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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Howard Shore, Annie Lennox List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $14.98
Audio CD - 25 November, 2003
Reprise / Wea
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Number of Media: 1
CD Tracks:
A Storm Is Coming
Hope and Memory
Minas Tirith - Ben del Maestro
The White Tree
The Steward of Gondor - Billy Boyd
Minas Morgul
The Ride of the Rohirrim
Twilight and Shadow - Renee Fleming
Cirith Ungol
Anduril
Shelob's Lair
Ash and Smoke
The Fields of the Pelennor
Hope Fails
The Black Gate Opens - James Galway
The End of All Things - Renee Fleming
The Return of the King - Viggo Mortensen
The Grey Havens - James Galway
Into the West - Annie Lennox
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| Audio CD Description This final chapter of Peter Jackson's sprawling adaptation of Tolkien's "Ring" trilogy closes out one of the most accomplished cycles in cinema--and film music--history. As he's done for the saga's first two installments, composer Howard Shore has honed a mature, brooding orchestral masterpiece that's long on subtle shadings of mood and nuance, while eschewing the hollow bombast that's characterized all too many mainstream action and adventure films for three decades. If anything, he's pared this chapter of his music for Middle Earth even closer to the bone, the trilogy's familiar themes repeated with a sparing hand that only heightens their dramatic power. Like Herrmann before him, Shore has a preternatural understanding of orchestral timbres and their almost mystical connections with human emotions, and he's used it here to close out this remarkable trilogy with Wagnerian dramatic sweep, yet one with a distinctly modern, understated melodic sense that is Shore's alone. James Galway and Renee Fleming make key instrumental and vocal contributions, respectively, while Annie Lennox's soulful "Into the West" makes the expected, if unobtrusive, bow to the theatrical pop song conventions. -- |
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The best and the only disappointment... This is beautiful music. But you should be able to listen to it as it's meant to be listened to. Unfortunately, I work in a small cubicle area and share an office with hip-hop, country, and christian music fans. They are great people and we respect each other's spaces by playing our personal music preferences so as not to disturb each other. I live less than 3 miles from where I work, so I don't get to listen much in the car either. I would love to take a long road trip and play the CD's in my car. In the meantime, I play them at home and find myself recalling the movie scenes in which the music played.
Magnificent! I don't know why my CD player or the discs themselves haven't totally worn out from all the times I have been playing this and the Fellowship soundtracks! The Nazgul music, the beacons, the Minas Tirith, Grey Havens, Pippin singing, the hobbit themes from Fellowship disc, climbing up Mount Doom and the music at the Fire and Into the West, a gorgeous song about the purity of Frodo and Sam's love for each other and their hope of reunion. Lovely!
Nothing new All this does is repeat the one theme from the 1st movie. It went well with the movie but just sitting and listening to it by itself it does not hold up well. It is not something I would listen to again. |
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