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Varèse Sarabande is an American record label that is owned by Concord Music, which specializes in film scores and original cast recordings.

VC/VX series (1978)

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Starting in 1978, Varèse Sarabande released both classical works and motion picture soundtracks on vinyl (LP) using the same label numbering series (VC or VX being the prefix). Some of these titles would later see a CD release in the 47000 series or later by the label or be reissued by other soundtrack labels including Intrada Records, Kritzerland Records, Citadel Records and more.[1][2]

STV and CTV series (1979–1987)

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Beginning in 1979, Varèse Sarabande changed their TV and soundtracks to their own individual lettering prefix with the letters STV to separate them from their classical releases and avoid confusion. Many of these titles originally issued by the label have seen a CD release (refer to the 47000 series and the CD Club release lists below) by the label itself or through other labels over the last few decades which include Intrada Records, Citadel Records, Kritzerland Records and more.

CD and LP pressings were both made for most titles between 1984 and 1990 when LPs started to be on the way out in favor of the new media-friendly CD format that would hold more music (unlike LPs which only run up to 45 minutes). Many of these titles were also available in cassette form, designated by CTV prefix, unlike the CD and LP prefixes to distinguish the three formats. The label would make a deal with MCA Distributing in 1987 as part of a feverish raid by record companies to buy up other smaller, independent record labels thanks to the booming economy of that period when the stock market was high that also included labels like A&M Records, Island, and eventually, GRP Records in later years.[3] The label would completely thrive and grow to great lengths after the MCA deal and would enjoy a lot of success with the soundtracks and eventually Broadway divisions throughout the 1990s and well into 2020.

Georges Delerue's A Little Romance, would go on to win the 1979 Best Original Score at the 1980 Oscar ceremony thanks to a very aggressive campaign by the label and the advice of future producer Bruce Kimmel, in which LPs of the soundtracks were sent to the Academy voters that year earning them a unique honor in the process.

704/1000 digital LP series (1979–1988)

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Starting in the late 1970s, the label wanted to distinguish its digital LP releases from their standard edition LPs featuring a unique codex starting with either 1000 or 704 for their later issues. Most of these applied to their earlier classical releases but the label then tried to focus on their digital soundtrack recordings which were becoming standard during the mid-1980s. This series did not last until mid-1988 when the label officially joined MCA to distribute and release their soundtracks and future Broadway, jazz and vocal albums.

Also amongst this series was the DBX Recording Technology Showcase Series,[12][13] which was the label's attempt in conjunction with the new technology of LPs played on a specialized no noise system making the music louder sonically with the dbx encoded LPs. Chalfont, Varèse's LP offshoot was amongst the group of record labels involved along with themselves personally. Their forte into this technology produced the album, Beyond the Sound Barrier: The Spectacular Sound of Digital DBX Discs, a compilation of digitally recorded tracks from the albums Digital Space by Morton Gould and Boy With Goldfish and Lazarus and His Beloved (Symphonic Suite from the Opera) by Lee Holdridge.

The soundtrack titles also corresponded in sequence to their CD releases also starting with the identical number or a different number than previously assigned. which were very scarce in production, unlike the LPs which were more widely available. However, a few of these LPs did not have a CD counterpart and some were cancelled, possibly due to the poor performances of the film theatrically. Examples of these are Bad Dreams and Dead Heat in which CD counterparts were announced and then cancelled just relegating them to LP and cassette releases only. Since these vinyl albums were not released with a suffix (i.e. STV, VSD, etc.) unlike the original classical releases (VCDM), VCDM has been added to avoid confusion between the 704 series CD as Varèse Sarabande Digital LP.

5200 LP series (1988–1991)

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After the label completed its deal with MCA Distributing, they continued to produce LPs of their soundtracks despite the fact that sales of vinyl were plummeting due to the successful emergence of the CD format which allowed for a more sonic experience as well as putting more music on a CD.

The label reassigned the number of their LPs to try and match their CD counterparts under the prefix of VSD (Varèse Sarabande Disc). The LPs were simply assigned VS and followed by the catalog number. All LPs featured the exact same artwork as the CDs as well as musical content. However, not all of the CD releases had an LP counterpart which was largely due to reissues from other record labels such as Arista Records, MCA, Sony and others which were not produced by the label. Their releases concentrated on everything they produced and released which included hit films such as Die Hard 2, Total Recall, Back to the Future Part III, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Ghost, which is one of the label's all-time best selling albums.

The final LPs produced by the label were in late 1991 when the label switched strictly to CDs and cassettes only. The thrilling action score, Ricochet composed by Academy Award nominee Alan Silvestri and featuring the hit title song by famed rapper Ice-T, was the final LP release on the label.

47000 series (1983–1987)

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Varèse Sarabande first began producing compact discs roughly around 1983, almost at the very beginning of the dawn of the compact disc, which also included labels such as GRP Records, Telarc, Mobile Fidelity and Polydor. Their initial releases in this series are often held in high regard by collectors, especially those without a barcode which all discs were printed and produced in Japan by the Japan Victor Company (JVC).[14] These discs feature exceptional sound quality and in particular, the classical releases feature exceptional artwork which have made these titles extremely valuable.[15][16] The first few years saw their first run of CDs pressed in Japan for US market by JVC beginning with 47201 which is the best selling Star Wars Trilogy CD until 47275 with Peggy Sue Got Married and then the label switched over to Laser Video for its releases starting with Tai-Pan (VCD-47274) in late 1986 until its final distributed release for that company with No Way Out (VCD-47301) in 1987.[17] After that, the label's releases were exclusively pressed by JVC America.[18]

This series was supervised and started by Tom Null, who supervised the classical releases along with the soundtracks with co-producer Chris Kuchler. Richard Kraft came on board around 1986 and co-ran the label with Null until the end of 1988 to ease the label's transition after they reached a deal with MCA Distributing in 1987, which didn't take full effect until mid-1988.[3] Null would remain with the label until 1993 where he would eventually reactivate Citadel Records, formerly a subsidiary of the label for a period of time, and reissued many of Varèse's LP and out of print Varèse CDs.[19] Under new producer Robert Townson, who had released three titles during this period which included his first ever release as producer, The Final Conflict in 1986 under his label, Masters Film Music from Canada along with Lionheart, a little-seen adventure film which was released by the label in two separate volumes of music in 1987. Townson would take over and oversee the label in early 1989 after Kraft's departure.

This series was notorious for many catalog number gaps especially during late 1986 and the entirety of 1987, which many speculate were titles that were released as LP and cassette during this period. One such title, King Kong Lives was actually produced by the label but acquired by MCA Records in late 1986 as the film was figured to be a big holiday release late that year and was released through them instead.[20] Some titles that were released theatrically during this period, did receive a CD counterpart to go along with the LP and cassette formats (i.e. Aliens, The Fly, Link, Enemy Mine, etc.) and others that were either slated to be released as a CD and were cancelled would be reissued later on by the label through the Varèse Sarabande Club or in some cases as part of the regular catalog (i.e. Vamp, Firewalker, 52 Pick-Up,[21] F/X, etc.).

Townson with the help of Kraft and Null would go on to start a Limited Edition Club of mail order only releases that would finally come to fruition during the spring of 1989 after being promoted in late 1987 and throughout 1988 after long delays.[22] The club was intended for titles for new or older scores for past films that were released that did not receive a soundtrack release or a score album while the film was released theatrically and would later include many titles from the many gaps in their CD discography decades later. Townson's label, Masters Film Music, would get the first releases which included reissues which consisted of Obsession, Bernard Herrmann Concert Suites an elaborate four-disc reissue set of the original Decca LPs featuring stunning artwork and was a full-fledged production and Jerry Goldsmith Suites and Themes, the first live concert performance on CD by the famed Oscar winning composer which also featured equally stunning artwork as the other releases by the late Bob Peak. The official club titles started by Kraft and Null would soon be released not long after with Cherry 2000[23] by the late Basil Poledouris, which at one point was the most valuable soundtrack on the market, going for as much as $2500 at a hotly contested auction. Null would leave Varèse in 1993 and start his own label Citadel Records and reissued a lot of Varèse's older out-of-print soundtrack LPs, as well as some of the classical releases he released during his time with the label. Also during this period, Varese reached an agreement with Columbia House under the Columbia Record Club to release a handful classical releases that included Scheherazade, The Four Seasons and Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 amongst others. The album covers had different color fonts and on the back insert and CD had the Columbia Record Club moniker "CRC" on it to distinguish itself from the original Varese produced editions.

The Star Wars Trilogy, The Man from Snowy River, Halloween and Witness are amongst the label's all-time top ten best selling releases[24] from this period along with other titles such as The Emerald Forest, Escape from New York, Aliens, The Fly, The Right Stuff/North and South, Pee-wee's Big Adventure / Back to School, Starman and The Road Warrior. Many of these titles stayed in print for at least two decades or more and others quickly went out of print.

The very last title produced by the label for this run, The Serpent and the Rainbow (VCD-47362) was one of the rarest titles in this series due to its low print run of an estimated 400 copies. This title was probably caught under the label's transition with MCA Distributing and was barely released throughout the country. For this reason, this title was very valuable for a long period of time and was recently reissued as part of Varèse's Little Box of Horrors 12-CD collection in 2016 in an LP replica styled slipcase featuring the same artwork as the original CD. This also goes for the label's strange handling of reissues of Phantasm, Liquid Sky and Dawn of the Dead which also were supposed to be released during or after the MCA transition and received very limited runs and also became collectors items as a result of this.

70400 series (1988)

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This batch of a dozen titles between the 47000 series and the new mainline series starting from 5200 to 7500 series which started right after this after Varèse's newly minted distribution deal with MCA (aka UNI later on Universal Music Group (UMG)) in late 1987 which the label finally instituted a barcode system which included this series of titles which had a limited press run of over 500 copies or more during the label's transition with MCA into their distribution cycle. This numbering system stems from their digital LP series of titles featuring a few soundtracks (i.e. Suspect) and also could be seen as 470 rearranged as 704. These titles featured specific lettering and package design not unlike the 47000 series and this lettering and package design would run until the first batch of the 5200 series, which would later reinstitute the font lettering they used during the 47000 series permanently until 1999.

This series features a few cancellations including one rumored title of Dead Heat by Ernest Troost and one confirmed but announced title, Bad Dreams[29] in which collectors were willing to pay top prices for until the label revealed and confirmed its cancellation when they finally released it on CD as part of their LP to CD Subscription Series that ran from June 2015 to May 2016.[30]

5200–7500 series (1988–2018)

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When Varèse Sarabande began its partnership with MCA Distribution in 1988, the benefits of this deal were nationwide availability of Varèse Sarabande CDs, LPs and cassettes. The label adopted the MCA catalog numbering system with the prefix VSD (which stood for Varèse Sarabande Disc and VSC for Varèse Sarabande cassette) and a subsequent number to denote multiple-disc sets (VSD2, VSD3, etc.) or a video release (VSV) if any as that was required for all labels in the MCA distribution system. When the MCA and PolyGram families merged in 1999, which created Universal Music, the newly merged company used PolyGram's catalog-numbering system, which used the main six digits of the UPC barcode (numbers 5 through 10 in the standard 12-number UPC set) as the basis for the catalog number and since the original MCA numbering was already based on part of the UPC number (specifically digits 7 through 10), the number sequence was not changed. This run starting from VSD-5200 ended during the 7500 series as Concord Records assumed control of the company during the middle of 2018 and started a new numbering system as a result. Catalogue numbers without a title are usually assigned to a release that is not ready to be officially announced by the label. In some cases, older unassigned numbers are the result of a production delay, but usually it is because they have been canceled. For collectors, the curiosity of knowing what a number has been assigned to is part of the demand for a complete discography.

