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by: Howard Shore

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Average Rating: Rating: - The path to Mount Doom gets darker... I was surprised when Howard Shore's score for "The Fellowship of the Ring" won the Oscar. I am not saying that it wasn't deserving, but I didn't think it had much of a chance given the competition. On "The Two Towers," Shore's music has taken a turn for the somber. This is not the same music from his first undertaking. From the opening, "Foundations of Stone," the CD begins with a very "The Empire Strikes Back" tone with its choral section, more Wagner opera than John Williams. It gives the impression that this installment in the trilogy is going to be rife with overwhelming odds, epic battles, and impending doom. The score for the first film had a very bright disposition. It allowed one to smell the fields of green grass and hear the rivers rolling over rocky beds near the Shire. By the time you get to the beginning of "The Riders of Rohan," you feel like heavy losses have already felt by the good guys at some epic battle; however, the brightest musical component of the score is the second half of "Rohan:" the introduction of a new theme. The theme echoes of loss, but the potential for hope still lingers. The strings (I think by a collection of fiddles) is simply beautiful and melodic, similar to the sad solo vocal at the end of "The Bridge of Khazad Dum" on the first movie's score, indicating a painful moment of loss in the story. Considering the CD begins with what sounds like a huge crash of steel and armor, it is little surprise that many of the pieces are dense, intense, and incremental in scope. The moments of silence are oft abruptly broken by loud, crashing cymbals or powerful vocal accompaniment. "The Uruk-Hai" alows the rich horn fanfare of the first movie's main theme to meet its sibling theme for "The Two Towers," showing the definite kinship. Every track has a pressing, onimous sadness, be it subtle like "Evenstar" or blatant as in the lamentable "Gollum's Song." I originally gave this 3 stars, but as I wrote, I realized that this is NOT worse than the first score. It is just a lot darker, laden with images of rainy, muddy paths, looming threatening clouds, and the outbreak of grand war on the horizon. The whole score swells with a sense of epic scale, full of horns and large string sections. I think that this score is an excellent compliment to the first. Playing the two side-by-side, you can actually feel yourself on the journey to destroy the Ring, inching closer to Mount Doom...and the darkness that awaits. Rating: - Best Film Score for a Sequel Ever I must salute Howard Shore's skills as a film composer. His score for "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" sounds more like a Romantic symphonic tone poem composed by the likes of Liszt and Strauss than a modern film score. As a work of music it flows much better, with more urgency and tension than in his score for "Fellowship of the Ring". Although there are memorable quotations from the "Fellowship of the Ring" score like those for the Hobbits and the Fellowship of the Ring, much of the score is new, with a heroic theme for the Riders of Rohan and a dark, brooding motif for Gollum. Once more Shore does an excellent job combining the London Philharmonic Orchestra's musicians with choirs and vocal soloists. Without question this is among the finest film scores I've heard in recent memory and surely the best ever for a sequel, easily eclipsing John Williams' brilliant score for "The Empire Strikes Back". Rating: - Howard Shore does it again! 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.

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