John Williams, William Ross - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Free Music Review: The best soundtrack i'v ever heard
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my favorite C.D. The prologue is better than the sorcerers stone prologue it is mostly where Ron comes with a flying car 4\5Fawkes the phoinex is great because it is a nice and calm but it does have some loud music 4\5
The chamber of secrets is very loud and it is one of my favorites 5\5
Gilderoy Lochart has the fame thing going on and it is not that great 3\5
The Flying car is awsome it is one of my favorites 5\5
Knockturn ally is a wierd creepy song and i don't like it 3\5
Introducing Golin is O.K. it is mostly when malfoy calls Hermionie a mudblood 3\5
The deling club does have some tence moments but then it dies down 4\5
I love Dobby The House Elf it realy reminds you of dobby 5\5
I'm all over the spiders and it is one of my favorite songs and I bet it will be yours too 5\5
Moaning Myrtle is spooky it reminds you of all of the ghosts in Hogwarts 3\5
Meeting Aragog is good but the spiders is better 4\5
Fawkes Is Reborn is one of my favorite songs 5\5
Meeting Tom Riddle is boring in the beggining but good in the end 4\5
Cornish pixies is pretty action packed 4\5
Polyjuice Potion starts out in Borgin And Burkes then it is the Polyjuice Potion 4\5
Cakes for crabbe and goyle starts out with cakes for crabbe and goyle and than it is when justin and nick get petrified 4\5
Dueling the basilisk is the best song on the whole C.D. it has action packed written all over it 5\5
Renunion of friends is a very good song it is a longer version of leaving Hogwarts 5\5
Harr's Woundrous World is awsome it is from the sorcerers stone exept with a better ending 5\5
Free Music Review: Both Williams make this score a success
Hit: 5 Stars
After being nominated for an Academy Award for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, John Williams returns once again to score Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, which I think is a better score than the first. Brought in to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra, due to John Williams caught up in other projects is William Ross who is also a great film composer. Some of the music from the first score is brought back, but a lot of the music is brand new. Harry's theme is brought back and is present in "Prologue and The Escape From the Dursley's" and "Harry's Wondrous World", and other tracks which quote his theme in various places. One of the new themes added is the theme for Fawkes, which is an outstanding theme that reminds me a little of Home Alone. It is heard in "Fawkes the Phoenix" (the best track on the album), "Fawkes Is Reborn", and "Dueling the Basilisk". The other theme that occurs is found in "Gilderoy Lockhart" and "The Dueling Club", which is very similar to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Another theme was found throughout that reminded me a lot of Hook. The recording is top notch as well as the LSO and voices performances. This should receive a nomination for the next Oscar, which will probably end up competing with Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. We'll see! In the mean time, get this score as it is even better than the first one.Free Music Review: A lot better than the Sorcerer's Stone!
Hit: 5 Stars
I love this soundtrack! And I thought it was a lot better than Sorcerer's Stone. The best songs on the c.d. are "The Prologue, Fawkes the Phoenix, The Chamber of Secrets, The Flying Car, Dobby the House elf, The Spiders, Dueling the Basilisk, and Harry's Wonderous World.""The Prologue" is kind of like a mix of a lot of songs off of Sorcerer's Stone put together.
"Fawkes the Phoenix" is easily the most beautiful song off the soundtrack. It starts out really soft and then builds and builds.
"The Chamber of Secrets" is the darkest song. It seems to let you know that this movie is a lot darker. And I liked how they did this spooky part on the organ, it was great.
"The Flying Car" is most fun to listen too. I love this song!
"Dobby the House Elf" sounds very Dobby-ish. And like "Fawkes and the Phoenix," this song starts out soft and then builds as it goes on.
"The Spiders" is so cool! You can really imagine spiders crawling along when you listen to this song.
"Dueling the Basilisk" is my favorite out of the whole soundtrack. It's really action packed and it's really fun to listen to.
"Harry's Wonderous World" is also on the first soundtrack, but this song is kind of different on the second soundtrack. It sounds better.
Overall... this is a great soundtrack and you should buy it!
Free Music Review: Absolutely Amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
Like the Chamber of Secrets Movie, this soundtrack may be a sequel, but it is new and refreshing in its own right. While adapting music from the first soundtrack in 'Prologue', 'Harry's Wondorous World', parts of 'Meeting Tom Riddle', and 'Reunion of Freinds', it is the new material that distinguishes this album. 'Fawkes the Phoenix' is perhaps the best Williams theme I have heard since ET's 'Flying Theme'. With sweeping strings, and powerful winds and brass, it is a beautiful theme that can't help but uplift the listener. 'The Chamber of Secrets' is a menacing tune that incorporates the feelings of unease and fear very well to the movie's theme. 'The Spiders' and 'Meeting Aragog' start out with a chilling descending motif that makes the skin crawl with the visualization of the eight legged monsters. 'Fawkes is Reborn' revisits the 'Fawkes the Phoenix' theme, but is now slowed and is given more developement in the middle, without hearing the rousing full orchestra rendtion of the original 'Fawkes' theme until the very end of the track. Better than the first soundtrack in my opinion, highlighted by the miraculous 'Fawkes the Phoenix'. The only thing I could have asked for more was a full 'Hedwigs Theme' from the first soundtrack reappearance like 'Harry's Wondorous World', but it is still an imporvement on already classic themes.Free Music Review: Fawkes the Phoenix: A Triumph!
Hit: 5 Stars
I imagine that the art of scoring a film is quite different than writing for a symphony orchestra with its hall audience: the musical movements must fit the story, and for film, must be resolve rather quickly as each scene of the film passes by quickly (especially in Harry Potter). Williams, aside from near plagiaristic sequences of music similar to Holst and, should I say it, his own Star Wars soundtracks, has nonetheless produced a second soundtrack that is better than the original. Fawkes the Phoenix is a hopeful, gradually intensifying piece of melody that is one of the most briliant pieces of music I have ever heard. It is woven throughout the soundtrack through other familiar themes and sequences that appear in the first Harry Potter soundtrack, but is unique and different from them. I really like Williams' use of his strings, and this soundtrack puts them to the test a bit more than average a la Stravinsky. I recommend this soundtrack for its many moods and ability to make sense as a coherent whole. Kudos to Williams again. I wonder if I'll recognize any sequences in any other pieces of music. Will I? I hope not.