Also as Varèse Sarabande grew, it branched into other musical venues and imprints including Varèse Spotlight, which focused on original cast recordings;[31] Varèse Jazz,[32] which focused on jazz interpretations featuring the Trotter Trio and others; Varèse Vintage, which re-issued all genres of oldies;[33] Water Music, which specialized in electronica; Fuel 2000, which focused on popular music;[34] and Wildcat, which focused on rock recordings. All divisions share the same catalog numbering system, but only the Varèse Sarabande, Spotlight, and Vintage imprints share the same number sequence. There have also been some soundtracks released as digital download titles that are not currently on CD at the moment.

Colosseum Records, which is featured here as well on this listing, was the label's international division located in Nuremberg, Germany, which released all US soundtrack releases as well as European films that were able to release under their banner. Like the US versions of these soundtracks, the German pressings featured the same artwork, but instead of the black JVC design on the label side, they feature a silver label side with the JVC design in red. The artwork also featured "LC" which stood for a Colosseum version. The label released titles that were only available through imports that were not released here and many of those titles featured numbers to what were cancelled releases to movies here in the US. (i.e. John Carpenter's Greatest Hits VSD-5336 / Dutch VSD-5336 US, Evil Dead VSD-5362 / Rock-a-Doodle VSD-5362 US). They also released titles for US films that did not receive a US equivalent which included Dust Devil by Simon Boswell, The Evil Dead by Joseph LoDuca, Goodbye Bafana by Dario Marianelli and a few more. They also kept in print many of the out of print 47000 and 70400 series titles for a long period of time which included D.O.A., Poltergeist III, Cocoon: The Return, John Carpenter's The Fog, The Thief of Baghdad / The Jungle Book, and Lionheart: Volumes 1 & 2. The label would later close in 2015 and Varèse does not have a European distributor at the moment.[35]

Robert Townson, who produced his first title which was The Final Conflict aka Omen III under his Masters Film Music label in conjunction with the label in 1986, took over in early 1989 and oversaw the label's growth into one of the greatest soundtrack labels in the world with a yearly output of approximately 50 titles from newly released films, restorations and reissues from other labels which started with reissues of Sony LP titles (i.e. The Chase, The Lion in Winter, The Guns of Navarone, etc.) in 1989, then reissuing many titles from the MCA catalog (i.e. MacArthur, Ghost Story, Dracula, etc.) starting in 1990 which lasted until 2001 along with Arista Records (i.e. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Taxi Driver, The Fury, etc.), the Decca catalog (i.e. The Robe, Airport, Anastasia, etc.), Bay Cities in 1997 (i.e. 1941, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, etc.) and reissues from their LP catalog that appeared as regular releases (i.e. Lifeforce, The Manhattan Project, Videodrome, etc.) and as Soundtrack Club releases (i.e. F/X: The Deluxe Edition, Eye of the Needle, Last Embrace, Vamp, Silver Bullet, etc.). He also created a re-recording program which brought new audiences to older soundtrack recordings from composers who he had worked with personally on the label which included John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Alan Silvestri, Stu Phillips and James Horner (i.e. Midway, Body Heat, To Kill a Mockingbird, Patton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, etc.) as well as produce new and complete re-recording of scores by Golden Age composers such as Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman and Miklós Rózsa (i.e. Psycho, Vertigo, Sunset Boulevard, etc.). The first and, more importantly, his first re-recording of a film score was a historic event in that it was for Alex North's rejected score for Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey which the famed director completely threw out. Conducting the event was North's best friend and Oscar-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith with his favorite orchestra, the National Philharmonic of London with North's wife, Abby present during the recording. Before this event took place, no one outside of North or Goldsmith had heard this seemingly lost score until North's passing in late 1991 and this project came to light. His most important release was Spartacus by his favorite composer Alex North whom he was finally able to release his epic score (his personal all-time favorite) in 2010 to commemorate the film's 50th anniversary with an elaborate six-CD set. Coming in a close second and surprisingly one of the best-selling soundtracks of all-time in 1990 was the Oscar winning film, Ghost, which featured a score by Oscar winner Maurice Jarre and more importantly, the hit song "Unchained Melody" sung by the Righteous Brothers which Alex North co-wrote and was featured in North's full orchestral composition in the film. The album sold over one million copies.[24] Townson left the label in late 2018 after Concord Music bought the label to concentrate on live concerts throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Bruce Kimmel, who was asked to be a part of the label[36] when it started in 1978 which was intended to be solely for classical music and reissues of older Golden Age soundtracks that were really successful, released two soundtracks to films he had personally worked on The First Nudie Musical and Stages, joined the label in 1993 after a successful run at the then defunct Bay Cities soundtrack label and much like Robert Townson for soundtracks, he was given the full responsibility of the Broadway Musical, Spotlight and Jazz imprints of the label. These divisions were dedicated to releasing or reissuing soundtracks to musicals that were performing on and off Broadway, which was a huge success for the label throughout the 1990s as they dominated the marketplace with stellar releases with many being best sellers and featured favorable reviews. Kimmel also showcased performers from these shows on the Varèse Spotlight[31] banner which included the late Michelle Nicastro, Christiane Noll, Judy Kaye, Paige O'Hara, Mary Cleere Haran, Liz Callaway and many others. Kimmel also produced a few compilations dedicated to film music as well such as the Ennio Morricone jazz ensemble album Once Upon a Time in Cinema, Toonful and its sequel, Toonful Too dedicated to popular Disney songs performed by Nicastro, and also dedicated himself to jazz as well with the label's Varèse Jazz imprint that featured wonderful recordings by the Terry Trotter Trio producing albums inspired by movies, artists and Broadway shows by Stephen Sondheim. These include The Star Wars Album, The Michel Legrand Album, Follies, Passion... in Jazz and many others. He also produced two of accomplished jazz pianist Fred Hersch's albums for the label I Never Told You: Fred Hersch Plays the Music of Johnny Mandel and a popular collaboration between Hersch and jazz singer Janis Siegel entitled Slow Hot Wind. Sadly, his divisions were closed down by 2001 by the label as the company was no longer interested in producing or releasing Broadway or jazz releases at that point in time. He would leave to work with Fynsworth Alley, a label dedicated to Broadway and off-Broadway theater shows as well as vocals just as they had been doing at Varèse Sarabande in 2000, which ended abruptly in late 2001 as he and the label had completely different visions.[37] Kimmel would later form his own label, Kritzerland Records which is dedicated to movie soundtracks, musicals and some jazz albums in the late 2000s.[38]

The biggest curiosity of this series is the aborted release of the score album to that 1993 Bound By Honor which was originally titled Blood In Blood Out. This soundtrack which was publicly announced at the time of the films' release, and abruptly cancelled because of Disney's last-minute decision to change the films' title due to a test screening that led to violence along with the turmoil going on in Los Angeles at time. The label was about part way through the run (an unspecified number of these CDs were produced) when the change was made. Proving it would be too costly to reprint and produce another run of CDs under the films' new title, the CD was never officially released despite its announcements in the film, the film's advertising and subsequent video releases along with the song laden soundtrack album released by Hollywood Records at the same time. This was an officially produced album that was never released but a number of copies of it have surfaced around Hollywood insiders and throughout the soundtrack community and has been dubbed The Caine Mutiny of soundtrack CDs due to its rarity. This title has recently appeared on eBay as a counterfeit (bootleg) which features the same contents. However, the disc itself was not officially pressed by JVC America as the official Varese release and the inner ring features more silver in the center which is not on the original JVC pressing. The artwork is a color copy of the original with the exception of the lettering on the bottom in reference to the VSD-5396 catalog number which the font is incorrect on the booklet and it also omits liner notes by the films' writer Jimmy Santiago Baca and the films' director Taylor Hackford which is featured inside the booklet. The original release also featured a butterfly silver foiled holographic sticker on the jewel case like all Varese Sarabande titles as well as all Universal Music Group distributed titles during this period of time.[39][40]

The very last "official" title released under the old Varese numerical system that had started in mid to late 1988 was Jeff Beal's score to the Rob Reiner film "Shock And Awe".

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The New VSD Series (2018–present)

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The label was acquired by Concord Music in 2018 and abandoned the PolyGram/Universal numbering system. A new series was started as a result of Concord's UPC prefix. The rest of the UPC does not necessarily match the catalogue number of the release, and all have the VSD prefix regardless of which format it was released on. All LP versions released have not been included and should be in a separate section. This list concentrates on the CD portion and not digital releases.

Varèse Sarabande CD Club (1989–1992)

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In the aftermath of Varèse Sarabande's new association with the MCA Distribution Corp., the long advertised CD Club finally debuted in March 1989 as mail order exclusives after a series of production problems. Those who mailed contact information to the label, as advertised in many Varèse Sarabande CD inlay cards, received a yearly flyer announcing the limited edition discs. This first incarnation of the club ran from 1989 to 1992 and clearly took advantage of the MCA partnership as several of the titles came directly from their vault. This was also helped Varèse Sarabande to reissue scores from older films as well as release soundtracks to theatrical releases that were not successful or a soundtrack was unavailable at that time for release. They were also able to release particular titles from their own LP catalog that were not available as regular mainstream releases at that point in time for logistical reasons. All releases were hand numbered and limited to runs of 1000, 1200, 1500 or 2500 and sold for $19.98 each. The assigned catalog numbers correspond to the month and year of release with the volume number following the decimal. All first-generation club titles were produced by Robert Townson and Tom Null.[22]

In their mail order flyer, the original group of composers that were slated to appear in the original series of club releases included Jerry Goldsmith, Alex North, James Horner, Bill Conti, Georges Delerue, Miklos Rosza, Elmer Bernstein and Basil Poledouris amongst others. The label did release soundtracks by these composers and sometimes, more than one at time. However, Conti's and Delerue's titles, without any definitive explanation, were never released at that time and it is assumed that the Conti title may possibly have been The Karate Kid[57][58] and the Delerue title may have been Joe Versus the Volcano.[59][60] Both titles were eventually released as part of the reactivated version of the club after 2001.

For a long time, Cherry 2000 was the most sought after title along with the withdrawn Blood In Blood Out cancelled release in which at an auction that took place in late 1997, two overzealous bidders got into a heated bidding war for this title at an auction with the winner winning the CD for the amount of $2500 which is still the most that a CD has ever gone for. This title has been reissued several times since that auction and greatly expanded.[61][62][63]

Two special budget releases appeared in 1992 for the final club year with the following two albums selling for the midline price of $10.98 apiece more as an experiment to see if titles from the club would sell at this price. These sold out instantly and were the last of this batch of the club ever to be featured at this price point. Later on Jagged Edge would be reissued as a part of the relaunched club under the Varèse Encore banner with new artwork and at the price of $15.98 which also sold out at the same 1000 copy run of its original release from 1992.

