LOTR: FOTR Complete Recordings

[Shire Bagginz]

First of all, I realize that this box set has been out for a while now, but I personally have listened to it everyday (I kid you not) since it came out on Dec 13th, so as you might imagine I feel very passionately about this score; and I apologize if this topic has been discussed before on this board, as I imagine it has, but I'd like to get some fresh posts. So anyways...

I was just curious as to what everybody's favorite new or extended ques on the new complete recordings of LOTR: FOTR are.

Some of my favorite new ques are...

The Caverns Of Isengard Love the opening with the horns uttering a variation on the Fellowship theme and the rythm of the strings following has a great energy about it. Then of course the first and powerful statement of the Isenguard theme is wonderful. I especially love the crash cymbols (or they might actually be huge metal plates) that come in after the voice solo to accompany the main theme and 5/4 rythm.

Gilraen's Memorial My favorite part of this track is the great que that Shore wrote for the EE when the Fellowship leave Rivendell. Also the very eerie and beautiful vocals in the beggining, also written for the EE, is wonderful as well. This track on the whole is great because it mixes music not previously on the album with the music that was already there, such as the grand statement of the Fellowship theme as they pass over a Moutain top.

Caras Galadhon I love all the extra stuff on this track, especially the much better build up to the great choral line that plays when the Fellowship climb up the glittering, swirling stairs, up the tree in Lothlorien.

I could go on and on about almost every track on this album, but these are just some of my favorite ques for now.

What are yours?

[LAcomposer]

I haven't listened to the extended LOTR music in depth but the original scores are terrific...really fantastic! I think its some of the best film music written. It compliments the movies perfectly and manages to be a great listening experience on its own.

[lovelysilence]

ehh extra score? is it all right if i comment on the score i know? EDIT : I searched Amazon but don't seem to find an issue of an extended scenes OST. Where did you buy that?

RETURN OF THE KING

A storm is coming great atmosphere, beautiful intensity, great landscapes in the film are made even greater with this part

hope and memory

ride of the rohirrim nice use of irish instruments methinks

into the west ( annie lennox) really well done as a symphonic popsong almost totally blended within the soundtrack

TWO TOWERS

Foundations of Stone great opener

Isengard Unleashed (Liz Fraser) not the only fantastic melisma piece


heck they're all good


Don't have the Fellowship OST

[WoodIsGood]

I believe he's referring to this recently released CD set http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BNI90O/sr=8-1/qid=1144541548/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-2162050-9027122?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Haven't heard the extended cuts but now I am curious about them. I agree that the entire trilogy of music is one of the greats.

On another note, has anyone seen "A History of Violence"? I was disappointed in Howard Shore's score. Or was it the entire film itself? I don't know, but I remember listening to the music during the film and thinking "this was phoned it". Maybe I'm being too harsh. Anyone heard it? Otherwise I am a big Shore fan.

[lovelysilence]

thanks wood for the link, hope they release this type of disc for all three

[Shire Bagginz]

Yes...Both The Two Towers and The Return of the King will have the same treatment as Fellowship. Two Towers is slated for release later this year. If your interested in all the details about these complete recordings and to talk with other crazy LOTR music fanatics like myself, go to...

http://www.moviemusic.com/mb/Forum1/HTML/013609.html

[Jeff Hayat]

Heh, I dunno about the rest of you, but my favorite clip (not an entire cue) is on the soundtrack - not the extended complete reocrdings, and therefore not in the film.

Wanna guess as to what it is? :D

[Shire Bagginz]

Would you be talking about "The Prophecy"? That was originally intended for the prologue sequence, but the film makers decided to change it, so Shore wrote new material.

Whats really cool though is that the choir motif heard at around 1:27 - 2:11 was recorded again and used in Return of the King during the Nazgul attack on Minis Tirith. If you listen to "The Fields of Pelennor" off the ROTK OST starting at 1:47 you can hear the similarities. The variation in ROTK is much more powerful and threatening, as the scene requires.

You might also be talking about the choir part in "The Great River" when Galadriel gives Frodo the Light of Elendil, which is heard in the theatrical edition. That part was changed because that whole scene was extended by about 3 or 4 minutes, so Shore again wrote new material (the man is truly genious). Although I really liked the original choir part from the theatrical, I like the new choir part even more.

[Jeff Hayat]

Would you be talking about "The Prophecy"?

Good call, but no - I am talking about track 5 - 'The Black Rider', from 1:28 > 1:37.

Cheers.