The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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Free Music Review: Brilliant!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I was one of the very lucky people to get a "sneak listen" to the complete soundtrack. In the past two weeks, I have listened and re-listened to this soundtrack. My favourite track is by far Number Eight: "Evenstar". It has all the choral complexity and ethereal beauty of a Thomas Tallis composition. Very Elvish.
This wasn't, at first listening, the same Howard Shore I'd expected. Used to the "heroicism" of the Fellowship Theme, I was unprepared for the much darker tone of the TTT Soundtrack. It has a much more sombre, almost Eastern in some places, sound. However, it fits the tone of the story immensely well, and I have added it to my short-list of favourites!
The "Rohan Theme" (not actually the name of a track, but of a piece played throughout) is very enjoyable: heroic enough, with brass, but also with a very melancholy string section. It's beautiful, with an almost Celtic feel to it.
All in all, it's quite different from The Fellowship of the Ring Soundtrack, but that's as it should be. It's definitely gorgeous music, in the best form. Enjoy it!
Free Music Review: Decent Score...
Hit: 5 Stars
I first got this CD on Christmas Day as a gift and immediatly started to listen to it. The new Rohan Theme is very nice, catching into the culture of the Men. However, the score does not level up with Shore's score for the first Lord of the Rings movie. There isn't any epic-like sounding track unlike the first ones The Bridge of Khazad-Dum, A Knife in the Dark, or Amon Hen. Probably the closest one should be Forth Eorlingas and The Uruk-Hai. The track Evenstar is a very nice addition and vocalist Isabel... something, fits very well into it. Also a good track is Samwise the Brave. It sounds a bit like The Breaking of the Fellowship from the first one but adds a little twist to it.Overall, I believe that the score for The Two Towers is really good except for the fact that it doesn't sound epic enough and that Shore uses a little too much brooding music. I am not a big fan of slow brooding music so I suggest to Shore that the final score for The Return of the King, should sound a bit more like The Fellowship of the Ring. Song performer... maybe Charlotte Church could be a good one...
Free Music Review: A Superb Soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
Call me crazy if you like but this soundtrack is far better than 'The Fellowship of the Ring' soundtrack. Howard Shore seemed to place a greater emphasis on this soundtrack between the two. In fact, watching the movie after hearing the soundtrack over and over, I can see how the music definitely helps to make the second installment of these movies a better movie than the first. 'Two Towers' soundtrack has a larger sound and feel to it. It has a nice mixture of vocal and instrumental, some of which are mixed together (e.g. 'Foundations of Stone - which has a huge chorus sound). There are a lot of textures to the music, from large choruses and large orchestrated music, to simple slow moving features that allow the music to breathe, to marches and flowing strings.
I spend a lot of time tracking down soundtracks to play while I read and study. This one is one of my favorites. If you love soundtracks, and especially if you love a classical, large orchestrated sound to your soundtrack selection, then you will not want to be without this soundtrack. I highly recommend it.
Free Music Review: Now that all 3 CDs are out....
Hit: 5 Stars
I want to return here and write a belated review of this middle album. I have enjoyed TTT more this year (as we have waited for the theatrical release of the movie TROTK) than TFOTR album. This puts my opinion in the minority, I know, from what I have read: most fans enjoy the Fellowship album more than Towers. But I think it is because of the "unfinished" quality of the story in the middle. The music in this movie is simply grand: the Rohan theme is awesome and raises goose bumps: so does that violin solo (Eowyn's personal theme music, I figure). Howard Shore's genius is that he won't "chintz" on the score: he insists on creating new variations of earlier themes and adding new ones as the story brings in other elements. Having now heard the new TROTK album, I can appreciate TTT even more: because Shore did the same thing there: he elaborated on themes from this middle score and thus the whole "trilogy" of albums becomes an amazing production, worthy of appreciation on musical excellence merits alone, without even worrying about the films.Free Music Review: A Huge Music Fan!
Hit: 5 Stars
I love all three soundtracks, but I think this is the best one for songs that invokes images of Elves, and feelings of true inspiration. Track 8 is one of the most beautiful songs ever created in the world, and I listen to it endlessly. All tracks that features Rohan's theme in all it's varying forms (tracks 3, 6, 12, 15, 16) gets your heart pumping, especially as the Norwegian fiddle is playing. Tracks 11 and 14 (in edition to track 8) has the smooth, lyrical Elvish language of Sindarin sung wonderfully, and track 17 features Haldir's Lament, which is song in the High Elvish Quenya. Track 18 is as heart warming as it is bittersweet, and track 19, though it may seem out of place at first, truly describes the creature that is Gollum. Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, and 13 are all excellent as well, many of them with strong chorals and astounding orchestration. And if you can get it, the extra track 20 (Farewell to Lorien) is a fantastic extension of track 15 (The Great River) from Fellowship of the Ring. I highly recommend this album (along with the other two)!