Varèse Sarabande CD Club (2001–present)

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After an over nine-year hiatus, the Varèse Club officially returned after it was announced in 1998 by the label with no progress being made for almost three years until it was reactivated in November 2001, thanks to a change in re-use fee policies involving the American Federation of Musicians (AFM),[64] more cooperative studio licensing and the internet boom of the late 1990s that helped with sales for all the record labels. The reactivation was in light of Film Score Monthly's success in marketing limited edition scores from the archives of major studios that started with Twentieth Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and expanding to Warner Bros., Turner Entertainment, Paramount Pictures and more recently, Universal Pictures that has finally opened their vaults. Other labels such as Intrada Records, Percepto Records, Citadel Records and Prometheus Records also began their own limited edition series starting in 1999, which put Varèse in a very strong position to make good on their 1998 announcement.[22]

This time, the club would release titles at a quarterly interval with as many as four releases per batch and as low as one (i.e. Spartacus: Deluxe Edition, The List of Adrian Messenger). Their record for an announced batch is six titles which happened in December 2013. Unlike the original series, this version of the club also featured more box sets (i.e. Jerry Goldsmith at Fox, Bernard Herrmann at Fox, The Karate Kid, North and South, etc.), deluxe editions of previously released catalog titles greatly expanded from their commercial releases, live concert recordings that were featured in a CD/DVD hybrid (i.e. Alien: A Biomechanical Symphony, Fimucité Closing Night Gala) and a celebration set dedicated to the films of 1985 called At the Movies 1985 which came in a gatefold LP styled packaging featuring six CDs in LP reproduction slipcases. A new numbering system was devised consisting of the month then year followed by the limited edition number of copies.[22] The label has since reduced their output of club releases that had started with four then lowering it two or three titles at a time and three batches per year instead of four which they had done as recently as 2013.

This series also featured a popular staple to the club called the Encore Series, which were reissues of out-of-print catalog titles from the label's very beginning. This part of the club gave fans the opportunity to acquire these long out-of-print titles which also included some original Varèse Sarabande Club titles from the original series at the price of $15.98 with the run limited to 1000 copies only. Amongst the titles that were reissued they included Jagged Edge, Vibes, Eye of the Needle, The Boy Who Could Fly and the very last produced encore title, Raggedy Man by Jerry Goldsmith which was amongst the final releases by producer Robert Townson for the label.[65]

The first three releases of the reactivated club announced in November 2001 were Heartbeeps by John Williams (which was originally intended to be a part of the original club as part of the Masters Film Music Series), Project X by the late James Horner and a reissue of one of the LP catalog releases of Marie Ward [de] by Elmer Bernstein.[66]

