Track Listing

1. Prelude and The Sound Of Music
2. Overture and Preludium (Dixit Dominus)
3. Morning Hymn & Alleluia
4. Maria
5. I Have Confidence
6. Sixteen Going On Seventeen
7. My Favourite Things
8. Do-Re-Mi
9. The Sound Of Music
10. The Lonely Goatherd
11. So Long, Farewell
12. Climb Ev'ry Mountain
13. Something Good
14. Processional and Maria
15. Edelweiss
16. Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Reprise)
17. Prelude/ The Sound Of Music (Bonus Track)
18. I Have Confidence (Bonus Track)
19. My Favorite Things/Salzburg Montage (Bonus Track)
20. Edelweiss (Bonus Track)
21. The Grand Waltz (Bonus Track)
22. Laendler (Bonus Track)
23. Processional Waltz (Bonus Track)
24. Something Good (Bonus Track)
25. The Chase (Bonus Track)
26. Escape/ Climb Ev’ry Mountain Reprise/Finale (Bonus Track)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20549 in Music
• Released on: 2006-08-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Album Description
The Sound of Music: 40th Anniversary Special Edition includes an additional 11 bonus tracks not on the original soundtrack plus a 12-page colour photo booklet.

Customer Reviews

Truly one of my "favourite things".
I have Condidence that nobody can call themselves a true affectionado of Sound of Music without this CD.
It contains the original 16 pieces from the film, beautifully sung by Maria, the Captain, the Children and the Chorus, plus eleven bonus tracks that make this CD even more of "something good", wiht exetended music, additional verses and esxtra soundtrack used on the film.
Rodger and Hammerstein outdo any other musical ever written herein, and this CD is worth every penny.

Another missed opportunity
No - I haven't bought the 40th Anniversary edition of The Sound of Music...but I did buy the 35th Anniversary whose track listing seems to be very similar. Then, as now, BMG seems to have entirely missed the point (although it was good - at last - to have the extended "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" and other extended tracks).

Why on earth can't BMG manage to integrate these extended versions into the main body of the soundtrack recording? Others have done it: look at the excellent work that Rhino have done with their MGM back-catalogue and (as pointed out by other reveiwers) the earlier R&H soundtracks from Angel.

Fans of the "Holywood" Musical Comedy want something that is a true momento of the movie experience and now that CDs have lifted the restrictions on playing times, that is what we expect (...and, indeed are being given by other companies). ...and that should include play-in, entr'acte and exit music.

So, if I were allowed to award stars for the performances on this CD it would be 5*. But no stars for BMG who have missed another opportunity and make me suspicious of cynical and thoughtless marketing. The good news is that they appear to be pursuing a policy of issuing "Collectors' Editions" every five years and so maybe they will do the decent thing next time.

And, while I'm in the mood, the "South Pacific" soundtrack is the only one of the "Big 5" R&H that has had no makeover, so to speak. No guesses as to who publishes that one!

Nothing new!
Unfortunately, this album is disappointing. I hoped and looked forward to the "extras" only to be completely let down.
Track 19, the "extended" version of "16 going on seventeen" is shorter than the original, and is not sung by Liesl and Maria as stated on the cover, it's just the same as track 6, but track 6 is longer!

Very disappointing, shame on you Sony/BMG!!