Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
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Free Music Notes for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Free Music Review: A New beginning, and a musical Adventure
Hit: 5 Stars
It's Very hard to believe that eight years ago we hadn't visited Hogwarts but along came Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and we were swept away. Then in 2001 we were raptured at the first film installment of Harry's current six year cronicle (1 year left). Now we are pleased as we have a new film and a new score which I'm about to review:
1. The Story Continues (5/5) The Story Continues indeed, and what a fantastic Score to open up the forth soundtrack installment. And Doyle even manages a tweak of 'Hedwigs Theme' Fantastic!
2. Frank Dies (5/5) This is a farily chilling theme. You can almost feel the snake slither across the floor. You can feel the fright and horror at Frank when he sees voldemort just when he is killed (sorry about the spoiler but the track's name gives it away anyway) Well done Doyle!
3. The Quiddich World Cup (5/5) At first i was very dissapointed about this track when i saw the length. I suppose I was expecting a 6 minute track dovoted to Quiddich. But then I saw a clip of the cup (I didn't watch it I skimmed) and realized it was a short scene. So be warned Quiddich Fans who haven't seen the film or the clip that it is short. But the music is VERY well done!
4. The Dark Mark (5/5) Imagine yourself coming home from a sports event happy then Havoc breaks out and a murderer is free. Those are the feelings Harry and his friends have when they see the Dark Mark. This track does a well job of capturing this scene from the book. You can just imagine the havoc!
5. Foreign Visitors Arrive (5/5) Very Majestic. A type of reliefing feeling reaches you as Harry is safe for now. The First part of this track is obviously dedicated to Arrival of Durmstrang and the Second Beauxbatons.
6. The Goblet of Fire (3/5) This isn't my favorite track. In a way it gives off a cup of distiny feel but perhaps this is a credits score....but as i Listen I can feel Dumbledore's anger as Harry's name comes out of the Goblet of Fire.
7. Rita Skeeter (5/5) This track seems a bit...jumpy humourous capturning kind of make's you laugh even though you know Rita Skeeter is CRUEL!
8. Sirius Fire (3/5) This track starts off a bit sad but oddly a bit creepy. I can hear Sirius warning Harry about Kakaroff and Harry worrying. This track is definatly kicking off the dark feeling again.
9. Harry See's Dragons (5/5) (Another spoiler track! Anyone who hasn't read the books don't read this!) It's odd. In the middle of the night Harry sneaks with Hagrid to see something. It's the dragons! You can just imagine the horror Harry feels once he learns the first task involves Dragons! I wonder though if Charlie Weasley is in this scene in the film....Good track though!
10. Golden Egg (5/5) I do wish the beginning of this track was used for the beginning of the Quiddich World Cup. I also wish that the Quiddich World Cup had gotten this long to last. This track is 06:11 long. Get ready for a type of Chase! As confirmed this film takes the book's First task and expands it to a task! I haven't seen the film, but it is sure to be frightning. Good Music though!
11. Neville's Waltz (5/5) Wonderful track!! After the excitement of the Golden Egg this track is quite nice and refreshing! I would have to say this is WAY more of a Waltz then 'Aunt Marge's waltz' from the POA Score. Very nice track!
12. Harry in Winter (5/5) Fantastically Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! This track certainly captures the magic of Cho Chang, Harry's first crush! Again Beautiful I love this track!
13. Potter Waltz (3/5) Not my favorite dance track. I prefer the above. I suppose it's representing perhaps Harry's clumsiness when he dances. This one is a bit like Rita Skeeter but Waltz style. At least that's what I think of when I listen to it!
14. Underwater Secrets (5/5) This track is a type of build up to the second task. The first part reminds me of Hawiai! The Merpeople seems to be a bit creepy. The Beauty of the voice's of the Merpeople are innocent but by the looks of the trailer them themselves are NOT! Very well done Doyle!
