The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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Free Music Review: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Hit: 5 Stars
Howard Shore's exceptional work on The Fellowship of the Ring is continued to an even more grandiose effect in The Two Towers. My favourite track, "Foundations Of Stone" is a strident track that is both exciting and inspiring. The felloship theme used in the previous score is again heard in "The Taming Of Smeagol" and "The Riders Of Rohan" is a moving piece that plays very softly without being sentimental. "Passage Of The Marshes" is a somewhat unsettling but well-crafted track that plays the themes of that traverse throughout the film. "The Uruk-hai" is a familiar theme, with the low percussions and strong resonant tones which are as memorable as they are intimidating. "The King Of The Golden Hall" is a very strong piece with the Rohan theme played quietly. Other highlights include "Treebeard", "Helm's Deep", "The Hornburg" and "Isengard Unleashed". Emiliana Torrini's haunting, beautiful "Gollum's Song" and Farewell To Lorien finish the CD off nicely. Like the great composers (Williams, Fellini.[fill in) Shore's music works well outside the film. The foldout sleeve with notes is nice too. I can't wait for the soundtrack for Return of the King.Free Music Review: The Next Chapter To the Successful Trilogy
Hit: 5 Stars
"Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Sdtk." is great music to signify the next chapter to a highly successful trilogy. Oscar winner Howard Shore wrote this score beautifully. To keep the theme throughout every chapter, this score revisits some pieces from "The Fellowship of the Ring", namely "Foundations of Stone" and "The Uruk-hai". Every song blends perfectly with every movie event that it's accompanying. Whenever it's war, love, fear, or struggle, the compositions remain at the fullest potential. They are great for listening, even without the movie. Every musical note has the intensity to force listeners to feel it in their hearts. "Gollum's Song", performed by Emiliana Torrini, is a great song to end the album. Her voice is beautiful. "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Sdtk." is a great album for those looking for a deeper movie connection. This is sure to please many listeners as certain compositions will become classics in the following years. Movie fans should also buy the soundtracks of the other two chapters: "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Return of the King". Such listening combination makes a great musical journey.Free Music Review: Gollum's Song - no loyal friend was ever there for me
Hit: 5 Stars
Yes, this review is five years late, but there's so much depth to the Lord of the Rings movies, they remain a prime source of entertainment. I have always loved movie soundtracks, and recently acquired all three LOTR theatrical soundtrack CDs, which brings me to "Gollum's Song", the last track on the Two Towers CD.
I never paid much attention to the movies ending credit music until I got the Two Towers CD, which allowed me to really hear Gollum's Song for the first time. What a unique and haunting piece of music. It perfectly bridges Gollum's tragic history and future, and is a metaphor for all who make terrible unreversable choices in their lives.
Fran Walsh wrote the bleak yet Tolkienesque lyrics, which were then scored in a sublime Howard Shore LOTR theme. But no words can aptly describe Emiliana Torinni's vocals. Her fearless interpretation of Gollum's descent into despair blows away the other two LOTR movie-ending songs. If Emiliana never finds material this good again, she can always be proud of this one searing performance, and we can be grateful for the world-class talents that came together in its creation.
Free Music Review: Howard Shore does it again!
Hit: 5 Stars
This movie soundtrack stands as a work of art on its own, taking themes from the 2001 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings and expanding, deepening, and blending them into different musical themes appropriate to the story line of The Two Towers. Familiar tunes from FotR such as the hobbit theme, prologue themes, fellowship theme, Anduin river theme, Moria orc theme, and Lothlorien themes are a basis. Mixed in are completely new melody lines and instruments -- for the Nordic-based Rohirrim, for the tree-shepherd Ents, and for Gollum, the creature who held the Ring for 500 years and still covets it. This is a masterful mix, with powerful orchestration. Several unusual instruments, including a Norwegian fiddle and wooden chimes, are used. New vocalists such as a different boy soprano Ben Del Maestro and Emiliana Torrini are featured, as well as Elizabeth Fraser who sang the Lothlorien Lament for Gandalf in the Fellowship movie.Since purchasing this CD, I haven't had it off either the car player or the computer CD. It is wonderful, and immerses you into what will be the movie experience of The Two Towers.
Free Music Review: Complex and powerful
Hit: 5 Stars
As with Howard Shore's score for "Fellowship of the Ring," this is a score that needs to be heard more than once for its richness to reveal itself. I have now listened to it for several nights in a row, and keep uncovering more complexity and texture. I can hardly wait to see how it matches up with the screen images, because, there again, the first score really showed its full power where it was meant to be heard, with the film. However, I think the second, despite its epic quality, is almost more suited to home listening than the first, and flows like a very powerful tone poem. There are moments of haunting beauty and awe-inspiring grandeur. And "Gollum's Song," at first rather a shock compared to the gentle boy soprano that ends the first film, becomes as wierdly fascinating as the character that inspires it (no, Gollum does not sing). There are just enough familiar passages to tie it in with the first score, and enough differences to make us aware that we are in new terrain and moving toward something even more powerful. This is indeed an operatic score in its sweep and passion.