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intereact!Howard Shore
Retail Price (not our price): $53.98
Release Date: 2003-12-09
Manufacturer: Warner Bros UK
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 | ||||
| 1. | The Prophecy Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 2. | Concerning Hobbits Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 3. | The Shadow of the Past Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 4. | The Treason of Isengard Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 5. | The Black Rider Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 6. | At the Sign of the Prancing Pony Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 7. | A Knife in the Dark Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 8. | Flight to the Ford Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 9. | Many Meetings Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 10. | The Council of Elrond Anmron (Theme for Aragorn and Arwen) - Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 11. | The Ring Goes South Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 12. | A Journey in the Dark Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 13. | The Bridge of Khazad Dum Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 14. | Lothlorien Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 15. | The Great River Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 16. | Amon Hen Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 17. | The Breaking of the Fellowship Edward Ross | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 18. | May It Be Enya | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| Disc 2 | ||||
| 1. | Foundations of Stone Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 2. | The Taming of Smiagol Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 3. | The Riders of Rohan Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 4. | The Passage of the Marshes Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 5. | The Uruk Hai - Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 6. | The King of the Golden Hall Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 7. | The Black Gate Is Closed Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 8. | Evenstar Isabel Bayrakdarian | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 9. | The White Rider Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 10. | Treebeard Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 11. | The Leave Taking Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 12. | Helm's Deep Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 13. | The Forbidden Pool Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 14. | Breath of Life Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 15. | The Hornburg Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 16. | Forth Eorlingas Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 17. | Isengard Unleashed Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 18. | Samwise the Brave Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 19. | Gollum's Song Emiliana Torrini | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| Disc 3 | ||||
| 1. | A Storm Is Coming Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 2. | Hope and Memory Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 3. | Minas Tirith Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 4. | The White Tree Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 5. | The Steward of Gondor Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 6. | Minas Morgul Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 7. | The Ride of the Rohirrim Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 8. | Twilight and Shadow Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 9. | Cirith Ungol Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 10. | Andzril Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 11. | Shelob's Lair Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 12. | Ash and Smoke Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 13. | The Fields of the Pelennor Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 14. | Hope Falls Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 15. | The Black Gate Opens Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 16. | The End of All Things Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 17. | The Return of the King Viggo Mortensen | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 18. | The Grey Havens Howard Shore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 19. | Into the West Annie Lennox | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Album Description
The Limited Edition 3-CD version includes the first two soundtracks (Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers) packaged in a special slipcase and comes with all 18 character cards from the trilogy.
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Sweet Deal [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This 3 CD collection contains all the standard soundtracks for Lord of the Rings. So Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King are all here, one disc each, in a box designed by Alan Lee I believe. In addition to all 3 single-disc soundtracks, you get all the 'collector' cards (sometime when a soundtrack CD for a major film event is released there are 5 or 6 different character covers you get to choose from). This release is recommended for someone who does not own any Lord of the Rings soundtrack, as you get all three in one shot for a pretty good price, or for the casual listener. For REAL fans of either Lord of the Rings or film score, I suggest looking into the the Complete Recordings as it is essentially listening to the film.2) great [Rating: 5 out of 5]
However, my favorite is the Fellowship of the Rings and if I had it to do over, I would just get the first one.3) Amazing, awe inspiring and the stuff of legends! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
