Lord of the Rings: Complete Trilogy

RRP £27.99 Lowest New Price £17.98

Warner Release date: Monday 15th of December 2003 Format: Box set, Enhanced, Soundtrack, Number of discs: 3 Disc 1 Tracks: 1. The Prophecy - One Ring To Rule Them 2. Concerning Hobbits 3. The Shawdow Of The Past 4. The Treason Of Isengard 5. The Black Rider 6. At The Sign Of The Prancing Pony 7. A Knife In The Dark 8. Flight To The Ford 9. Many Meetings 10. The Council Of Elrond / Featuring Aniron 11. The Ring Goes South 12. A Journey In The Dark 13. The Bridge Of Khazad Dum 14. Lothlorien 15. The Great River 16. Amon Hen 17. The Breaking Of The Fellowship 18. May It Be - Featuring Enya Disc 2 Tracks: 1. Fountains Of Stone 2. The Taming Of Smeagol 3. The Riders Of Rohan 4. The Passage Of The Marshes 5. The Uruk-Hai 6. The King Of The Golden Hall 7. The Black Gate Is Closed 8. Evenstar - Featuring Isabel Bayradkarian 9. The White Rider 10. Treebeard 11. The Leave Taking 12. Helm's Deep 13. The Forbidden Pool 14. Breath Of Life - Featuring Sheila Chandra 15. Thr Hornburg 16. Forth Eorlingas - Featuring Ben Del Maestro 17. Isengard Unleashed - Featuring Elizabeth Freaser & Bend Del Maestro 18. Samwise The Brave 19. Gollum's Song - Performed by Emilia Torrini Disc 3 Tracks: 1. A Storm Is Coming 2. Hope And Memory 3. Minas Trith - Featuring Ben Del Maestro 4. The White Tree 5. The Steward Of Gondor - Featuring Billy Boyd 6. Minas Morgul 7. The Ride Of The Rohirrim 8. Twilight And Shadow - Featuring Renee Fleming 9. Cirith Ungol 10. Anduril 11. Shelob's Lair 12. Ash And Smoke 13. The Fields Of The Pelennor 14. Hope Fails 15. The Black Gate Opens - Featuring Sir James Galway 16. The End Of All Things - Featuring Renee Fleming 17. The Return Of The King - Featuring Sir James Galway Viggo Mortensen & Renee Fleming 18. The Grey Havens - Featuring Sir James Galway 19. Into The West - Performed By Annie Lennox Publishers: Warner

RRP: £27.99
Music at a Master level
Review date: 2008-06-12 Rating: 10 out of 10

I purchased these CDs individually as and when they were originally released. I have to say that the Fellowship of the Ring is my favourite, by the way. However, I also bought the extremely deluxe 4 disc (or in the case of ROTK, 5 disc) sets when the 'complete' scores were released (also worth buying, despite their price). One thing the 'complete' scores don't have is the first track from FOTR - "The Prophecy" (though parts of it exist in the 'complete' score). If you're a soundtrack enthusiast, then small variations or alternate takes presented here in the 'limited' 1-disc releases will interest you. In The Two Towers, for example, you here different mixes and end of cues not heard in the 'complete' scores, the same stands for Return of the King. And if like many, you think the LOTR is a bit too long to sit and watch in one sitting, then this one disc-a-film release (basically a third of the music Howard Shore composed) will suit you nicely, though really you're missing a lot of gems that are to be found in the 'Complete Recordings', also available on Amazon.
Great listening for great filmmaking.