15. The Black Lake (5/5) Imagine being underwater with a bunch of Mermaids or something. Imagine perhaps treatened by the Merpeople and their tritens! Definaltly scary! This track definatly captures that! A cold lake with black Fog! But joy is eruppted as Harry's saves all the 'Things to be missed'!
16. Hogwarts March (2&1/2 /5) This is perhaps our last Rita Skeeter type track but it's not very well done. Seems to be more a credits track more then anything. Not the best track!
17. The Maze (5/5) Seems like only two or so tracks ago we were caught up in the exciting of the Second Task now we're caught dead in the third. This track is WAY MORE spooky! The darkest of all three tasks! Imagine being in a Maze! A make with spiders, Spxies, and oh my gosh so much horror! Well done Doyle for that excellent track!
18. Voldemort (5/5) If you though the chills ended with Frank dies well you are SO wrong! Voldemort arrises a quite Frightning track! Not only that but it is SO LONG! A whopping 09:39! Including Piori Incuntartum! It is a Quite good Song! Very Nice! Captures the fright of Voldemort!
19. Cedric (5/5) Another Beautiful track. But so sad! If you've seen the film/ read the books then you know why! I'm not spoiling this! This my friends is a VERY BEAUTIFUL TRACK!
20. Another Year Ends (5/5) Ah...and so we come to the end of the Film Score. NO this is not the last track but it is the last piece of music that is in the film. The Rest are in the credits. And by the way this is a wonderful track. You can feel Harry going on the train.... We can only look foward to the fifth Film Score! And away the train goes and goodbye Harry Potter for another year.....
I'm not going to worry about the last four as they don't go in the film really...except for the last three which are rock songs by the Weird Sisters. And so my fellow listners another Potter Score complete and by the way he did a GREAT job. Bravo to Patrick Doyle and his score for 'Harry potter and the Goblet of Fire'
Overall Mark: 91/100 = 91% Not Bad for a Harry Potter Score with a new Composer! Excellent Job Patrick Doyle!!
Free Music Review: He's no John Williams, but Doyle fills his shoes with grace
Hit: 5 Stars
I admit, I was nervous for more than one reason when I entered the movie theater for HP 4. This book was my long-standing favorite of the series (now tied with 6), so the film itself had quite some work to do in my opinion to do is justice. However, I was also quite nervous for the soundtrack would not be done by John Williams, as the first three had. I'd heard Patrick Doyle's work before, and knew I liked it, but the HP themes written by Williams are so much a part of the feel of HP ("Hedwig's Theme") that it wouldn't be the same without them. And imagine my surprise when during the opening credits the hints of Williams' work were already there, "Hedwig's Theme" encorporated into it. Stylistically, HP 3's sountrack was a breakout success (think the amazing "Knight Bus" track); totally and completely different from the first 2 and now this one as well, but it was also a different kind of HP movie...the only one without a major touch of Voldemort for example. However, in capturing the movie, Doyle has done a fantastic job. The soundtrack begins, as I stated before with the opening credits, which contain Williams' "Hedwig's Theme", but is much darker than before, which sets the stage for the feel of the film immediately. Not only that, but the fact that immediately following the credits, a death is witnessed, captured by "Frank Dies". However, the tone quickly changes with the enticingly beautiful "The Quidditch World Cup," with it's gorgeous strings and hauntingly deep percusion sections that make it one of the stand-out songs of the sountrack in my opinion. In "Foreign Visitors Arrive" we hear more of "Hedwig's Theme" as well as the flowing string arrangements that signal the arrival of the foreign students to Hogwarts. "Rita Skeeter" encapulates the sly, almost playful (but in a dasterdly annoying way) nature of the prying journalist that lends the track its name. "Harry in Winter" is a moving piece which seems to have sucked into itself all of the brooding nature that has become a part of Harry now that the series has moved into the teen years. "Death of Cedric," however, is by far the most moving piece of the sountrack, with the ability to move a listener (including myself) to tears with no visuals or vocals at all. "The Maze" captures the uncertainty and darkness that is soon to befall all four of the champions, and "Voldemort," the longest piece of the soundtrack does an incredible job as the backdrop to the most anticipated, and somewhat feared, scene of the HP world, the return of Tom Riddle, Lord Voldemort. After the se tracks, the soundtrack winds itself down with the typical moving, all encompassing pieces, "Another Year Ends" and "Hogwarts Hymn," which must now do the job of fitting together all of the feelings and emotions that the moviegoer now feels having seen the entire movie (fear, sadness, angst, anticipation, etc) into something all its own. The final three tracks are the Weird Sister songs played at the Yule Ball. In my opinion they are a good example of the music that would be found at a dance for British teenagers (I am not one myself, but I have heard some of the British exports here in America, as well as reading on what the actors themselves listen to). Also, in their quirkiness, the magical nature of the HP world is captured. Why would the Wizarding World listen to just any old muggle music?