  • VCL 1101-1001 Heartbeeps - John Williams
  • VCL 1101-1002 Project X - James Horner
  • VCL 1101-1003 Marie Ward [de] - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0202-1004 Die Hard - Michael Kamen
  • VCL 0202-1005 The Long, Hot Summer / Sanctuary - Alex North
  • VCL 0202-1006 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Alfred Newman
  • VCL 0502-1007 The Ballad of Cable Hogue - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0502-1008 Cast a Giant Shadow - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0502-1009 The Virgin Queen - Franz Waxman
  • VCL 0702-1010 The Sand Pebbles: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0702-1011 The Fury: The Deluxe Edition - John Williams
  • VCL 0702-1012 Romancing the Stone - Alan Silvestri
  • VCL 0702-1013 The Bride - Maurice Jarre
  • VCL 1102-1014 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York: The Deluxe Edition - John Williams
  • VCL 1102-1015 Big - Howard Shore
  • VCL 1102-1016 Studs Lonigan - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0403-1017 Hawaii: The Deluxe Edition - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0403-1018 Magic - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0403-1019 Beloved Infidel - Franz Waxman
  • VCL 0403-1020 The Return of a Man Called Horse: The Deluxe Edition - Laurence Rosenthal
  • VCL 0703-1021 Varèse Sarabande 25th Anniversary Collection: Volume Two - various artists (This four-disc set was the follow-up to the regular commercial release commemorating the label's 25th anniversary featuring more music from their vast soundtrack library and was only sold through the website as an unnumbered limited edition that only lasted until the end of 2003. It would be brought back years later for the 30th anniversary also an unnumbered limited edition for a short time in 2008 again lasting until the end of that year)
  • VCL 0803-1022 Predator - Alan Silvestri
  • VCL 0803-1023 Justine: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0803-1024 The Story of Ruth - Franz Waxman
  • VCL 1103-1025 The Robe: The Deluxe Edition - Alfred Newman
  • VCL 1103-1026 Commando - James Horner
  • VCL 1103-1027 The Island - Ennio Morricone
  • VCL 0204-1028 Jerry Goldsmith at 20th Century Fox - Jerry Goldsmith (Limited edition six-disc box set commemorating Goldsmith's period at the famed movie studio featuring previously released music and unreleased music)
  • VCL 0804-1029 The Great Escape: The Deluxe Edition - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0804-1030 Fitzwilly / The Long Goodbye - John Williams (Featured the Dave Grusin Trio performing Williams' themes for the score along with Jack Sheldon and others)
  • VCL 0804-1031 Piranha - Pino Donaggio
  • VCL 1104-1032 The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Deluxe Edition - Alex North / The Artist Who Did Not Want to Paint - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 1104-1033 Three Coins in the Fountain - Victor Young
  • VCL 1104-1034 Sheena - Richard Hartley
  • VCL 0505-1035 Alien Nation (rejected score) - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0505-1036 Désirée - Alex North
  • VCL 0505-1037 Making the Grade - Basil Poledouris / various artists
  • VCL 0805-1038 Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0805-1039 F.I.S.T. / Slow Dancing in the Big City - Bill Conti
  • VCL 0805-1040 True Confessions - Georges Delerue
  • VCL 0805-1041 The Kindred - David Newman
  • VCL 1105-1042 Broadcast News - Bill Conti / Michael Gore, Michel Camilo* (*additional music)
  • VCL 1105-1043 The Scalphunters - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 1105-1044 The Left Hand of God - Victor Young
  • VCL 1105-1045 Top Secret! - Maurice Jarre
  • VCL 0306-1046 Ghostbusters - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0306-1047 Rookie of the Year / A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon / Bushwhacked - Bill Conti
  • VCL 0306-1048 Return to Peyton Place - Franz Waxman
  • VCL 0306-1049 An Almost Perfect Affair - Georges Delerue
  • VCL 0706-1050 Gloria - Bill Conti
  • VCL 0706-1051 The War of the Roses / The Sandlot - David Newman
  • VCL 0706-1052 An Unfinished Life (rejected score) / 14 Unfinished Lives for Solo Piano - Christopher Young (Unused score composed by Young for the 2005 film of the same name. Also features a piano suite of themes used and unused for the film in fourteen movements performed on solo piano)
  • VCL 0706-1053 Sky Bandits - Alfi Kabiljo
  • VCL 1106-1054 Birdman of Alcatraz - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 1106-1055 Runaway: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 1106-1056 Lucas - Dave Grusin
  • VCL 1106-1057 Seven Cities of Gold / The Rains of Ranchipur - Hugo Friedhofer
  • VCL 1106-1058 Careful, He Might Hear You - Ray Cook
  • VCL 0307-1059 The Karate Kid Box (The Karate Kid / The Karate Kid Part II / The Karate Kid Part III / The Next Karate Kid) - Bill Conti (Premiere release of all four score from the Karate Kid films in an elaborate box which would be reissued as individual titles by the label with the exception of The Next Karate Kid. The first three scores have also been reissued and remastered by La-La Land Records)
  • VCL 0307-1060 The Vanishing - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0307-1061 Author! Author! - Dave Grusin / Author! Author! (rejected score) - Johnny Mandel (CD features both the replacement score by Grusin used in the 1982 film as well as the unused score by Mandel for the film that was based on The Four Seasons)
  • VCL 0307-1062 84 Charing Cross Road - George Fenton
  • VCL 0707-1063 The 'Burbs: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0707-1064 F/X: The Deluxe Edition - Bill Conti
  • VCL 0707-1065 Les Misérables - Alex North
  • VCL 0707-1066 Anne of the Indies / Man on a Tightrope - Franz Waxman
  • VCL 1107-1067 North by Northwest - Bernard Herrmann / Joel McNeely conducts (re-recording)
  • VCL 1107-1068 Neighbors - Bill Conti / Neighbors (1981) (rejected score) - Tom Scott (CD features both the replacement score by Conti used in the 1981 film as well as the rejected score by jazz saxophonist Tom Scott which was in a suspenseful mode)
  • VCL 1107-1069 By Love Possessed - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 1107-1070 The Tall Men - Victor Young
  • VCL 1107-1071 Magic Fire - Richard Wagner / Erich Wolfgang Korngold, arranger and conductor
  • VCL 0208-1072 North and South - Bill Conti (Elaborate four-disc set containing almost five hours of music of the ten composed for landmark 1985 ABC mini-series which comes housed in a blue colored slipcase)
  • VCL 0208-1073 The Caretakers / The Young Doctors - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0208-1074 Viva Zapata! / The 13th Letter - Alex North
  • VCL 0208-1075 Matilda - David Newman
  • VCL 0608-1076 Gangs of New York / The Journey of Natty Gann / The Scarlet Letter (rejected scores box set) - Elmer Bernstein (Elaborate four-disc box set containing rejected scores composed by Bernstein for these films making their debut)
  • VCL 0608-1077 Iron Eagle - Basil Poledouris
  • VCL 0608-1078 My Cousin Rachel - Franz Waxman
  • VCL 0608-1079 The Man Who Loved Women - Henry Mancini
  • VCL 0608-1080 In a Shallow Grave - Jonathan Sheffer
  • VCL 0908-1081 The Matrix: The Deluxe Edition - Don Davis
  • VCL 0908-1082 North and South: Book II - Bill Conti (Elaborate four-disc set containing almost four hours of music for the 1994 sequel to the landmark 1985 ABC mini-series which is housed in a red colored slipcase)
  • VCL 0908-1083 Anna Lucasta - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0908-1084 Pony Soldier - Alex North
  • VCL 0908-1085 Vamp - Jonathan Elias
  • VCL 1108-1086 Short Circuit - David Shire
  • VCL 1108-1087 Report to the Commissioner - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 1108-1088 The President's Lady - Alfred Newman
  • VCL 1108-1089 Silver Bullet - Jay Chattaway
  • VCL 0309-1090 Hanover Street - John Barry
  • VCL 0309-1091 Nightwing - Henry Mancini
  • VCL 0309-1092 Lure of the Wilderness - Franz Waxman
  • VCL 0309-1093 Russkies - James Newton Howard
  • VCL 0609-1094 Lonely Are the Brave - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0609-1095 The Right Stuff - Bill Conti
  • VCL 0609-1096 Norma Rae - David Shire
  • VCL 0609-1097 Hard Contract - Alex North
  • VCL 0909-1098 Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0909-1099 Crime in the Streets - Franz Waxman
  • VCL 0909-1100 A Walk in the Spring Rain - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0909-1101 Children of the Corn - Jonathan Elias
  • VCL 1209-1102 Freud: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 1209-1103 Bird of Paradise - Daniele Amfitheatrof / Lydia Bailey - Hugo Friedhofer
  • VCL 0310-1104 The Goonies - Dave Grusin
  • VCL 0310-1105 The Spiral Road - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0310-1106 The Scout / Dreamer - Bill Conti
  • VCL 0310-1107 The Manhattan Project - Philippe Sarde
  • VCL 0410-1108 Star Trek: The Deluxe Edition - Michael Giacchino (Expanded two-disc release of the popular 2009 edition in an oversized digibook with booklet)
  • VCL 0610-1109 Spartacus - Alex North (Elaborate six-disc set and a DVD of interviews with composers such as John Williams, Christopher Young and others as well as a detailed booklet and comes housed in a slipcase hard box with original artwork which was a limited edition of 5000 copies to commemorate the film's 50th anniversary)
  • VCL 0910-1110 A Gathering of Eagles - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0910-1111 The Snake Pit - Alfred Newman / The Three Faces of Eve - Robert E. Dolan
  • VCL 0910-1112 The Formula - Bill Conti
  • VCL 0910-1113 Fimucité 2: Closing Night Gala 2008 (DVD & CD) - Diego Navarro and Joel McNeely, conductors
  • VCL 0910-1114 Nightflyers - Doug Timm (Release dedicated to the late composer)
  • VCL 1110-1115 Family Plot - John Williams
  • VCL 1110-1116 Taps - Maurice Jarre
  • VCL 1110-1117 The Karate Kid - Bill Conti
  • VCL 1110-1118 Home Movies - Pino Donaggio
  • VCL 0511-1119 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Volume One - Bernard Herrmann
  • VCL 0511-1120 Scream: The Deluxe Edition - Marco Beltrami
  • VCL 0511-1121 My Demon Lover - David Newman / Ed Alton (additional music)
  • VCL 0511-1122 Fimucité 3: Jerry Goldsmith 80th Birthday Tribute Concert (DVD & CD) - Mark Snow & Diego Navarro, conductors
  • VCL 0711-1123 The Egyptian: The Deluxe Edition - Alfred Newman & Bernard Herrmann
  • VCL 1011-1124 Midway - John Williams
  • VCL 1011-1125 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Volume Two - Bernard Herrmann
  • VCL 1011-1126 Mimic: The Deluxe Edition - Marco Beltrami
  • VCL 1011-1127 The Karate Kid Part II - Bill Conti
  • VCL 1211-1128 Bernard Herrmann at 20th Century Fox - Bernard Herrmann (Elaborate fourteen-disc box set featuring all of Herrmann's work at the famed studio in complete form)
  • VCL 0512-1129 Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith (Reissue of 1995 Varèse Sarabande release)
  • VCL 0512-1130 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Volume Three - Lyn Murray, Leonard Rosenman, Lalo Schifrin and Benny Carter
  • VCL 0512-1131 The Karate Kid Part III - Bill Conti
  • VCL 0512-1132 Eye of the Needle (Varèse Encore) - Miklós Rózsa
  • VCL 0512-1133 Amazing Grace and Chuck (Varèse Encore) - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0512-1134 The Clan of the Cave Bear (Varèse Encore) - Alan Silvestri
  • VCL 0512-1135 Alien: A Biomechanical Symphony - Fimucité 3 (DVD & CD) - Diego Navarro, conductor
  • VCL 0712-1136 Crimes of the Heart (Varèse Encore) - Georges Delerue
  • VCL 0712-1137 Tai-Pan (Varèse Encore) - Maurice Jarre
  • VCL 1012-1138 Die Hard 2: Die Harder: The Deluxe Edition - Michael Kamen
  • VCL 1012-1139 The Red Pony - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 1012-1140 Enemy Mine: The Deluxe Edition - Maurice Jarre
  • VCL 1012-1141 The Boy Who Could Fly (Varèse Encore) - Bruce Broughton
  • VCL 1012-1142 Man on Fire (Varèse Encore) - John Scott
  • VCL 1213-1143 Star Trek: Nemesis: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 1213-1144 The Abyss: The Deluxe Edition - Alan Silvestri
  • VCL 1213-1145 Brass Target - Laurence Rosenthal
  • VCL 1213-1146 Suspect (Varèse Encore) - Michael Kamen
  • VCL 1213-1147 Vibes (Varèse Encore) - James Horner
  • VCL 1213-1148 Runaway (Varèse Encore) - Jerry Goldsmith (Reissue of Varèse Club deluxe edition featuring same contents as the 2006 release)
  • VCL 0214-1149 The List of Adrian Messenger - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0714-1150 Star Trek Into Darkness: The Deluxe Edition - Michael Giacchino
  • VCL 1114-1151 Predator 2: The Deluxe Edition - Alan Silvestri
  • VCL 1114-1152 Peggy Sue Got Married: The Deluxe Edition - John Barry
  • VCL 1114-1153 For Whom the Bell Tolls - Victor Young (Reissue of original Stanyan Records release)
  • VCL 1114-1154 Fedora (Varèse Encore) - Miklós Rózsa (Does not contain The Crisis Guitar Suite from the original Varèse Club release from 1989)
  • VCL 0615-1155 Back in Time ... 1985 at the Movies - David Newman conductor / various artists (Elaborate six-CD set housed in an oversized LP jacket with discs housed in individual cardboard slipcases. Includes The Goonies by Dave Grusin / 1985 at Varèse Sarabande / The Songs / The Back to the Future Trilogy (re-recording) - John Debney, conductor / Out of Africa (re-recording) - Joel McNeely, conductor)
  • VCL 0615-1156 Gremlins 2: The New Batch: 25th Anniversary Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0615-1157 Outbreak: The Deluxe Edition - James Newton Howard
  • VCL 0715-1158 Fimucité 6: Universal Pictures 100th Anniversary Gala - Diego Navarro, conductor
  • VCL 1015-1159 Back to the Future Part III: 25th Anniversary Edition - Alan Silvestri
  • VCL 1015-1160 Chain Reaction: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 1015-1161 Where the River Runs Black (Varèse Encore) - James Horner
  • VCL 1215-1162 North and South: Highlights - Bill Conti (Single disc highlights of music from original four-disc club release)
  • VCL 1215-1163 Spies Like Us (Varèse Encore) - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0216-1164 Executive Decision: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0216-1165 Cocoon: The Return: The Deluxe Edition - James Horner
  • VCL 0216-1166 Bloodline - Ennio Morricone / Craig Hundley (additional music, as Craig Huxley)
  • VCL 0216-1167 The Whales of August (Varèse Encore) - Alan Price
  • VCL 0516-1168 Starship Troopers: The Deluxe Edition - Basil Poledouris
  • VCL 0516-1169 Volcano: The Deluxe Edition - Alan Silvestri
  • VCL 0516-1170 Spartacus: The Complete Album Masters - Alex North (Single disc edition of score in stereo sound that was featured in six-disc Spartacus: 50th Anniversary release. It came with a cardboard slipcase housing the standard jewel case)
  • VCL 0516-1171 Zelly and Me (Varèse Encore) - Pino Donaggio
  • VCL 0916-1172 Hellboy: The Deluxe Edition - Marco Beltrami
  • VCL 0916-1173 RoboCop 3: The Deluxe Edition - Basil Poledouris
  • VCL 0916-1174 Jagged Edge (Varèse Encore) - John Barry
  • VCL 1016-1175 The Omen: 40th Anniversary Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 1016-1176 Scream 2: The Deluxe Edition - Marco Beltrami
  • VCL 1216-1177 Star Trek Beyond: The Deluxe Edition - Michael Giacchino
  • VCL 0317-1178 Stanley & Iris: The Deluxe Edition / Pete 'n' Tillie - John Williams
  • VCL 0317-1179 Under Siege 2: Dark Territory: The Deluxe Edition - Basil Poledouris
  • VCL 0317-1180 The Black Cauldron (Varèse Encore) - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 0618-1184 The Cowboys: The Deluxe Edition - John Williams
  • VCL 0618-1185 Small Soldiers: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0618-1186 Georges Delerue: The Complete London Sessions - Georges Delerue (Condensed two-disc reissue of original three-volume releases from 1990 to 1992 recorded in London that eliminated original soundtrack recordings featured in those volumes)
  • VCL 0618-1187 Heathers (Varèse Encore) - David Newman
  • VCL 1018-1188 Dracula: The Deluxe Edition - John Williams
  • VCL 1018-1189 On Deadly Ground: The Deluxe Edition - Basil Poledouris
  • VCL 1018-1190 A Show of Force (Varèse Encore) - Georges Delerue
  • VCL 0219 1191 RoboCop 2: The Deluxe Edition - Leonard Rosenman
  • VCL 0219-1192 Dreamcatcher: The Deluxe Edition - James Newton Howard (Individual two-disc reissue of score contained in the Stephen King Collection limited edition set contents are identical with no additional music added to this release)
  • VCL 0219-1193 Raggedy Man (Varèse Encore) - Jerry Goldsmith (The last official club release by producer Robert Townson)
  • VCL 0919-1194 Star Trek: The Deluxe Edition - Michael Giacchino (Reissue of 2010 digipak two-disc set, no additional music included)
  • VCL 0919-1195 Air Force One: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith / Joel McNeely
  • VCL 0919-1196 Rooster Cogburn: The Deluxe Edition - Laurence Rosenthal
  • VCL 1115-1197 The Stand: The Deluxe Edition - W. G. Snuffy Walden (Individual two-disc reissue of score contained in the Stephen King Collection limited edition set contents are identical with no additional music added to this release)
  • VCL 1115-1198 U.S. Marshals: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 1115-1199 Dolores Claiborne: The Deluxe Edition - Danny Elfman
  • VCL 0520 1201 The Running Man: The Deluxe Edition - Harold Faltermeyer
  • VCL 0520-1202 SeaQuest DSV: The Deluxe Edition - John Debney
  • VCL 0820-1204 Wild Wild West: The Deluxe Edition - Elmer Bernstein
  • VCL 1020-1205 How to Train Your Dragon: The Deluxe Edition - John Powell
  • VCL 1020-1206 Village of the Damned: The Deluxe Edition - John Carpenter & Dave Davies
  • VCL 1120-1207 Looney Tunes: Back in Action: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith / John Debney & Cameron Patrick (additional music) (Notable for being the very final Jerry Goldsmith recorded and released by the label due to illness. He would die in August 2004. Also, due to his illness, Debney was brought in to finish the film when Goldsmith could not and his contributions are now available)
  • VCL 1120-1208 Babe: The Deluxe Edition - Nigel Westlake (Debut of complete score without dialog or songs originally featured on the original 1995 Varèse release)
  • VCL 0321-1209 Along Came a Spider: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0321-1210 The Serpent and the Rainbow: The Deluxe Edition - Brad Fiedel / Babatunde Olatunji (The complete definitive release of this once rare soundtrack in the label's history featuring the partially used score by Olatunji which was never released until now with the rest going unused)
  • VCL 0521-1211 Lionheart: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith (Complete edition of soundtrack from the 1987 film which adds two more tracks that have never been released. Was delayed because errors in the artwork caused the label to reprint all artwork for June/July 2021 official release)
  • VCL 0521-1212 Knowing: The Deluxe Edition - Marco Beltrami
  • VCL 0621-1213 Paycheck: The Delxue Edition - John Powell
  • VCL 0621-1214 The Matrix: The Complete Edition - Don Davis (The definitive edition of 1999 score featuring the missing music from the 2008 Varese Deluxe Edition on two discs to coincide with the vinyl release of soundtrack for Record Store Day)
  • VCL 0621-1214 The Matrix: The Complete Edition (SCAD Edition) - Don Davis (The definitive edition of 1999 score featuring the missing music from the 2008 Varese Deluxe Edition on two discs to coincide with the vinyl release of soundtrack for Record Store Day. This second version of the soundtrack is a Super Audio CD which can only be played in SACD players to hear the score's full audio capabilities in 5.1 surround sound. This CD also plays in standard CD players as well as computer drives and Blu Ray players and is priced at $39.98)[67]
  • VCL 0821-1216 Love Field: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith/Bill Payne (Jazz Source tracks)
  • VCL 0821-1217 Dante's Peak: The Delxue Edition - John Frizzell/James Newton Howard (Despite the billing, Howard wrote or co-wrote with Frizell many of the tracks)
  • VCL 1021-1218 The Crow: The Deluxe Edition - Graeme Revell (Features Revell’s end title song, “It Can’t Rain All the Time,” performed by Jane Siberry)
  • VCL 1221-1219 Elf: The Deluxe Edition - John Debney
  • VCL 1221-1220 Blue Velvet: The Deluxe Edition - Angelo Badalamenti/Various (Definitive edition of original score and soundtrack extended program of previously unreleased film cues, alternates and outtakes entitled “Lumberton Firewood.”)
  • VCL 0322-1221 Iron Giant: The Deluxe Edition - Michael Kamen
  • VCL 0322-1222 How To Train Your Dragon 2: The Deluxe Edition - John Powell
  • VCL 0422-1223 Mimic: The Deluxe Edition - Marco Beltrami (Reissue of score featuring the Film Version of the Main Title not featured on previous releases)
  • VCL 0622-1226 The Bourne Identity: The Tumscent Edition - John Powell
  • VCL 0622-1227 Presumed Innocent: The Deluxe Edition - John Williams
  • VCL 1122-1228 Death Becomes Her: The Deluxe Edition - Alan Silvestri
  • VCL 1122-1229 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life: The Deluxe Edition - Alan Silvestri
  • VCL 1122-1230 L.A.Confidential: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VCL 0223-1231 The Time Machine: The Deluxe Edition - Klaus Badelt
  • VCL 0723-1234 City Hall: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith (This title will repressed by the label due to mastering issues. A new disc replacement will be sent to everyone who ordered the disc directly by the label.)
  • VCL 0723-1236 Mouse Hunt: The Deluxe Edition - Alan Silvestri
  • VCL 0823-1232 April Fools Day: The Deluxe Edition - Charles Bernstein (This is the premiere release of the original orchestrial music contained in the film as well as the original 1986 album which is all of the synthesizer work that was the basis for that album along with bonus material)
  • VCL 0823-1233 Blood Simple: The Deluxe Edition - Carter Burwell
  • VCL 1123-1234 Pleasantville: The Deluxe Edition - Randy Newman
  • VCL 1123-1235 Serenity: The Deluxe Edition - David Newman
  • VCL 0224-1237 How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World The Deluxe Edition - John Powell
  • VCL 0224-1238 Hellboy 2: The Golden Army The Deluxe Edition - Danny Elfman
  • VSD-00198 The Big Fix - Bill Conti (This was assigned a non-sequential number not following in line with the other current club releases. It is also possible that this title was meant to be VCL-1203 but probably erroroniously given VSD-00198 which would normally be a regular release from the label)

