2001: A Space Odyssey (film) had earlier chosen as temporary music for the film. North did not learn that his score had been abandoned until he saw the film's premiere. The initial MGM soundtrack album release contained none of the material from the altered and uncredited rendition of Ligeti's "Aventures", used a different recording of "Also sprach Zarathustra" (performed by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Karl Böhm) from that heard in the film, and a longer excerpt of "Lux aeterna" than that in the film. In 1996, Turner Entertainment/Rhino Records released a new soundtrack on CD that included the material from "Aventures" and restored the
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