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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King The Complete Recordings
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | Roots and Beginnings |
2 | Journey to the Cross-roads |
3 | The Road to Isengard |
4 | The Foot of Orthanc |
5 | Return to Edoras |
6 | The Chalice Passed |
7 | The Green Dragon Featuring Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan |
8 | Gollums Villainy |
9 | Éowyns Dream |
10 | The Palantír |
11 | Flight from Edoras |
12 | The Grace of Undómiel Featuring Renée Fleming |
13 | The Eyes of the White Tower |
14 | A Coronal of Silver and Gold |
15 | The Lighting of the Beacons |
Disc: 2
1 | Osgiliath Invaded Featuring Ben del Maestro |
2 | The Stairs of Cirith Ungol |
3 | Allegiance to Denethor |
4 | The Sacrifice of Faramir Featuring Billy Boyd performing The Edge of Night |
5 | The Parting of Sam and Frodo |
6 | Marshalling at Dunharrow |
7 | Andúril Flame of the West |
8 | The Passing of the Grey Company |
9 | Dwimorberg The Haunted Mountain |
10 | Master Meriadoc, Swordthain |
11 | The Paths of the Dead |
12 | The Siege of Gondor |
13 | Shelobs Lair |
14 | Merrys Simple Courage |
Disc: 3
1 | Grond The Hammer of the Underworld |
2 | Shelob the Great |
3 | The Tomb of the Stewards |
4 | The Battle of the Pelennor Fields |
5 | The Pyre of Denethor |
6 | The Mûmakil |
7 | Dernhelm in Battle |
8 | A Far Green Country |
9 | Shieldmaiden of Rohan |
10 | The Passing of Théoden |
11 | The Houses of Healing Featuring Liv Tyler |
12 | The Tower of Cirith Ungol |
13 | The Last Debate Featuring Sissel performing Asëa Aranion |
14 | The Land of Shadow |
15 | The Mouth of Sauron Featuring Sir James Galway |
16 | For Frodo Featuring Ben del Maestro |
Disc: 4
1 | Mount Doom Featuring Renée Fleming |
2 | The Crack of Doom |
3 | The Eagles Featuring Renée Fleming |
4 | The Fellowship Reunited Featuring Sir James Galway, Viggo Mortensen, and Renée Fleming |
5 | The Journey to the Grey Havens Featuring Sir James Galway |
6 | Elanor Featuring Sir James Galway |
7 | Days of the Ring Featuring Annie Lennox performing Into the West |
8 | Bilbos Song |
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Product Description
The final film in The Lord Of The Rings blockbuster trilogy features the climax of the epic journey that brought Tolkiens world before our very eyes. The Complete Recordings series featuring the soundtrack albums have been hits and award winners. Now with The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King featuring "Into The West" by Annie Lennox, this album from the series composer Howard Shore is sure to score with movie fans. For fans of The Lord Of The Rings films, and those who purchased last years The Fellowship Of The RingThe Complete Recordings and The Two TowersThe Complete Recordings, this incredible package completes a now classic set of soundtracks.
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This five-disc set caps off the "complete recordings" series, which offers extensive versions of Howard Shore's score for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The main problem lays in its being the last installment: Most of the main characters, along with their themes, have been introduced in the previous two sets, creating a certain sense of familiarity. But there is still plenty to please fans here, and then some. Though it includes the climactic trek to Mount Doom, the overall mood is less dark than in The Two Towers. The London Philharmonic Orchestra handles the heavy lifting, with help from adult and children's choirs, and well-selected guest stars. Soprano Renée Fleming, for instance, lends a particularly eerie, otherworldly touch to disc 1's "The Grace of Undómiel," and disc 4's "Mount Doom" and "The Eagles." Meanwhile, flutist James Galway provides a quasi-spiritual counterbalance, a musical ray of hope on tracks such as disc 3's "The Mouth of Sauron." And of course, Annie Lennox's Academy Awardwinning "Into the West" is here, incorporated in disc 4's "Days of the Ring." Finally, the fifth disc is a DVD-Audio that includes the score in super-duper surround sound. It may seem like overkill, but too much is never enough for LOTR fans--and besides, people buying this set are exactly the kind of people who own the type of equipment required to make disc 5 explode. Finally, the packaging includes new artwork and liner notes written by Doug Adams, an expert on the music from LOTR. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 6 x 6 x 2 inches; 15.2 ounces
- Manufacturer : Reprise / Wea
- Original Release Date : 2007
- Date First Available : September 28, 2007
- Label : Reprise / Wea
- ASIN : B000V6BE6M
- Number of discs : 5
- Best Sellers Rank: #245,454 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
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I would argue for this being the greatest score ever written for a film sequel, except that technically it isn't. Peter Jackson set out to produce a single, gigantic epic, which he then broke into three parts for convenience. In much the same way, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote the original novel half a century ago but split it into the familiar trio. Thus, when Howard Shore was asked to create the music, he had the luxury of thinking in terms of the whole trilogy, and began to lay the groundwork in "The Fellowship of the Ring" right from the beginning. This gave him a tremendous advantage over, say, John Williams, who was at the mercy of George Lucas coming up with a new Star Wars script every few years. He had to make up the music as he went along.
