Rick Wakeman - Songs of Middle Earth: Inspired by The Lord of the Rings
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Artist: Rick WakemanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-07-23
Music Label: Bmg Special Product
Soundtracks:
- The Shire
- The Old Forest
- Rivendell
- The Great River
- Lothlorien
- The Misty Mountains
- Helm's Deep
- Rohan
- Minas Truth
- The Grey Havens
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Free Music Review: Bland and uninspired
Hit: 2 Stars
This album does not seem in any way related to Middle Earth. All of the tracks seem bland and very similar to each other, there is nothing to distinguish one track from another. Having read the books many times, the areas associated with each track are significantly different. I have liked some of Wakeman's other theme albums, particularly Six Wives of Henry VIII, where each track had a distinct character. This album is not up to that standard and the tracks seem to be a mish mash of bland compositions that was thrown together and had titles slapped on them to associate them with LOTR. Given the well developed character of each area in LOTR, I would have expected tracks with distinct character, much as Holst's Planets compositions each have very distinct characters that strongly evoke the character being portrayed. Not so the tracks on this album, they evoked only boredom in this listener.
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