You'll find yourself getting lost in the music, the tracks blending together beautifully (this fact being helped by the Weird Sisters' tracks being placed at the end).
All in all, Patrick Doyle has given us a fantastic body of work worthy of being linked to this wonderful world and worthy of being heard outside of the movie itself as well.
Free Music Review: Patrick Doyle's Danny Elfman stylized Soundtrack is simply "Brilliant"
Hit: 5 Stars
I must be honest, when I first heard this soundtrack - I was amazed by how dramatically reduced the Home score of Harry Potter has become. I know people are angry and are writing quite nasty reviews about it - and I would've been just one of those people as well if I decided to write a review sooner. But the nevertheless, I believe, that once they (if they decide to) give it another go-around then they'll end up loving it just as much as I do now - especially if they found it, like me, that the opening track "The Story Continues" reminds me very much of the ingenious eccentric young composer Danny Elfman.
Patrick Doyle's complete rearrangement and redoing of the score for Harry Potter is shocking, yes - and I can perfectly understand how some people would hate him for it. It would be like Star War's opening theme completely changed by a new composer for the series (fortunately that didn't happen). Here we find a fantastic opening theme, where it reminds me so of Danny Elfman's cooky style (only with a different rotation of instruments). Not far from the initial cue, we get into the beautiful and powerful infamous Harry Potter theme John Williams has given us - used with more fancier tone of strings than did William's children's fantasy. Overall, I wish I could say more - complementing the completely redone "Voldemort" theme (I think it's a fine suite for Ralph Fiennes's role), to the excellent chorus in "Underwater Secrets / Moaning Myrtle's Move" that was nicely taken from the book, plus the excellent job Patrick Doyle did with using the new composition to slowly introduce and replace the old theme - in reprise to the way John Williams was almost trying to replace or "add to" his own theme in Prisoner of Azkaban (Window to the Past / Finale) while here it's Patrick Doyle's COMPLETE introduction and replacement with "Harry Potter's Love / Harry's Winter" and the new Freshman year theme arrangement in "Hogwart's Hymn" - (After all Year 4 does correspond to 9th grade for us Americans) - and at last, the nice touch of Freshman Prom (if there ever was such a thing) corresponding to the Harry Potter World's Yule Ball is given an excellent contribution by leading singers of Pulp and Radiohead and more! The Weird Sisters, rock on!
Overall, the new score is simply a perfect musical metaphor to growing up - and instills and matches the feeling you get when you move to a new place, or enter a new phase of your adolescent that's quite the big and confusing step. Don't let the fancy string and violins work fool you as some Classical inspiration - look past that - and you get an Elfman class piece, eccentric but absolutely feasible with the twisting themes of the story that's growing up so fast.
Free Music Review: Matches the triumph of the movie
Hit: 5 Stars
I buy a soundtrack when I'm sitting enthralled by a movie but keep perking my ears for the music. That's why I bought this soundtrack. I know my John Williams, and I could tell without being told that he had not done the score. While Williams has created the most memorable themes in movie history (even my sixth graers who were born in the nineties know "Superman" and "Star Wars" when they hear them), I haven't heard this kind of passion from him since "Jurassic Park." Patrick Doyle has done wonders during a time when, honestly, soundtracks fail to be fun anymore, with rare exceptions ("Lord of the Rings").