According to the "making of the music" video in the extended DVD version of "Fellowship", Shore knew from the outset that he wanted to create an opera. If you read the excellent notes which come with the music boxed sets for all three movies, you'll know that he heavily employed a 19th century technique called "leitmotif", wherein every character of note, and every place, gets its own theme, and all of these melodies are skillfully woven together. By "The Return of the King", all the pieces were in place for the grand climax of the epic.
The beauty of this composing technique is that I could sit there with my eyes closed, and follow the progression of the movie. Certain visions and bits of dialog would pop into my mind. I could see Deagol plunge into the water and lose hold of his fishing pole, only to find the Ring embedded in the mire instead -- to his undoing. Or how about when the treasonous Saruman is standing atop Orthanc, up to his old tricks, trying to sow dissent among the ranks of his opponents? Or that wonderful extended scene where Sam and Frodo see the sun shining for one last, forlorn moment upon a floral crown atop the fallen head of a Gondorian statue at the Cross-Roads?
My favorite track of all is "The Lighting of the Beacons". I've seen that scene probably three times more often than the rest of the movie in its entirety, and the music plays a huge part of that. Another good one is "Osgilliath Invaded", which features boy soprano Ben del Maestro's ethereal voice soaring above Pelennor Fields, figuratively speaking, as Gandalf rides forth from Minas Tirith, light streaming from his staff, to dispel the Nazgul on their fell beasts and thus rescue Faramir's band.
And, of course, there is the whole sequence of Sam and Frodo on the side of Mount Doom: "Then let's be rid of it, once and for all. I can't carry it for you, but I can carry YOU!"
If you've watched the "making of" videos for the extended "Return of the King" DVD, you may recall that Annie Lennox was working on a second recording, called, I think, "Live for the Day", but this never made it into the movie. I was kind of hoping maybe they'd slip it into the boxed set, alongside "Into the West", but no dice. They did, however, include something just as nice: "Bilbo's Song". I listened to it twice, feeling utterly haunted by the melody. What a great way to finish the journey.
As with the other two boxed sets, the packaging is very attractive. I have a minor complaint about the CD pegs being a hair too tight, but no matter. Be aware, too, that the DVD is two-sided, which means there is no label side to absorb grease from one's hand inadvertently brushing across it. It's happened to me a couple of times already. That also means being extra careful when you twist the DVD off its rubbery peg, lest you get fingerprints on the surface.
The notes for all three movies keep referring to a book called "The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films". I hope this becomes available sooner rather than later. There are very nice PDF booklets available for download giving a track-by-track discussion of the music in all three films -- but this would mean listening to the music in front of my computer. And that isn't always practical. Perhaps it's time to invest in a nice color printer.
But why spend any more time reading this, when you could be listening to the music instead? It was well worth the price for me. Go for it!
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Después, descubrí esta joya. No tiene una hora, no, tiene TODA la música de toda la película: casi 4 horas de música (3:49:15 exactamente).
Además, la caja en la que viene es espectacular, con decoración que simula un libro antiguo. El libreto no tiene desperdicio.
Está integramente en inglés (no existe versión en español que yo sepa), pero es totalmente recomendable aún si no sabes inglés.