The Limited Edition Series (2009–2018)

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The Limited Edition Series was created in 2009 as an offshoot of the Varèse Sarabande CD Club with one major difference. The Limited Edition Series concentrates more on soundtrack titles for films that either have gone direct to digital, DVD or Blu-ray as well as some theatrical titles that received a very brief run, mini-series and television series such as Lost or Hemlock Grove. The majority of titles under this banner are limited to 1000 copies and look like the standard regular Varèse Sarabande mainstream releases with a small brown part containing the label's logo and white with their familiar lettering. Lost: The Last Episodes has the distinction of being the only title of more than 1000 copies produced with 5000 in this series. The label on occasion offered signed autographed booklets of these releases when available.[68]

The first releases in its debut were The Stoning of Soraya M. by John Debney and In the Electric Mist by Marco Beltrami in June 2009 and up to this point, Jim Henson's The StoryTeller by Rachel Portman is the final release under this banner since it is no longer active.

LP to CD Series (2015–2016)

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The LP to CD Subscription Series is another part of the label that was created and began in June 2015, which released titles from their past LP catalog that could be transferred from vinyl records to CDs for a fee of $10.00 per title per month plus $4.50 for shipping costs (automatically billed to a credit card) for 12 months finally ending in May 2016. This originally caused problems because many collectors did not want all of the titles that were being offered. The label then relented in the middle of the run and then offered the titles for sale individually for the same amount as the regular subscription. This started with Enola Gay by Maurice Jarre. Many chose to complete the run of twelve titles, not wanting to miss out on the titles being offered randomly and others chose to stop at some point.[69]

Each title was strictly limited for that particular month of release and would go out of print after that month passed. The label did not go back and reissue any the past titles that fans had missed. All the titles were announced randomly and not in the order of the number assigned to them. Each title was housed in reproduction LP style jacket cardboard slipcases with all original artwork and lettering from their LP counterpart intact along with a disclaimer stating if the title came from a vinyl source in small print in which most cases were LP transfers because of missing master tapes in the Varèse Sarabande vaults. A few titles did come from master tapes that were available including Invitation au voyage.

The first title issued was April Fool's Day by Charles Bernstein (VLE-9200-02, June 2015) which came housed in a mini LP-style maroon carrying case with the Varèse Sarabande logo embossed in gold foil lettering and room to store all subsequent future LP to CD titles in the series. Magnificent Obsession was the final release of the subscription set released in May 2016. Fans wanted the series to go on, but the label did not want to continue it and there are no plans to bring it back.

The list reflects the assigned catalog number for each title and not the order in which the titles were released during the subscription.

This version of the list reflects the release month for each title that was sent randomly by the label and not the catalog number in which the titles were assigned for the subscription.

  • June 2015 April Fool's Day - Charles Bernstein
  • July 2015 Invitation au voyage - Gabriel Yared
  • August 2015 Let's Get Harry - Brad Fiedel
  • September 2015 Blind Date (1984) - Stanley Myers / John Kongos (songs)
  • October 2015 Enola Gay - Maurice Jarre
  • November 2015 Sister, Sister - Richard Einhorn
  • December 2015 The Whistle Blower - John Scott
  • January 2016 Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy - John Scott
  • February 2016 Bad Dreams - Jay Ferguson
  • March 2016 A Minor Miracle - Rick Patterson
  • April 2016 52 Pick-Up - Gary Chang
  • May 2016 Magnificent Obsession - Frank Skinner

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We Hear You Series (2016 - 2018)

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This was a short lived series that started in late 2016 which the label created as the label attempted to listen to soundtrack fans and hear which titles from their catalog or another label's catalog they would like to see released. The label mined companies such as Paramount, MGM and Universal for titles. The series did premiere the score from two popular television series, "The West Wing" and "21 Jump Street" which was in demand by many fans while, it also premiered the debut of the original scores to the classic Neil Simon films "Barefoot In The Park" and "The Odd Couple".

The series ended in early 2018 after Concord officially took over the label and revamped the Varese catalog. The first official release was Lalo Schifrin's score for "Boulevard Nights" which was released on Warner Bros. Records in 1978 and featuring a song from Grammy Winning jazz guitarist George Benson.

Masters Film Music (1989–1992, 2002–2016)

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This label imprint founded by Robert Townson in Canada with a record store and a few partners, first appeared with the original release of The Final Conflict[71] in 1986 after agreeing to a distribution deal after securing the rights to release the soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith through Twentieth Century Fox. The sales of the album were an immediate success for both labels. Then the following year the soundtrack to Lionheart,[72] was released in two separate albums with the cooperation of the composer and forming a positive relationship with Goldsmith that would help Townson and the label move forward in its eventual success.

The label then became a full-fledged series of CDs when the club launched in 1989 and was also a part of the reactivated club in 2001 with the designation of the Special Release Series (SRS). These albums were licensed through A&M Canada and Decca International as Townson had secured the rights to reissue Goldsmith's The Boys From Brazil, Roy Budd's The Wild Geese, Goldsmith's live concert series with the London Philharmonia entitled Suites and Themes[73] and Bernard Herrmann's Obsession, which was one of his two final film scores before his death in 1975.[74] These were the first set of club CDs that were released and sold in unison with Varèse Sarabande CD Club releases. These, unlike the second generation of club volumes, did not change its numbering system when the club resumed production in 2001. This series also includes the first box set Varèse Sarabande ever produced Bernard Herrmann: The Concert Suites, which was an audiophile set of Decca re-recordings conducted by the composer[75] and two extremely short soundtracks at 20 minutes each in both Under the Volcano[76] which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1984 for its composer Alex North and Those Secrets by Oscar nominee Thomas Newman[77] dubbed as "mini-classics". The Final Conflict and Lionheart are not part of this series since they were released as commercial regular releases by the label and NOT included in this section.

There were two confirmed cancellations of titles from the original set of releases which were Lilies of the Field and John Williams' Heartbeeps. No explanation to their cancellation has ever been stated, but Heartbeeps would be the first title to be released as part of the reactivated Varèse Sarabande Club in 2001 after three years of rumors and speculation that this title would be the one the label would reactivate the Soundtrack Club with after its announcement in 1998.[22]

This part of the club is now deactivated and there are no current plans to revive it or release any future titles under this banner.

Varèse 500 Series (2016–2017)

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This series was unveiled in December 2016 which was similar to the Varèse Encore Series which was designed to reissue out-of-print titles from the commercial catalog from the beginning to the present. These featured new artwork and liner notes for each release which was limited to only 500 copies which is half the run of the Encore Series which was only 1000. Each disc was priced at $15.98 apiece and look similar to the standard releases with the distinct 500 prefix as part of the catalog number and a beautiful logo on the artwork featured.

The series looks to be dormant and unsuccessful as Concord has other plans for the label which include releasing new, older scores and expansions of their vast catalog.[78]


Andante Records (1982–1984)

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This was an offshoot of the label created by Tom Null, which was meant to be dedicated towards classical releases during the early 1980s after the label had begun to be known for its very successful soundtrack releases. While it did concentrate on classical releases, it did attempt two soundtrack releases as a test which were the re-recordings of The Adventures of Robin Hood and Kings Row, both by Erich Wolfgang Korngold originally issued by the label on CD and LP. The prefix for the LPs started with AD and their CDs with ACD.

This label did not last long. It did try the newly minted CD format in 1984 with just a handful of releases and soon after was deactivated. A lot of the classical titles released on LP were then reissued as part of Varèse's 47000 CD series with the same contents and artwork.


Colossal Records (1989–1992)

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This peculiar offshoot of Varèse Sarabande with a name inspired by their German counterpart, Colosseum Schallplatten, which was a short-lived (1989–1992) series that made available scores that were either vanity titles from television mini-series (i.e. Till We Meet Again, The Phantom of the Opera) or titles to lower-profile films (i.e. A Show of Force, Eve of Destruction). The lettering is similar to the regular Varèse Sarabande soundtrack releases with a major difference in both the logo and the spine which contained different colors (i.e. blue, green, purple, etc.) as well as the lettering as opposed to the regular Varèse Sarabande titles which had brown spines and white lettering as well as containing the catalog number (i.e. VSD-5200).[79] The titles on this subsidiary were paid for by the label itself and not by the composers as it had been rumored to have been which was confirmed by the label's executive producer Robert Townson when he was running the label.

The only title in this series, Bed and Breakfast looks like the standard Varèse Sarabande regular releases due to an error in the number sequence.

Varese Signature Series (2017)

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This series was intended for titles to smaller films, mostly direct to video or digital films that were not considered as part of the standard Varese regular catalog releases. The CD's were sold only through the Varese Saraabande website which debuted in November 2017 for a low price which featured an autographed booklet signed by the composer of the soundtrack included with the standard non-signed one in very limited runs of 300 CD's or more. This series was immediately cancelled after their initial and only CD, Jasmine by Shie Rozow did not sell at all. This series is no longer active and no future CDs forthcoming.

Digital Release Series (2003–present)

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This section is dedicated to Varèse Sarabande titles that have been exclusively released as digital releases via various online websites including iTunes, Amazon and Tidal. Varèse first dabbled into this field in 2003 with their release of Trevor Jones' action score to the Alan Moore adaptation of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen[80] which met with a bad reception due to collectors wanting an actual physical CD and not a download. A similar situation occurred a year later with the score to the remake of Man on Fire[81] starring Oscar winner Denzel Washington, which was only released only as a digital release with nearly 80 minutes of music and later in the summer of 2004, a physical CD of that score was announced and released due to high demand. However, it was released as a condensed version with the digital release having more music.

