Cold Spring sets ‘Tarkovsky’ 5CD soundtrack boxset for September
Cold Spring releases “Tarkovsky”, a 5CD boxset of Artemyev and Ovchinnikov soundtracks to five Andrei Tarkovsky films, out 4 September 2026.
UK label Cold Spring will release “Tarkovsky”, a five-CD boxset gathering the original soundtracks to the five core films of Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, on 4 September 2026. The Cold Spring “Tarkovsky” set collects the scores to “Ivan’s Childhood”, “Andrei Roublev”, “Solaris”, “Mirror” and “Stalker”, remastered from the original recordings.
Inside the Cold Spring ‘Tarkovsky’ boxset
The boxset splits across the two composers who scored Tarkovsky’s core work. Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov wrote the music for the early films “Ivan’s Childhood” (1962) and “Andrei Roublev” (1966), both rooted in orchestral and choral writing. Eduard Artemyev scored the later three: “Solaris” (1972), built with abstract synthesizer drones and treated organ on the Soviet ANS synthesizer; “Mirror” (1975), a denser companion piece; and “Stalker”, where Artemyev layered synth tones, flute, harpsichord and tar to build the film’s central theme.
Cold Spring issues the set as a deluxe matt-laminate box holding five CDs in individually-printed card sleeves, each paired with an artcard reproducing the original Russian or Japanese cinema poster. The label describes the source recordings as “sympathetically remastered and presented as close as possible to how striking they would have sounded to audiences at the original film presentations.” It is available to order through the Cold Spring webstore and Bandcamp.
About the Tarkovsky soundtracks and Cold Spring
Eduard Artemyev (1937-2022) was a central figure in Soviet electronic music and an early user of the ANS photoelectronic synthesizer. His scores for “Solaris”, “Mirror” and “Stalker” pair orchestral and electronic sources, and stand among the most studied film music of the era. Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936-2019), a composer and conductor, provided the orchestral scores for Tarkovsky’s first two features before the director’s work moved toward Artemyev’s electronic textures.
Cold Spring is a long-running UK label documenting dark ambient, industrial, noise and soundtrack material, and has built a catalogue of archival and reissue projects including its recent Hermann Kopp “Der Golem” soundtrack. The “Tarkovsky” boxset extends that soundtrack strand, collecting five scores that have long circulated separately into a single remastered release.
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