Imprescindible, junto con sus homólogas de La Comunidad del Anillo y Las Dos Torres .
Aber als ich zum ersten Mal die Musik zu Hause hörte stand für mich eines fest: Ich geb diese Box nie wieder her! Natürlich sind die Hauptthemen auf den knappen CDs vorhanden aber was mir wirklich missfiel war die Tatsache, dass man im Prinzip jedes Thema 2-3 Minuten hörte....und dann war es auch schon vorbei, die Höhepunkte waren zwar da, aber alles andere war immer so kurz und knapp, sodass das alles nur auf diesen einen Höhepunkt des Themas hinauslief- um dann schon zu enden.
Viele Stellen im Film, an denen ich mir immer dachte "Geile Musik" kamen nicht auf die normale Version, da man ja nicht einfach einzelne Bestandteile der Musik aus einer Szene herausschneiden und dann mit den verwandten Themen aus ganz anderen Szenen zusammenschneiden kann. Aber ganze Sequenzen zu nehmen ist auch meist nicht möglich gewesen, da sich die Themen ja auch sehr abwechseln und man plötzlich nicht mehr auf den Pelennorschlachtfeldern, sondern wieder bei Frodo und Sam ist und eine anderes Thema übernimmt die Hintergrundmusik-->passt dann wohlim Beispiel nicht allzu sehr zum Titel "Forth Eorlingas". Besonders gefällt mir hierbei also, dass es nunmal fließende Übergänge gibt und nicht jedes Thema in sich abgeschlossen in 3 Minuten abgearbeitet wird, sondern sich alles immer wieder abwechselt, wie im Film selbst.
Da hier wirklich der ganze Film auf 4 CDs (und einer DVD nochmal alles im Surround)geboten wird, hat man hier natürlich die Originallänge des Sounds. Und vor allem wenn man die Musik der Schlachtszenen, aber auch die Übergänge zu den ruhigen Themen, wie es zum Schluss ja aufkommt, hört, ist es wirklich atemberaubend. Es kommt wirklich dieses "Herr der Ringe-Feeling" auf. Irgendwo logisch, nicht umsonst sind es hier fast 4 Stunden, die man zu hören bekommt.
Über die Themen der Musik selbst möchte ich nicht zuviele Worte verlieren. Jeder, der es in Betracht zieht, sich diese Box zuzulegen, wird die brilliante Musik schon kennen und sie auch ohne den Film genießen wollen. Das einzige was es zu sagen gibt ist, dass die Abmischung teilweise wirklich besser gelungen ist als auf der normalen Version. Aber ich habe es bisher noch nicht an allzu vielen Stellen bemerkt, nur bei genauestem Hinhören. Vielleicht ändert sich das ja noch.
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Für mich als großen Herr der Ringe- und auch Soundtrack-Liebhaber ist diese Box, die übrigens auch sehr schön und liebevoll aufgemacht ist, mehr oder weniger ein muss. Ich schreckte immer nur vor dem hohen Preis zurück und weil ich mich fragte, ob sich ein solcher Kauf auch wirklich so lohnen würde.
Ich habe es dann ja irgendwann doch gewagt, weil ich fortan zusah, wie die Lager bei Amazon sich leerten..., sodass ich zuletzt nur die Boxen vom 2. und 3. Film kaufen konnte, weil die vom 1. auf Gedeih und Verderb nirgendwo mehr erhältlich ist (zu einem bezahlbaren Preis)und scheinbar auch ich eine der letzten Boxen zu "Return of the King" erwischt habe, da sich das Lager mit "sofort lieferbar" schnell leerte.
Aber wie ich meine Frage schon oben beantwortete: Lohnt sich der Preis? "ENTSCHIEDEN JA!" Eine solche Soundtrack Version würde ich mir für viele Filme wünschen..allerdings auch auf einem niedrigeren Preisniveau...
Der Kauf lohnt sich jedoch wirklich und der Soundtrack ist absolut genial, einer der besten die ich je gehört habe, wenn nicht sogar der beste...der Beste für den besten Film, der meiner Meinung nach jemals auf die Leinwand gebracht wurde.
5 Sterne! Mehr gibt es nicht zu sagen.