In later years, the label released titles as digital only due to the soundtracks' running times or lack of commercial sales. These were often titles to smaller films in the independent market with some studio films being released only in this fashion as well as direct to video or straight Blu-ray or streamed movie titles or television series. Some titles such as The Limehouse Golem, Jasmine and The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature have been the only titles thus far to be released as physical CD albeit in very limited quantities of up to 500 copies. A few titles, such as Erased, Drive Hard, Evidence and Imogene (Girl Most Likely) have appeared on Amazon as part of an on demand CDR series in conjunction with labels such as Sony Classical and WaterTower Music which have also appeared in this manner. Numbers in this series are totally random and do not go according to release date. They might also coincide with potential physical release numbers assigned from the main series (5200–7500) from announced releases that were later cancelled as physical CDs (e.g. Maggie, Jane Got a Gun, etc.).

The label's website also announces these digital only releases along with upcoming CDs and LPs in their upcoming releases.[82]


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Varese Sarabande Vinyl (special editions and releases / reissues) (2013–present)

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The label made a return to vinyl with reissues of some of their older albums on CD (Rudy, Star Wars Trilogy, Blade etc.) to capitalize on the current craze with the format. The label has reissued many titles as special editions in colored or unique vinyl along with new artwork in some cases to distinguish itself from their original LP issues or CDs. Many of these LPs were available through the website or through stores such as Barnes & Noble, Mondo and Fire Records as exclusives and many were released to promote Record Store Day. Many releases were limited to between 1000 and 3000 copies. Some titles are exclusive to the Varèse Sarabande website.

