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Howard Shore - The Two Towers The Complete Recordings (2002) DVD-A rip - 24-bit/48kHz - Stereo and 5.1 Surround

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Howard Shore - The Two Towers The Complete Recordings (2002) DVD-A rip - 24-bit/48kHz - Stereo and 5.1 Surround

Howard Shore - The Fellowship Of The Ring The Complete Recordings (2001)
DVD-A rip in 24-bit/48kHz | FLAC (5% Recovery) | no cue or log | RS + FileFactory
4500 MB (5.1) or 2050 MB (2.0) | Artwork | Soundtrack | 2002

Ripped from the DVD-Audio portion of this amazing set. The DVD-A side of the DVD offers both STEREO and 5.1 SURROUND at 24/48. That is what I offer here.


Dvdexplorer > harddrive > FLAC > Avax

These tracks are watermarked and will not play properly if you burn them to a DVD. They WILL play on a PC however.

I took screenshots of every track and included them in a separate "screenshot" archive. I also have included links to the full artwork from my previous upload.


From Amazon.com review:
"There are a couple of different ways you could approach the music of Howard Shore's complete "The Two Towers" film score. The simplest would be to just pop one of the CDs into your player, lean back and let this gorgeous music wash over you, carrying you away to Middle Earth. Or you could use the excellent 45-page program guide to help you explore the music more methodically.

As with the complete "Fellowship of the Ring", there is an excellent write-up on each of the major themes appearing in "The Two Towers". Some of the language can get pretty technical, such as this excerpt from page 29: "The keening rhaita and swelling mixed chorus return, bolstered by weighty brass writing, thicker accompanying textures, many aleatoric, and increased orchestral doublings." It was very helpful of the publisher to define "aleatoric" in a footnote. As for the rhaita, you can see a picture of it on page 41. It looks like some sort of woodwind instrument.

And that's another thing I like about the booklet: it is sprinkled with pictures of instruments, performers as well as characters and scenes from the film: Eowyn standing in front of the palace at Edoras, the wind whipping through her dress; the ents marching off to war; Merry and Pippin discovering the goodies in Saruman's flooded larder at Isengard.

For those with extensive orchestral musical training, there are little snippets of sheet music for each of the themes. Those of us who struggle with sight reading will appreciate this touch: the discussion of each theme includes a disc and track number, plus a time index, so you can hear it for yourself. Want to know what "The White Rider (In Nature)" sounds like? Try Disc One, Track 13, index 2:11. Very nice, especially if your player lets you scan tracks in a hurry.

Another item of interest is the section entitled "Nine Notes to Rule Them All" on page 24. It seems that the number nine plays a prominent role in the music of "The Lord of the Rings".

One thing I would have liked to have seen were lyrics to the songs, especially the ones in Old English. But at 45 pages, I suppose the program guide was already getting pretty bulky. Reference is made to a book called "The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films" as well as a tie-in web site, where we can learn more about the choral texts.

If you had asked me just a month ago what my all-time favorite film score was, I would cheerfully have answered "The Star Wars saga, all six movies". Indeed, the techniques composer John Williams used there resemble those for Howard Shore's "Lord of the Rings" score to a great degree. Both are based on something called "leitmotif", pioneered in the 19th-century by the likes of Richard Wagner and Carl Maria von Weber, wherein various characters, places and ideas have distinctive musical themes. There are motifs for the Fellowship, Eowyn, Gollum, Mordor, Rohan and the hobbits – more than 80 in all, I've read.

A master composer can weave these themes together skillfully to convey different moods, to the point that it's possible to follow the plot of the story just by listening to the complete score. I can do this both with "Star Wars - A New Hope" and with "The Fellowship of the Ring". Because of the complexity of the music for "The Two Towers", I'll need to study it more thoroughly first, but even as I'm writing this I'm following the basic plot points. At this very moment, Gollum and Smeagol ("Stinker" and "Slinker") are having that wonderful "schizoid" self-conversation, where the Smeagol personality temporarily gains the upper hand ("Leave now, and never come back!") And now a gleefully cackling Smeagol is bringing the "nice hobbits" a brace of coneys, just before the Mumakil show up."


From allmusic
Review by William Ruhlmann
"When it opened in theaters, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ran one minute short of three hours; the subsequent DVD version added another 44 minutes. An even greater increase is seen here. The single-disc soundtrack album that was released initially crossed the 70-minute threshold, but this expansion, following a similar one for the first installment in the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, adds much more material. In fact, at three hours, eight minutes, and 44 seconds, it goes on longer than the theatrical version of the movie itself and contains some music not actually heard in the film. Also included is a 45-page booklet featuring extensive liner notes by Doug Adams going into great detail, with sheet music examples, about composer Howard Shore's approach to writing music for the epic story. Much of the music is extrapolated from themes created for the first movie, but this score is more various, appropriate to a film in which the protagonists split into different groups and pursue separate adventures for much of the screen time. While there are light, even-toned sections, there is also much dramatic, stirring music, in keeping with a film that, after tracing the complicated fantasy plot, settles at its conclusion into a structure familiar from many Westerns – in effect, the Indians attack the fort, and the cavalry saves the day. After that resolution, however, the overarching quest for the ring remains, and the score concludes with Björk sound-alike Emiliana Torrini plaintively singing "Gollum's Song," which expresses hopelessness. It's a downbeat ending that looks forward to the resolution of the story told in the final film."


Tracklisting (and how to divide them into cds if you want to convert):
Disc: 1
1. Glamdring
2. Elven Rope
3. Lost in Emyn Muil
4. My Precious
5. Ugluk's Warriors
6. The Three Hunters
7. The Banishment of Éomer
8. Night Camp
9. The Plains of Rohan
10. Fangorn
11. The Dead Marshes
12. "Wraiths on Wings"
13. Gandalf the White
14. The Dreams of Trees
15. The Heir of Numenor
16. Ent-Draught

Disc: 2
1. Edoras
2. The Court of Meduseld
3. Theoden King
4. The King's Decision
5. Exodus from Edoras
6. The Forests of Ithilian
7. One of the Dunedain
8. The Wolves of Isengard
9. Refuge at Helm's Deep
10. The Voice of Saruman
11. Arwen's Fate
12. The Story Foretold
13. Sons of the Steward
14. Rock and Pool
15. Faramir's Good Council
16. The King's Decision
17. Exodus From Edoras
18. The Forests of Ithilian
19. One of the Dunedain (Featuring 'Evenstar')
20. The Wolves of Isengard
21. Refuge at Helm's Deep
22. The Voice of Saruman
23. Arwen's Fate (Featuring 'The Grace of the Valar')
24. The Story Foretold
25. Rock and Pool
26. Faramir's Good Council

Disc: 3
1. Aragorn's Return
2. War Is Upon Us
3. "Where Is the Horse and the Rider?"
4. The Host of the Eldar
5. The Battle of the Hornburg
6. The Breach of the Deeping Wall
7. The Entmoot Decides
8. Retreat
9. Master Peregrin's Plan
10. The Last March of the Ents
11. The Nazgûl Attack
12. Théodon Rides Forth
13. The Tales That Really Matter
14. "Long Ways to Go Yet"
15. Master Peregrin's Plan
16. The Last March Of The Ents
17. The Nazgûl Attack
18. Théodon Rides Forth
19. The Tales That Really Matter
20. 'Long Ways To Go Yet' (Featuring 'Gollum's Song')

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