What can I say that hasn't already been said about Howard Shore's magnificent score for the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy? A soundtrack can define the whole atmosphere of a film, and this fully orchestrated work certainly does that with sweep, splendor and wonder, alternately humanizing (hobbit-izing?) the characters, imbuing the landscape with magic and capturing the world-shaking impact of events of mythic proportions. And this was no easy task considering the iconoclastic status of the story and the superb quality of Peter Jackson's filmmaking. This is a truly a soundtrack for the ages--a fitting accompaniment to a film for the ages! Every aspect of life, from the extreme to the mundane, is captured in this music. Listening to it can make every remembered moment of the movie come alive again in your mind, from the most horrific battle to the smallest moment of humor or kindness. I think "The Fellowship of the Ring" is my favorite of the three "Lord of the Rings" soundtracks. I enjoy the juxtaposition of the lighter moments, like the sweet, simple hobbit theme, with the grander and more menacing sections of the music. What impressed me most as I watched "The Fellowship of the Ring" was how scary the music was when the hobbits were being pursued. Those relentless drums and eerily screaming drums made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, even though I knew the story like the back of my hand and knew for a fact that the poor little heroes would manage to escape. But the music truly made me wonder otherwise ... Now that's good composition! And the fact that the filmmakers chose to include background music in so many of the scenes, almost continuously ... well, that's just good filmmaking! The other impressive thing about Howard Shore's score is how the voicing and the repeating musical motifs tie the whole thing together, like the finest of symphonies. In "The Two Towers" all the familiar themes from the first sound track return, reinvented as need be to link the films together while adapting to new developments in the action and the story. In this album, I particularly like the hardanger fiddle-infused theme for the Rohirrim, the Viking-like horse-riders of the steppes, and the ponderous, quirky music for Treebeard, the walking, talking tree. I would have enjoyed a bit more of these distinctive elements, which lend levity and diversity to a sometimes depressing and overwhelmingly intense body of music. Here, they make all-too-brief appearances, at least from a listener's point of view. But soundtracks are ultimately slaves to the script, and in conjunction with the film itself, the timing and phrasing of Shore's music is impeccable. Mysterious, menacing, folksy or heroic, the total effect is utterly convincing and utterly transporting. The battle scenes in "Return of the King" are incredible visuals, blending live action and computer-generated imagery so seamlessly and densely that it boggles the mind. But what would they be with only screams and snorts and scuffles to give them voice? It's Shore's frenetic, string-laden, brass-filled, drum-spurred fury that truly gives them life, waxing, waning and cueing the audience as to when the greatest menace is about to threaten the war-weary heroes. The musical themes from the first two movies continue to be developed here, wending their way in and out of expanded interpretations whose dense complexity rivals that of Tolkien's story, not to mention Peter Jackson's filmmaking itself. Jackson chose well when he picked Shore as his score writer. Very, very well! Make sure to get the extended edition DVDs of the movies themselves, with hours and hours of fascinating commentaries and behind-the-scenes documentaries about the making of the films. Truly a bargain at any price! For more seminal soundtracks, try John William's defining scores for the "Star Wars" series and Basil Poledouris's spectacular score for the original "Conan the Barbarian." You can hear more hardanger fiddle music (the inspiration for the Rohan/Rohirrim themes) in the work of Scandinavian fiddler Annbjorg Lien or any of the varied releases from the NorthSide label. Finally, for authentic music from bygone ages, why not try the real thing? There are many fine early music groups out there. Here's just a sampling: Anonymous 4 (pure-voiced sacred chant by four women), The Baltimore Consort (jaunty popular music from the Renaissance), David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London (simply perfection), Christian Mendoze's Musica Antiqua (lively, percussive Renaissance dance music), The Toronto Consort (great variety), Ensemble Unicorn (worlds of fun!), Wolgemut (brash buzzies and bagpipes with attitude), and the magical early/folk fusion of Cantiga and Burlap Lute. Have some fun with them and live your own fantasy!4) Surprise Stress Reliever [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This soundtrack is absolutely awsome! I had heard pieces of it, but did not listen to all of it until this past May. I ended up with two of my best friends sitting on our high school stage about two hours before our musical listening to this soundtrack and eating Chinese food. By the time we were finished, we had listened to a ton of the soundtrack and were probably five times calmer than we had been when we started. We ended up doing the same thing the following night, and have decided to make it a tradition.5) BIGGER AND GREATER SOUNDTRACKS EVER! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This box receives lots of music prizes, including 3 Oscars: one for LOTR, The Fellowship Of The Ring, another one for LOTR, The Return Of The King and an Oscar for Best Song for Into The West performed by Annie Lennox, featured in the late soundtrack movie! It deserves all of the prizes just because Howard Shore put ALL his heart and mind in doing such a magnificent soundtrack trilogy!I hope - as announced in 2004 - they will release a super box set with 9 CDs with ALL the music recorded for the theatrical releases of The Lord Of The Rings movies - 2 CDs for The Fellowship Of The Ring + 3 CDs for The Two Towers + 3CDs for The Return Of The King + 1 CD with rarities with comments by Howard himself...Till then let's listen to The Aviator Soundtrack and dream with The King Kong soundtrack that Howard is working on since 2004!Just to remember how good and great and magnificent this trilogy soundtrack (and movies) are... here, some of the names that sing and play in it:Howard Shore with The London Symphony Orchestra, Enya (almost an Oscar for May It Be), Elizabeth fraser of The Cocteau Twins, Hillary Summers, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Sheila Chandra, Emiliana Torrini, Ben Del Maestro, Renée Fleming, Sir James Galway, Billy Boyd, Viggo Mortensen, Annie Lennox, and lots of other musicians and choirs from England and New Zealand!Thank you very much Howard Shore for this memorable, universal and unforgettable music!