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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE
TWO TOWERS
THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS SET FOR RELEASE November 7, 2006 Available For The First Time! Howard Shores complete Grammy-winning score for
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, from the epic film trilogy The Lord of
the Rings, will be available in a deluxe four-disc edition from Reprise/WMG
Soundtracks on November 7, 2006.
This historic release contains over 180 minutes of
music on three CDs, comprising the full score of the 2002 film, composed by
Howard Shore. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Complete Recordings
marks the second edition of the three complete recording releases of the film
trilogy whose score has been honored with three Academy Awards, four Grammy
Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, and which has sold over 6 million copies
worldwide. This deluxe set also includes exclusive new artwork, packaging,
extensive liner notes written by Doug Adams, and Gollums Song performed by
Emiliana Torrini.
Composed for symphony orchestra and choir, The Lord
of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Complete Recordings was performed by London
Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Voices, The London Oratory School Schola
featuring vocal performances by Emiliana Torrini, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Sheila
Chandra, Elizabeth Fraser, Ben Del Maestro and cast member Miranda Otto.
The fourth disc is a DVD-Audio presenting the
entire The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Complete Recordings in 5.1
Surround Sound.
The boxed set for the complete recordings of the first film, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Complete Recordings, was released on December 13, 2005. It spent months in Amazon.coms top 100 Sales Ranking, and garnered some of the best reviews of the year. For fans of any of The Lord of the Rings films, The Fellowship of the Ring/Complete Recordings is an essential experience, Heather Phares, All Music Guide. The Complete Recordings is last years most important archival soundtrack
release, expanding and preserving one of the finest and most significant recent
scores in all of film music. Shores Lord Of The Rings trilogy is an operatic
symphony that is among the finest musical accomplishments of the last
half-century. The plethora of unreleased material on this beautifully packaged
edition is mouth-watering at the least, and the sonic dynamic achieved on the
surround sound DVD of the entire 180-minute score is simply astonishing.
Randall Larson, Music From the Movies
Composer of over sixty-five film scores, Howard
Shore brought a lifetime of experience to creating the epochal soundtrack for
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Shore used Tolkien's texts and drew from
multiple periods throughout music history to evoke the books enchanted worlds.
He developed over 80 leitmotifs to describe the cultures of Middle-earth.
Collaborating with authors/lyrists Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, he composed
choral music utilizing the Tolkien-created languages for the Elves (Quenya and
Sindarin), the Dwarves (Khuzdûl), Men (Adûnaic) and the evil cultures of Mordor
(Black Speech). For Rohan, all the choral text was set in Old
English.
In 2003, working with conductor John Mauceri, Shore
created The Lord of the Rings Symphony, a two-hour 6 movement concert piece
drawing from the nearly 12 hours of music he composed for Peter Jacksons
landmark film trilogy. This piece features a full symphony orchestra, adult and
children's choirs, as well as solo instrumentalists and vocalists, totaling more
than 200 musicians on stage. Since its debut in November 2003 in Wellington, New
Zealand, The Lord of the Rings Symphony has been performed in sold-out concerts
on four continents and in some of the worlds most legendary venues, including
Londons Royal Albert Hall, Moscows Kremlin Palace Theater and Sydneys Opera
House. Some of the worlds leading international orchestras including the
Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony and
London Philharmonic have performed The Lord of the Rings Symphony in addition
to regional orchestras across the United States, and this past July, the
symphony celebrated its 100th performance by the San Francisco
Symphony.
The UKs Classic FM voted The Lord of the Rings
soundtracks the Best Film Score of All Time for five consecutive years. Shores
other impressive film credits include Martin Scorseses The Aviator (Golden
Globe Award), David Finchers Se7en and Panic Room, Jonathan Demmes The Silence
of the Lambs and Philadelphia, and 11 films with David Cronenberg including A
History of Violence and Spider. Shore is currently writing an opera based on his
film collaboration with Cronenberg, The Fly, commissioned for the Los Angeles
Opera, and he is also completing work on his fifth collaboration with Martin
Scorsese, The Departed, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson,
Martin Sheen and Mark Wahlberg.
Says Shore of his time on The Lord of the Rings, Everybody felt that we were working on something important. It was a film that welcomed the intensity of our efforts. As much as we put into it, it showed us more. It was endlessly revealing working on The Lord of the Rings. For more information, contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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