  • VSD 030206109535 The Right Stuff (blue vinyl) - Bill Conti (Limited edition of 750 copies)
  • VSD 030206114355 Nemesis (green thalaron vinyl) - Jerry Goldsmith (Two-LP gatefold green thalaron colored vinyl set exclusive only available through Varèse Sarabande's website limited only to 750 copies)
  • VSD 030206320015 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (10 inch vinyl WWII "V-Disc") - Steven Price (Record Store Day 2015 exclusive. Limited to 1000 copies. This 10" vinyl album is packaged in a die-cut slipcase, designed to match an authentic WWII "V-Disc", the recordings sent to international bases for armed forces airplay to entertain the troops. Includes nine cues from the acclaimed score, including versions of two tracks exclusive to this vinyl edition. Package includes a download card for digital tracks)
  • VSD 030206526851 Forbidden Zone (translucent lime green vinyl) - Danny Elfman / Oingo Boingo
  • VSD 030206528152 The Omen - Jerry Goldsmith (Limited to only 666 hand-numbered copies)
  • VSD 030206530801 Unforgiven (25th Anniversary Edition) (prairie sand vinyl) - Lennie Niehaus / Clint Eastwood (Barnes & Noble exclusive. Limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 030206544633 Rudy (shamrock green vinyl) - Jerry Goldsmith (CCVinyl.com exclusive. Limited to 800)
  • VSD 030206544633 Rudy (Irish gold vinyl) - Jerry Goldsmith (Varèse exclusive edition. Limited to 800 copies)
  • VSD 030206549911 Original Motion Picture Score (180 gram) - Graeme Revell (The outer cover features a new comic book artist rendering of the Crow from a pivotal scene in the film)
  • VSD 030206654219 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman & Irwin Kostal
  • VSD 030206602630 Original Motion Picture Score (green vinyl) - Don Davis (Newbury Comics exclusive. Limited to between 500 & 1000 copies)
  • VSD 030206602654 The Matrix (red pill / blue pill color vinyl) - Don Davis (Amazon.com exclusive. Limited to 1500 copies)
  • VSD 030206606256 The Iron Giant (orange & yellow swirl vinyl) - Michael Kamen (Available exclusively through Books-A-Million and 2nd & Charles locations in the US. Limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 030206606610 Dark Shadows (purple vinyl) - Bob Cobert
  • VSD 030206606119 The Sixth Sense - James Newton Howard (Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies)
  • VSD 030206628616 Ghosts of Mars - John Carpenter
  • VSD 030206635836 Ice Age (picture disc vinyl) - David Newman
  • VSD 030206636734 The Bourne Identity (military green vinyl) - John Powell (Limited edition to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 030206691917 The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. - Jerry Goldsmith / Dave Grusin / Richard Shores / Teddy Randazzo (Record Store Day release 2013. Limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 030206709711 Game of Thrones - Ramin Djawadi
  • VSD 030206719314 Pain & Gain - Steve Jablonsky
  • VSD 030206719710 Stuck in Love - Mike Mogis & Nate Walcott
  • VSD 030206719819 Star Trek Into Darkness - Michael Giacchino
  • VSD 030206722710 Ender's Game - Steve Jablonsky
  • VSD 030206729856 Penny Dreadful (translucent red vinyl) - Abel Korzeniowski
  • VSD 030206730951 John Wick (gunmetal vinyl) - Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard / various artists
  • VSD 030206732214 Orphan Black - various artists
  • VSD 030206738018 Carol (Double 10" album) - Carter Burwell / various artists
  • VSD 030206739015 The Mad Max Trilogy (Mad Max / The Road Warrior / Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) (gray, black & sand vinyl) - Brian May / Maurice Jarre, Tina Turner (This three-LP set was limited to only 2000 copies and soundtracks have been combined into a stellar deluxe package designed by Marvel comic artist, Tim Bradstreet, (The Punisher, Blade))
  • VSD 030206739251 The Star Wars Trilogy (blue translucent, red translucent & green translucent lightsaber[88] tri-color vinyl) - John Williams / Varujan Kojian conductor (Newbury Comics exclusive. Limited to 1000 copies)[89]
  • VSD 030206739718 Star Trek Beyond - Michael Giacchino
  • VSD 030206741117 Nighthawks - Keith Emerson (Limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 030206743012 Popeye - Harry Nilsson / various artists (Record Store Day Black Friday 2016 release. Limited to 2000 copies)
  • VSD 030206743616 Barbarella - Bob Crewe & Charles Fox
  • VSD 030206742510 Roots (30th Anniversary Edition) - Quincy Jones (Limited edition reissue of 1977 album. Limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 030206745917 Wheeler - Wheeler Bryson
  • VSD 030206748956 Silent Running (green vinyl) - Peter Schickele (Reissue of original Decca release and 1978 Varèse Sarabande green vinyl reissue)
  • VSD 030206748413 Power Rangers (black vinyl) - Brian Tyler
  • VSD 030206748437 Power Rangers (Red Ranger vinyl variant) - Brian Tyler (FYE exclusive. Limited to 500 copies)
  • VSD 030206748444 Power Rangers (Blue Ranger vinyl variant) - Brian Tyler (Indie exclusive. Limited to 500 copies)
  • VSD 030206748451 Power Rangers (Pink Ranger vinyl variant)) - Brian Tyler (Hot Topic exclusive. Limited to 500 copies)
  • VSD 030206748468 Power Rangers (Yellow Ranger vinyl variant) - Brian Tyler (Barnes & Noble exclusive. Limited to 500 copies)
  • VSD 030206749113 Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space - Leonard Nimoy / various artists
  • VSD 030206750010 Christine (blue vinyl) - John Carpenter in association with Alan Howarth
  • VSD 030206750034 Christine (red vinyl) - John Carpenter in association with Alan Howarth
  • VSD 030206751215 Charlotte's Web - Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
  • VSD 030206751550 The Bad News Bears (yellow vinyl) - Jerry Fielding (Available for the first time on LP as a limited 1000 unit release)
  • VSD 030206753158 Mad Max (red and gray haze vinyl) - Brian May (Exclusive to Newbury Comics. Limited edition of 750 copies)
  • VSD 030206753510 Tooth and Tail - Austin Wintory
  • VSD 030206753615 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Carter Burwell / various artists
  • VSD 030206754858 Road House ("Double Deuce" neon blue vinyl) - Jeff Healey Band / various artists (Barnes & Noble exclusive edition. Limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 030206755411 Fletch - Harold Faltermeyer / various artists
  • VSD 030206755619 Knight Rider - Stu Phillips (Two LP Record Store Day 2019 exclusive. Limited to 2000 copies)
  • VSD 030206757415 V For Vendetta - Dario Marianelli / various artists (Two-LP set featuring original artwork by Gary Pullin)
  • VSD 030206757859 Pee-wee's Big Adventure / Back to School (red vinyl) - Danny Elfman / John Coleman, conductor
  • VSD 030206758412 Sicario: Day of the Soldado - Hildur Guðnadóttir
  • VSD 030206829210 Blue Velvet - Angelo Badalamenti / various artists
  • VSD 030206666359 Stripes (red, white & blue vinyl) - Elmer Bernstein (CCVinyl.com exclusive. Limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 030206668216 Serenity - David Newman (Barnes & Noble exclusive. Two-LP vinyl set. Limited to 1500 copies)
  • VSD 030206669916 Firefly - Greg Edmonson (Barnes & Noble exclusive. Two-LP gatefold vinyl. Limited to 1800 copies)
  • VSD 030206701210 How to Train Your Dragon (dragon eye green vinyl) - John Powell (Record Store Day 2016 release. Limited to 2000 copies)
  • VSD 030206709513 The Family Way - Paul McCartney (2015 Record Store Day exclusive release)
  • VSD 030206714814 Game of Thrones: Season 2 - Ramin Djawadi (Two-LP set that was initially sold exclusively through Barnes & Noble, but then later made available through other retailers)
  • VSD 030206728613 Whiplash - Justin Hurwitz / various artists (Released for Record Store Day 2015)
  • VSD 030206728613 Whiplash (clear vinyl) - Justin Hurwitz / various artists (Newbury Comics exclusive. Limited to 500 copies)
  • VSD 030206728613 Whiplash (red vinyl) - Justin Hurwitz / various artists (CCVinyl.com exclusive. Limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 030206731415 Orange Is the New Black - Gwendolyn Sanford, Brandon Jay, Scott Doherty
  • VSD 030206731415 Orange Is the New Black (orange vinyl) - Gwendolyn Sanford, Brandon Jay, Scott Doherty (Record Store Day 2015 release. Limited to 2200 copies)
  • VSD 030206731514 Keep On Keepin' On - Dave Grusin / Clark Terry / Quincy Jones (Two-LP vinyl set. The first 200 copies included a postcard sized replica of the film poster autographed by Quincy Jones)
  • VSD 030206736915 Sicario - Jóhann Jóhannsson (Two-LP edition)
  • VSD 030206739213 The Star Wars Trilogy (standard vinyl) - John Williams / Varujan Kojian conductor
  • VSD 888072101487 The Fly (1986) (teleporter fog green vinyl) - Howard Shore
  • VSD 888072101500 Scream/Scream 2 (red vinyl) - Marco Beltrami
  • VSD 888072105874 Heathers (30th Anniversary) (very green neon vinyl) - David Newman
  • VSD 888072029248 Shaft (1971) (Two-LP 180 g vinyl) - Isaac Hayes
  • VSD 888072063006 Varèse Sarabande: 40 Years of Great Film Music 1978–2018 - various artists
  • VSD 888072069671 The Zombies: Complete Studio Recordings (Five-LP vinyl box set) - the Zombies
  • VSD 888072070103 L.A. Confidential - Jerry Goldsmith
  • VSD 888072073760 Fritz the Cat (picture disc) - Ed Bogas & Ray Shanklin / various artists (Record Store Day Black Friday 2018 - Limited to 2500 copies)
  • VSD 888072073869 Vertigo (60th anniversary vinyl) - Bernard Herrmann (Remastered from the original analog tapes pressed at RTI (Record Technology) on to 180 gm vinyl, and slipped into a classic tip-on jacket from Stoughton Press)
  • VSD 888072077584 Krypton (orange / yellow galaxy color vinyl) - Pinar Toprak (Record Store Day 2019 exclusive. Limited edition of 1350 copies)
  • VSD 888072080294 The Last of the Mohicans (re-recording) (tan vinyl) - Trevor Jones / Randy Edelman, Joel McNeely, conductor (First time release on LP, available through Barnes & Noble)
  • VSD 888072082144 I Know What You Did Last Summer (red vinyl) - various artists (Two-LP Record Store Day 2019 release. Limited to 1350 copies)
  • VSD 888072088382 Star Trek - Michael Giacchino (Record Store Day 2019 release. Limited to 2000 copies)
  • VSD 888072089860 The Goonies (gold vinyl) - Dave Grusin (Two-LP vinyl set. Limited to 750 hand-numbered copies only available through the Varèse Sarabande website)
  • VSD 888072089013 Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Jerry Goldsmith (Two-LP set only available at Varèse Sarabande's website limited to 750 copies. This is the deluxe edition released as part of the Varèse Club)
  • VSD 888072086067 Farscape: 20th Anniversary Edition (gold vinyl) - Guy Gross / Subvision (Limited edition vinyl featuring unreleased bonus tracks)
  • VSD 888072086876 Carlito's Way - Patrick Doyle (Barnes & Noble exclusive, limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 888072092051 How to Train Your Dragon (picture disc vinyl) - John Powell (Comes with a four-page fold out poster)
  • VSD 888072105874 Vince Guaraldi - It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (etched black vinyl) - Vince Guaraldi
  • VSD 888072100060 Blade - Mark Isham
  • VSD 888072122918 John Wick - Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard / various artists (Two-LP gatefold vinyl set with added bonus track Marilyn Manson's "Killing Strangers", not available on the CD or digital releases)
  • VSD 888072122987 John Wick: Chapter 2 - Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard / various artists (Two-LP gatefold vinyl set)
  • VSD 888072122949 John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum - Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard / various artists (Two-LP vinyl gatefold set)
  • VSD 888072113664 Jim Henson's Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas - Paul Williams (Released in Canada as Black Friday 2019 release. Limited edition of 2500 copies)
  • VSD 888072149618 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: Volumes 1 & 2 - Daniel Pemberton / Samuel Sim
  • VSD 888072157835 The Buddy Holly Story: Deluxe Edition - various artists
  • VSD 888072172975 Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire - Joel McNeely / John Williams ("Star Wars Theme")
  • VSD 888072173002 The Holiday (snow-white vinyl) - Hans Zimmer
  • VSD 888072173040 Xena Warrior Princess: Lyre, Lyre, Hearts On Fire (picture disc vinyl) - Joseph LoDuca / various artists
  • VSD 888072181400 The Running Man: Deluxe Edition - Harold Faltermeyer (Features the same contents as the Varèse Club CD as a two-LP gatefold package features original artwork created by Florian Mihr and includes images from the film and extensive liner notes by Daniel Schweiger on the inner sleeves)
  • VSD 888072195509 Game of Thrones (White Walker vinyl) - Ramin Djawadi (Two-LP vinyl limited edition released in Europe)
  • VSD 888072204898 Elf (picture disc) - John Debney (Only available through Walmart as an exclusive vinyl LP)
  • VSD 888072227279 The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Daniel Pemberton
  • VSD 888072240445 The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams / Charles Gerhardt cond. (Reissue of Suite conducted by Gerhardt on Chalfont Records in 1980 and later released on CD by the label as 47204 & 5353. LP is the contents as the original LP and subsequent CD releases)
  • VSD 888072369948 Amadeus: Deluxe Vinyl Box Set - various artists (Special box set features the 180-gram three vinyl album, a theatrical poster and a 16-page booklet, complete with new liner notes by the film's conductor, Sir Neville Marriner, plus original liner notes by Grover Sales, a story overview and detailed information on each track)
  • VSD 888072234550 The Sound Of Music - Julie Andrews / Various (LP reissue of classic 1965 film of the original soundtrack album)
  • VSD 888072369962 J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Deluxe Vinyl Box Set - Leonard Rosenman (Two-LP gatefold set)
  • VSD 888072265783 The Crow: The Deluxe Edition - Graeme Revell (This 2 LP set features the complete score by Revell and includes the song "It Can't Rain All The Time" performed by Jane Siberry)
  • VSD 888072266926 Scream: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks - Marco Beltrami (Four LP set of scores from all four original Scream films previously issued on CD by the label.)
  • VSD 888072414006 The Bourne Identity - John Powell (This is the LP issue of the 2002 release of the soundtrack and not the Varese Club Deluxe Edition)
  • VSD 888072419001 The Iron Giant: The Deluxe Edition - Michael Kamen (black vinyl) (Two-LP remastered release of soundtrack previously released as part of the Varese CD Club.)
  • VSD 888072417915 Scream (2022)- Brian Tyler (clear red and smoke vinyl) (Release of score also released on CD of Tyler's score on specialized vinyl. Limited to only 300 copies sold exclusively through the Varese Sarabande website)
  • VSD 888072417922 Scream (2022) - Brian Tyler (Release of score also released on CD on standard black vinyl)
  • VSD 888072409385 The Matrix: The Complete Edition (black vinyl) - Don Davis (Three-LP release June 12, 2021. This features the same contents as the Varèse Club CD release expanded to 44 tracks, and housed in a new art design. Also included are classic film stills and an exclusive new interview with composer Don Davis)
  • VSD 888072426429 The Omen - Jerry Goldsmith (red-black splatter) (LP reissue of original 1976 album of Academy Award Winning soundtrack)
  • VSD 888072428041 Firestarter - Tangerine Dream (fuego orange vinyl) (Reissue of 1984 soundtrack on special colored vinyl. Limited to only 1500 Copies sold exclusively through the Varese Sarabande website)
  • VSD 888072448025 The Iron Giant: The Deluxe Edition - Michael Kamen (green vinyl) (Two-LP remastered release of soundtrack previously released as part of the Varese CD Club. This Green Vinyl version is sold exclusively through the Varese site)
  • VSD 888072540187 Little Richard: I Am Everything - Little Richard
  • VSD 888072532410 Murder By Death - Dave Grusin
  • VSD 00065 Mortal Kombat (25th Anniversary) - George S. Clinton (Record Store Day exclusive release September 26, 2020, limited edition of 1500 copies)
  • VSD 00199 The Matrix (picture disc vinyl) - Don Davis (This vinyl features the same contents as the red pill / blue pill colored vinyl)
  • VSD 00206 Hackers (25th Anniversary) - Simon Boswell / various artists (Record Store Day exclusive release September 26, 2020, limited edition of 2500 copies)
  • VSD 00354 Mission Impossible 3 - Michael Giacchino (Limited Edition 2 LP Red With Black Smoke [Rabbit's Foot] Vinyl)
  • VSD 00388 Blue Velvet - Angelo Badalamenti (Record Store Day, 2 LP Blue Marbleized, Gatefold Vinyl)
  • VSD 00407 Scream Soundtracks (1 -4 Collection) - Marco Beltrami (LP Box set Red With Black Smoke, LP, Album, RE, Red With Black Smoke, LP, Album, RE, Red With Black Smoke, LP, Album, RE, Red With Black Smoke. Available through the Varese Sarabande website)
  • VSD 00463 The Cowboys - John Williams (Limited Edition 2 LP Gold Vinyl)
  • VSD 00466 Mimic - Marco Beltrami (Record Store Day, Limited Edition Green Vinyl)
  • VSD 00470 The Matrix: The Complete Edition - Don Davis (Limited Edition 3 LP set)
  • VSD 00474 Big Night - Various Artists (Record Store Day, Limited Edition Clear Vinyl)
  • VSD 00492 The Iron Giant - Michael Kamen (Limited Edition 2 LP Vinyl set of The CD Deluxe Edition)
  • VSD 00502 Death Becomes Her: The Deluxe Edition - Alan Silvestri (Record Store Day Limited Edition, Purple Vinyl. Available through the Varese Sarabande website)
  • VSD 00507 Firestarter - Tangerine Dream (Limited Edition Fuego colored vinyl)
  • VSD 00514 Blood Simple: The Deluxe Edition - Carter Burwell (Record Store Day, Limited Edition Red with Black Smoke [Killer Crimson] Vinyl. Only available through the Varese Sarabande website)
  • VSD 00541 Three O'Clock High - Tangerine Dream / Sylvester Levay / Jim Walker (Limited Edition Blue Vinyl. Only Available through the Varese Sarabande website)
  • VSD 00548 How To Train Your Dragon 2 - John Powell (Record Store Day, Limited Edition 2 LP, Red Translucent With Multicolor Splatter Vinyl)
  • VSD 00666 Lost Season One - Michael Giacchino
  • VSD 00669 Lost Season One - Michael Giacchino (2 LP Limited Edition Blue Translucent w/ Black And Blue Smoke Vinyl [Oceanic Black Smoke Marble] Only Available through the Varese Sarabande website)
  • VSD 00672 Murder By Death - Dave Grusin (Limited Edition - Clear LP. Only Available through the Varese Sarabande website)
  • VSD 00689 Scream 6 - Brian Tyler & Sven Falconer (Limited Edition 2 LP Set. Green Marble [Stab Green] Only Available through the Varese Sarabande website)
  • VSD 030206729856 Penny Dreadful - Abel Korzenowski
  • VSD 00000 The Matrix (glitter-infused green vinyl) - Don Davis (Record Store Day exclusive three-LP release June 12, 2021. This features the same contents as the Varèse Club CD release expanded to 44 tracks, and housed in a new art design. Also included are classic film stills and an exclusive new interview with composer Don Davis)
  • VSD 00000 The Goonies (35th Anniversary) (picture disc vinyl) - Dave Grusin (Record Store Day exclusive June 12, 2021. The special release features the album cover on side A and the infamous One-Eyed Willie on side B. The track listing to this abbreviated single-disc version of the original score was personally selected and assembled by Grusin himself)
  • VSD 00000 Village of the Damned: Deluxe Edition (orange haze vinyl) - John Carpenter & Dave Davies (Record Store Day exclusive June 12, 2021. This two-LP vinyl features the same content as the recent Varèse Club CD release. The album includes all-new original art direction with new notes and classic film stills)
  • VSD 00000 Shrek (20th Anniversary) (green vinyl) - Harry Gregson-Williams & John Powell (Record Store Day exclusive June 12, 2021. Limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 00000 The Iron Giant (picture disc vinyl) - Michael Kamen (Record Store Day exclusive July 17, 2021)
  • VSD 00000 Ghosts of Mars (20th Anniversary) (Red Planet color vinyl) - John Carpenter (Record Store Day exclusive July 17, 2021. Limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 00000 Aliens: 35th Anniversary (acid-blood yellow-green vinyl) - James Horner (Record Store Day exclusive July 17, 2021. Limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSD 00000 Death Becomes Her: The Deluxe Edition - Alan Silvestri (purple vinyl) (Expanded release of Silvestri's 1992 score which will also be released as part of the Varese CD Club. This is a Black Friday Record Store Day release for November 2022)
  • VSD 00000 Mimic - Marco Beltrami (green vinyl) (This is a Black Friday Record Store Day release for November 2022)
  • VSD 00000 The Cowboys: The Deluxe Edition - John Williams (gold vinyl) (2 LP reissue of original Varese Club CD title. This is a Black Friday Record Store Day release for November 2022)
  • VSD 00000 Three O'Clock High - Tangerine Dream / Sylvester Levay (Additional Music) (Standard Black Vinyl)
  • VSD 00000 Three O'Clock High - Tangerine Dream / Sylvester Levay (Additional Music) (Limited Edition Blue Vinyl Edition)
  • MOND-035 The Iron Giant - Michael Kamen (Two-LP remastered release by Mondo 2019 with metal slipcase)
  • MOND-125 Speed Racer (white with red racing stripe vinyl) - Michael Giacchino (Two-LP exclusive set released through Mondo. Remastered edition. Limited to 1000 copies)
  • FROST003LP Blue Velvet (blue & blue split vinyl) - Angelo Badalamenti / various artists (Limited edition release through Fire Records)

Varese Sarabande Vinyl Club (2023 - )

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This newly announced Vinyl Club is the spinoff of the original Varese CD Club featuring special edition soundtracks for the vinyl format for this special collection catered to audiophiles of the format. The first title to be announced is Basil Poledouris' classic score to that 1997 film, "Starship Troopers" directed by Poledouris' friend, Paul Verhoven and was part of the original Varese CD Club years ago. This release and like many upcoming titles will feature specialized artwork and LP variants from standard to special limited collectors editions like Starship Troopers's Blood and Bug Juice edition. All these titles will only be available through the Varese Sarabande website and no membership is needed to buy the titles much like the CD Club.

