeah, it still isn’t my favorite by much. Once the newness factor wears off, it might switch back.
I’m probably the only one but “Diaspora Oratorio” isn’t even near my favorites. It’s nice, but it isn’t mindblowing or anything. I like like at least fifteen tracks on this CD more than that one. But “Kara Remembers” is brilliant.
Diaspora Oratorio is gorgeous, but it’s also very different from the rest of the BSG music. I’ll chime in with the “Kara Remembers” is brilliant bit, though I like to alternate it with “Kara’s Coordinates.” Fun times!
(spouse is getting sick of the soundtrack… must listen with headphones now. The neighbors probably appreciate it.)
Okay, I’ll grant you that. But what constitutes brilliance, ultimately?
(Yeah, good job asking the composer!)
What constitutes brilliance? Um…something I really, really, really, really love? LOL!
I think my favorites on the album (from what I’ve heard; need to hear it a bit more in-depth, but…) are Gaeta’s Lament, Resurrection Hub, Roslin Escapes, Among the Ruins, Cally Descends, Elegy, Blood on the Scales, Dreilide Thrace Sonata No. 1, The Line, Assault on the Colony, and then the rest of the second disc haha!
I’m not going to lie, from Kara’s Coordinates to the end I tend to tear up (esp. in Goodbye Sam and So Much Life). Though I don’t listen to “The Passage of Time” often, it goes with my whole I like the ending without Six/Baltar in present day (fun though it is, less emotional impact).
Yeah, the second half of the second disc is not only amazing musically but it packs such a punch. “So Much Life” is the one that is the most emotional, IMO. And I agree with you about the whole “An Easterly View” thing. People on Bear’s blog wanted the CD to end with “An Easterly View” but he tacked on “The Passage of Time”, anyways. It’s my one complaint from the album so far. I don’t really like the song because it sounds exactly like “One Year Later”, IMO, and while I really like “One Year Later”, I don’t want two almost-identical versions of the same song. Again, only complaint. Sorry if that sounded overly-critical or snobbish :o