2001: A Space Odyssey OST
2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey Soundtrack

7 songs

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

  • Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176: Prelude (Sonnenaufgang) — Karl Böhm & Berlin Philharmonic
    The Sun slowly rises behind Earth, which is behind the Moon. An ape realizes he can use a bone as a weapon. Dave transforms into the Star-Child.
  • Requiem For Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra — György Ligeti, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Francis Travis
    The simian humanoids encounter the monolith. The astronauts examine a monolith uncovered on the moon. Another monolith floats in space close to Jupiter.
  • The Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314 — Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert Von Karajan
    The space shuttle lands in the space station’s docking bay. A similar spacecraft lands on the moon.
  • Modern Chorusmusic: Lux aeterna — Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks & Helmut Franz
    The astronaut crew flies over the lunar surface towards the recently-uncovered monolith.
  • Gayaneh's Adagio — Gayane Ballet Suite) (Aram Ilyich Khachaturian, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
    The Jupiter mission after eighteen months.
  • Atmosphères — György Ligeti, Sudwestfunk Symphony Orchestra, Ernest Bour
    Bowman inadvertently enters a wormhole.
  • Aventures for 3 Singers and 7 Instrumentalists — Jane Manning & Mary Thomas & William Pearson & Ensemble InterContemporain & Pierre Boulez