If you search for the movies Doyle has composed music for, you'll find a common thread--"Henry V" (1989); "Great Expectations"; "Quest For Camelot"; "Hamlet" (1996); "Much Ado About Nothing." His resume is, for me, what makes him perfect as the scorer of the latest Potter music. Witchcraft and wizardry will always be linked with the ancient, and the medievel, and you can hear that style in this soundtrack, and it lends a timelessness and greater sense of maturity to the movie.
Because the movie itself has so many dark moments, much of the soundtrack is that way as well. The beginning track "The Story Continues" sets the stage for recurring themes that have their origins in Doyle, not Williams. He slips in more heaviness in tracks like "The Quidditch World Cup" for the arrival of the Bulgarians, but we can't overlook the whimsy of the start of the same track, which heralds the Irish. There is exquisite beauty in "Harry in Winter" and its theme finds its way into "Hogwarts' March." "Neville's Waltz" and "Potter Waltz" provide more relief from the darkness; however, tracks like "Golden Egg" and "Voldemort" manage wonderful transitions from light to dark and vice versa.
It seems that the majority of listeners enjoyed the soundtrack from the last movie; I can't comment on that, as I have not heard it, nor the two that came before it. I was never moved during the movie to purchase them, the way I was with GOF. Perhaps it is just that I am partial to the grandeur of music that is made to fit all the marvels of things of a time past. But isn't that what the Harry Potter books do, too? A mixture of ancient spells and wisdom with modern day inventions and slang. Doyle, it is evident, understands that synthesis.
A last note: each track is separate, which is indeed nice when you like a beginning and end to your music. There was a small trend in soundtracks for a while, like that of "Gladiator," in which all the tracks ran together, and it was annoying. Nothing to worry about here.
Free Music Review: Patrick Doyle Strikes Gold
Hit: 5 Stars
Unlike many, when I first heard that John Williams was replaced for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I didn't mind in the least. The truth is that John Williams isn't as great as people make him out to be. Don't get me wrong, he definitely is a great composer, but he gets the spotlight way too much, and other composers who are as good (if not better) but simply different get shoved to the side. I enjoyed Williams' Potter scores, even if I didn't think they were as magical and coherent as they could have been (with the first two films I blame that on the director, and with the third I blame it on the album arrangement), but I still thought they were very good. So I was very open-minded to hear what Patrick Doyle would bring us, having heard little of him but having loved what I heard.
At first, this soundtrack struck me as a little flat. After the second listen I decided that I had been temporarily deaf--this strikes gold in a way that Williams had never done. Given, in a way, he was never given a chance to do this--Columbus was too cheesy, Cauron too subtle (but still brilliant) to really work with this kind of material--but the fact remains that Doyle has crafted the first truly incredible large-budget accomplishment of his career.
The soundtrack, unlike the other three, moves chronologically through the film, and skips the attempt at concert suites. For this reason, some may not pick up on the themes upon first listen. I haven't seen the film so I can't say for sure, but I'll briefly outline what I believe to be the two major themes of this score:
Harry's Theme - Begins with a nice majestic treatment in "Foreign Visitors Arrive," then moves through various modes: a tender flute in "Harry Sees Dragons," a bold, heroic statement at the end of "Golden Egg" and "The Black Lake," and evolved into a tender love theme in "Harry In Winter."
Voldemort's Theme - Simple, but effective. Its basically a six note ascending theme. Its heard too many times to count, so I won't even try.
There are many other gorgeous themes, motifs, and rhythms in this score that makes it a very rich and complete listening experience. The only detriment of the album is having the songs at the end. I certainly think they will be appropriate for the Ball, but putting them at the end of the album kills the somber mood at the end, and in addition the lyrics are way too cheesy. I'm not particularly fond of the style, either.
In the end, Doyle's score reigns supreme. Here's to hoping he'll be kept for Order of the Phoenix in 2007.