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The Lord.. Rings:..Two Towers | 
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| Artist: Soundtracks & Original Casts
Label: Warner Bros
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 21.99
Buy New: CDN$ 14.17
You Save: CDN$ 7.82 (36%)
New (17) Used (8) from CDN$ 7.71
Rating:  186 reviews
Sales Rank: 7636
Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 48379
UPC: 093624837923
EAN: 0093624837923
ASIN: B00007BH5C
Release Date: December 10, 2002
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW - Shipped within 24 hrs via Airmail from the USA - Average 5 to 10 workdays delivery time. Excellent customer service. NEUF - Envoy? par avion des USA sous 24 hrs - Livraison en moyenne de 5 a 10 jours ouvres. Service clientele en francais.
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 Firbidden Pool | | • | Breath Of Life - featuring Sheila Chandra | | • | The Hornburg | | • | Forth Earlingas - featuring Ben Del Maestro | | • | Isengard Unleashed - featuring Elizabeth Fraser & Ben Del Maestro | | • | Samwise The Brave | | • | Gollum's Song - performed by Emiliana Torrini |
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From Amazon.com
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 Bjoerkish, postmodern angst by Emiliana Torrini, and helps punctuate the story's modern sense of allegory. --Jerry McCulley
Chronique amazon.fr
Apres le succes public et critique de La Communaute de l'Anneau, Howard Shore se devait de persister dans sa vaste et sombre fresque pour chœur et orchestre, qui puise sa substance dans l'univers olympien de J.R.R Tolkien et se fond dans le visuel titanesque de Peter Jackson. Mieux encore, le compositeur s'eleve un cran au-dessus, affinant son orchestration et amplifiant ses contrastes pour devoiler le ciment de son œuvre. Les faiblesses du premier volet (theme de la Communaute, carences rythmiques…) s'effacent au profit d'une texture toujours aussi massive et tenebreuse, mais plus forte en nuances et en dynamiques, plus axee vers la sublimation que l'illustration. Le Seigneur des Anneaux selon Howard Shore se revele enfin comme un trilogie majeure, un corps unique qui tire son energie du chaos et s'illumine de suaves melopees mystiques. Les Deux Tours fusionne le primitif et le merveilleux, navigue entre le Bien et le Mal avec une reussite qui promet un final d'anthologie. --Jean-Christophe Arlon
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| Customer Reviews: Read 181 more reviews...
 Will leave you speechless December 19, 2005
Jennifer (Ontario, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This soundtrack is everything the movie is - a rollar coaster of very powerful emotions that leave you constantly wondering what will happen next. "The King of the Golden Hall" left shivers with the beautiful violin solo followed by a powerful back up by the brass section. The music reinforces the powerful picture painted by the movie.
absolutely beautiful July 17, 2004
cxd (Pennsylvania)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is some of the most beautiful music ever composed for a film or otherwise. "Gollum's Song" is probably the most heartbraking piece of music I have ever heard. It sums up his sorry existence perfectly - "where once was light, darkness falls". The vocal by Emiliana Torrini is wonderful. I cannot recommend this CD high enough!!
Let's talk about the Music June 21, 2004
S. Brown (La Mesa, CA United States)
There are probably over a thousand reviews for the movies, but let's talk about the music of the movies.I have to say that of all the movies, this soundtrack is the best of all three. The haunting string melodies, powerful trumpet melodies, and moving context of the music as a whole is wonderful. I don't normally buy soundtrack scores. But, this is one of the few in my collection. This is a wonderful collection of music.
Stunning!!! May 18, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the most stunning CD's I have ever had the privilage to listen to!
Being an avid Tolkien fan since I was five years old, I was as happy as a lady could be when the soundtracks came out.
From the exciting opening number to the calm and tear-jerking ending, this breathtaking CD captures every essence of Tolkien's magical world, from it's darkest and deepest pits of horror (illustrated beautifully by THE PASSAGE OF THE MARSHES) to the most pure and uplifting Elven music (EVENSTAR), to the complete despair of the entire quest (THE LEAVE TAKING and THE FORBIDDEN POOL) to the unbelievably powerful victory music of ISENGARD UNLEASHED and FORTH EORLINGAS, to the almost disturbing sadness of GOLLUM'S SONG, this CD is a masterpiece!
Awesome..... May 12, 2004
I have heard all three of the movie soundtracks and they are all amazing. Howard Shore is a great composer. You can reinact all the movies in your mind by hearing these wonderful soundtracks. Great Movies. Great Soundtracks.
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