Howard Shore, Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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Artist: Howard Shore, Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-12-10
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Foundations Of Stone
- The Taming Of Smeagol
- The Riders Of Rohan
- The Passage Of The Marshes
- The Uruk-hai
- The King Of The Golden Hall
- The Black Gate Is Closed
- Evenstar - featuring Isabel Bayrakdarian
- The White Rider
- Treebeard
- The Leave Taking
- Helm's Deep
- The Forbidden Pool
- Breath Of Life - featuring Sheila Chandra
- The Hornburg
- Forth Eorlingas - featuring Ben Del Maestro
- Isengard Unleashed - featuring Elizabeth Fraser & Ben Del Maestro
- Samwise The Brave
- Gollum's Song - performed by Emiliana Torrini
Music reviews of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Music Review: Great music.
Rating: 5 Stars
I love listening to the LoTR soundtracks. Howard Shore is a masterful composer and this CD is great. If my LoTR music wasn't on my MP3 player, I'd probably would have damaged the CDs by now with how frequently I listen to this music.
Description of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Howard Shore's music for the massively successful first film chapter of Tolkien's Ring saga won him the Oscar? for Best Original Score, something of a surprise given the music's ambitious scale and determinedly dark overtones, factors that handily blurred the line between typical film fantasy music and accomplished concert work. Its sequel takes the same, often Wagnerian-scaled dramatic tack, following the film's story line into even more brooding and ominous dark corners. The previous film's Hobbit-inspired pastoralism is supplanted here by rich ethnic textures that expand the musical scope of Middle-earth and the World of Men; the Hardanger, a Norwegian fiddle, represents the Rohan and the North African rhaita colors the Mordor theme, while log drums, dilruba, wood xylophone, and cimbalon add intriguing textures elsewhere. The score's looming orchestral clouds are brightened by Shore's masterful choral writing, which infuses ancient liturgical influences with various solo turns by Isabel Bayrakdarian, indie-pop star Sheila Chandra, Ben Del Maestro, and Elizabeth Fraser. "Gollum's Song," the composer's concluding collaboration with lyricist Fran Walsh, is delivered with Bj?rkish, postmodern angst by Emiliana Torrini, and helps punctuate the story's modern sense of allegory. --Jerry McCulleyGeneral CDs
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