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Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Audio CD
Disk ID: 2034756
Disk length: 1h 15m 54s (20 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2003
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. A Storm is Coming | 2:52 |
| 2. Hope and Memory | 1:45 |
| 3. Minas Tirith | 3:37 |
| 4. The White Tree | 3:25 |
| 5. The Steward of Gondor | 3:53 |
| 6. Minas Morgul | 1:58 |
| 7. The Ride of the Rohirrim | 2:08 |
| 8. Twilight and Shadow | 3:30 |
| 9. Cirith Ungol | 1:44 |
| 10. Andúril | 2:35 |
| 11. Shelob's Lair | 4:07 |
| 12. Ash and Smoke | 3:25 |
| 13. The Fields of the Pelennor | 3:26 |
| 14. Hope Fails | 2:20 |
| 15. The Black Gate Opens | 4:01 |
| 16. The End of All Things | 5:12 |
| 17. The Return of the King | 10:14 |
| 18. The Grey Havens | 5:59 |
| 19. Into the West | 8:19 |
| 20. - Data - | 1:14 |
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Review
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. --Jerry McCulleyThe regular jewel-case version will contain one of seven collectors' cards.
Other Versions
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Tracks: 20, Disk length: 1h 15m 52s (-1m 58s)
Tracks: 19 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 12m 43s (-4m 49s)
Tracks: 18 (-2 tracks), Disk length: 1h 6m 18s (-10m 24s)
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