  • VSVCLP01 - Starship Troopers - Basil Poledouris (Standard Black 2 LP Vinyl Edition)
  • VSVCLP01 - Starship Troopers - Basil Poledouris (Blood and Bug Juice Vinyl - Limited Edition 2 LP Vinyl)

The Cancelled Albums (1987–present)

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Like all record labels, Varèse has had their fair share of cancelled albums that were planned, announced to the public and for some reason, such as legal issues or the films' failure at the box office, the recording is not published. There are other cases such as Elmer Bernstein's The Good Son and Brian Reitzell's 30 Days of Night in which the label announced a release only for another label to release it.

Many have what are considered "phantom" numbers during the early days of the label meaning that they were planned and given a catalog number and then be cancelled. Many of these "cancellations" are listed in the CD catalog throughout the 47000, 704, 5200, and 6000 series of releases as well as the Varèse Sarabande Club and Masters Film Music series. Many were announced at publications such as Film Score Monthly[90] and the Muze music database which provided information for CD releases in record stores. And eventually websites such as Amazon also offer the same information as part of their pre-orders.

This list below corresponds to titles that were planned and announced by the label but were never fulfilled. Some pertain to legal publishing and copyright conflicts and others due to uncooperative studios, production companies and lost orchestral sketches, deteriorated, lost or misplaced recording session tapes. While the ones listed within the catalog do have an official number, others do not and will be labeled as VSDC-0000 (Varèse Sarabande disc cancellation) and year of announcement (1998, 2000, etc.).

AND NO, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace IS definitely NOT one of them! That would be Warner Bros. Records!

  • SRS 2010 Lilies of the Field - Jerry Goldsmith (Planned, but cancelled. Reissued by Perseverance Records)
  • SRS 2012 Heartbeeps - John Williams (Planned, but cancelled – was the first title released for the reactivated club as well as being the first of the long-rumored titles announced in 1998 but released in 2001)
  • XCD-1001 Tiger Warsaw - Ernest Troost (Released on LP, planned for a CD release but cancelled)
  • VCD-47299 The Penitent - Alex North (Planned, assigned a catalog number and cancelled. Tapes are presumed lost)
  • VCD-70452 Two Moon Junction - Jonathan Elias (Released on LP and announced on CD but ultimately cancelled without explanation. Released in 1994 as VSD-5518)
  • VCD-70453 Lady In White - Frank LaLoggia (Released on LP and announced on CD but ultimately cancelled without explanation. Released by East West Records in 1997 and expanded by Intrada Records around 2018)
  • VCD-70456 Bad Dreams - Jay Ferguson (Announced, assigned a catalog number and cancelled. Finally released as part of Varèse Sarabande's LP-to-CD Subscription Series)
  • VCD-70457 Dead Heat - Ernest Troost (Announced, assigned a catalog number and cancelled. Available on LP)
  • VCD-704?? "Predator / Die Hard" - Alan Silvestri / Michael Kamen (Announced with a pending catalog number and cancelled. The label had planned a double feature disc of both popular scores for an album containing approx. 15 Minute suites of both scores that would've been recorded in Europe had the film scores been recorded there. Ultimately, Twentieth Century-Fox (now part of Disney) decided to record the scores in Los Angeles and the title was scrapped. Around 1993, Fox Film Scores had a similar idea and planned a release utilizing the music recorded at the Los Angeles recording sessions for both scores. However, it would've been approx. 45 Minutes of Predator and 30 Minutes of Die Hard on one disc. This release was also cancelled. Varese Sarabande would ultimately release both scores individually as part of the revival of their CD Club in 2002 (Die Hard) and 2003 (Predator) respectively)
  • VCDM-704.440 Pass The Ammo - Carter Burwell (Planned for release, assigned a catalog number and cancelled)
  • VSD-5336 Dutch - Alan Silvestri / various artists (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled. Silvestri's score would be released by La-La Land Records in 2010.)
  • VSD-5362 Rock-a-Doodle - Robert Folk / T.J. Kuenster (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled. Released in Germany by the Good Music Label. Newly released in complete from by Quartet Records in association With Movie Score Media Records)
  • VSD-5387 Whispers in the Dark - Thomas Newman (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled. Later released by Intrada Records in 2012)
  • VSD-5458 The Good Son - Elmer Bernstein (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled. Subsequently, released by Fox Movie Scores)
  • VSD-5474 Mother's Boys - George S. Clinton (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled)
  • VSD-5650 Lost Civilizations - Joe Delia (This was music for the ten hour NBC Series which was announced, assigned catalog number and then cancelled. Released as an agency promotional CD for the composer)
  • VSD-5745 Alaska - Reg Powell (Planned, assigned a catalog number and cancelled)
  • VSD-6016 Analyze This - Howard Shore / various artists (Announced, assigned catalog number and canceled)
  • VSD-6126 Wonder Boys - Christopher Young (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled. A promo was produced and released for Oscar consideration)
  • VSD-6203 Legend: The Deluxe Edition - Jerry Goldsmith (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled. Reissued by Silva Screen Records in 2002. Eventually expanded by Music Box Records in cooperation with Silva Screen Records in 2021.)
  • VSD-6320 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius - John Debney (assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled)
  • VSD-6352 Dinotopia - Trevor Jones (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled. Released on CMP Records)
  • VSD-6751 Idlewild - John Debney (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled. FYC promo exists)
  • VSD-6822 Lucky You - Christopher Young (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled. Composer promo featuring more music than planned for a regular public release was released soon after)
  • VSD-6858 30 Days of Night - Brian Reitzell (Announced, assigned a catalog number and cancelled. Released by Ipac Recordings in 2007)
  • VSD-6935 Righteous Kill - Edward Shearmur (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled)
  • VSD-7001 It's Complicated - Hans Zimmer & Heitor Pereira (Announced and immediately cancelled by Zimmer due to the brevity of the score (approx. 17 minutes). Released digitally through Back Lot Music)[54]
  • VSD-7035 The Special Relationship - Alexandre Desplat (Assigned a number, planned for release and cancelled. Released as part of the Limited Edition series. in 2010. Please see above)
  • VSD-7161 High Ground - Chris Bacon (announced, assigned catalog number and cancelled. Digital release only)
  • VSD-7208 No Place on Earth - John Piscitello (announced, assigned catalog number and cancelled. Digital release only)
  • VSD-7323 The Newsroom - Thomas Newman / John Beal (Announced, assigned a catalog number and cancelled)
  • VSD-7344 Jane Got a Gun - Lisa Gerrard / Marcello De Francisci (Announced, assigned a catalog number and cancelled)
  • VSD-7360 Maggie - David Wingo (Digital download release, CD was planned but cancelled)
  • VSDC-1986 King Kong Lives - John Scott, the Graunke Symphony Orchestra (Planned as a 47000 title, the label made a deal with MCA Records to sell the release rights to them and the soundtrack was then released through them since MCA felt the movie would be a hit at the box office during Christmastime 1986. Richard Kraft and Tom Null are credited as executive producers on the album, which is the give away that the label produced this title first. MCA Records also planned this as a CD release but that never materialized due to the film's box office failure. The LP catalog number is STV 81302 which is scratched off the LP itself as proof of being a Varese title.)[91]
  • VSDC-1997 The Relic - John Debney (Planned as a regular release as a late 5700 numbered title originally planned for a 1996 late summer release until the studio (Paramount Pictures) delayed the film until January 1997)
  • VSDC-1997/1998 The Great Escape - Elmer Bernstein (re-recording) the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Re-recording of score conducted by Bernstein which was recorded in 1997 and produced by Robert Townson which was eventually sold to RCA/Victor and released in 1999)[92]
  • VSDC-1997/1998 The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein (re-recording) the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Re-recording of famed score conducted by Bernstein which was recorded in 1997 and produced by Robert Townson which was eventually sold to RCA/Victor and released in 1999)[93]
  • VSDC-1998 The Die Hard Trilogy - Michael Kamen, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Planned compilation re-recording featuring suites from all three Die Hard films, was announced in 1998 and then subsequently cancelled soon after)
  • VSDC-1998 Franz Waxman: Legends of Hollywood: Volume Five - Franz Waxman, Richard Mills conductor. Queensland Orchestra (Announced in 1998 as another re-recording addition to their previously released four volumes of music for the legendary composer. Due to be recorded in late 1998, early 1999, this never materialized and nothing was heard of the project)
  • VSDC-1999 Bernard Herrmann at 20th Century Fox - Bernard Herrmann (Originally planned as a two-disc set of titles devoted to the Golden Age composer but this was cancelled and rethought as separate individual three-disc volumes featuring suites from various scores released during 1999 in this variation. In 2011, the label released a more comprehensive 14-disc limited edition box set featuring the material on the three volumes in complete form through the Varèse Club and was limited to 1000 copies)
  • VSDC-1999 Jerry Goldsmith at 20th Century Fox - Jerry Goldsmith (Originally planned as a two-disc set of titles devoted to the Oscar winning composer but this was cancelled. In 2004, the label released a more comprehensive six-disc limited edition box set the Varèse Club on Goldsmith's birthday (February 10, 2004) and was limited to 1500 copies that featured three discs of unreleased material in suites and almost complete scores due to the sources available at the time of release)
  • VSDC-1998 Godzilla - Akira Ifukube, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Planned re-recording to coincide with the release of the 1998 Sony film was cancelled due to legal rights with the Toho film company in retaining the material to re-record the music)
  • VSDC-2000 Highlander - Michael Kamen, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Planned re-recording of popular in-demand score under the baton of Kamen, was in the planning stages until it was put on hold due to the composer's failing health and never materialized)
  • VSDC-2001 Antitrust - Don Davis (Planned to be released in early 2001, but cancelled due to the films' box office failure. An agency promo of the score for the composer exists)
  • VSDC-2001 3000 Miles To Graceland - George S. Clinton (Planned and cancelled after the films' box office failure. A promo of the score for the composer exists)

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