2001: A Space Odyssey (soundtrack) Like North's score, Cordell's work was recorded at the now demolished Anvil, Denham studios. "2001" is particularly remembered for using pieces of Johann Strauss II's best-known waltz, "The Blue Danube", during the extended space-station docking and Lunar landing sequences. This is the result of the association that Kubrick made between the spinning motion of the satellites and the dancers of waltzes. It also makes use of the opening from the Richard Strauss tone poem "Also sprach Zarathustra" performed by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan. The use of Strauss's "Zarathustra" may be a reference to the theme of
How to Marry a Millionaire (soundtrack) chronicles the background of the piece. The music soundtrack from "How to Marry a Millionaire" was first released on CD by Film Score Monthly, as part of Film Score Monthly's series "Golden Age Classics", on March 15, 2001, as a limited edition of 3,000 copies, and then it was re-release on January 4, 2005. The album includes musical direction by Alfred Newman and incidental music by Cyril Mockridge, and was produced by Film Score Monthly's editor-in-chief and executive producer Lukas Kendall alongside producer/director Nick Redman. The CD of "How to Marry a Millionaire" features the complete music recorded for the