Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers OST CD FLAC 2002 FORSAKEN

FORSAKEN Proudly Presents

Artist: Howard Shore
Album: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Label: Warner Bros
Genre: Soundtrack
Source: CD
Street Date: 2002-12-10
Quality: 655 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Encoder: FLAC 1.2.1
Size: 359.87 MB
Time: 72:37 min

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1. Foundations of Stone 3:51
2. The Taming of Smeagol 2:48
3. The Riders of Rohan 4:05
4. The Passage of the Marshes 2:46
5. The Uruk-hai 2:58
6. The King of the Golden Hall 3:49
7. The Black Gate is Closed 3:17
8. Evenstar (feat. Isabel Bayrakdarian) 3:15
9. The White Rider 2:28
10. Treebeard 2:43
11. The Leave Taking 3:41
12. Helm's Deep 3:53
13. The Forbidden Pool 5:27
14. Breath of Life (feat. Sheila Chandra) 5:07
15. The Hornburg 4:36
16. Forth Eorlingas (feat. Ben del Maestro) 3:15
17. Isengard Unleashed (feat. Elizabeth Fraser & Ben del Maestro) 5:01
18. Samwise the Brave 3:46
19. Gollum's Song (feat. Emil ana Torrini) 5:51

Like the second installment of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings
trilogy, Howard Shore's score is big, bold, dark, and majestic
This is fitting as the movie is more action-oriented than the
first, The Fellowship of the Rings, which -- necessarily -- spent
more time on exposition and character development. It's also a
good value for the money, as it features over 70 minutes of
music, both instrumentals and vocal tracks (concentrated on the
second half of the disc). These include "Evenstar" with the
Canadian Opera Company's Isabel Bayrakdarian (who also
contributed to Mychael Danna's Ararat soundtrack), "Breath of
Life" with Sheila Chandra (formerly of Monsoon), "Forth
Eorlingas" with Ben Del Maestro, "Isengard Unleashed" with Del
Maestro and Elizabeth Fraser (the Cocteau Twins), and "Gollum's
Song" with Emiliana Torrini. The latter is a British vocalist of
Icelandic and Italian extraction, who has worked with Tears for
Fears' Roland Orzabal and Iceland's Gus Gus. "Gollum's Song" is a
tribute, of sorts, to the half-CGI, half-actor-created character
(Andy Serkis provided his distinctive voice and physical
movements) who handily walks away with the film. The affecting
song ("We are lost/We can never go home", which plays during the
end credits, was written by Jackson's wife, Fran Walsh, and sets
things up nicely for The Return of the King, the final book in
J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy. Despite the critical and commercial
success of The Two Towers, the strong orchestral work, and the
more inspired selection of vocalists, the soundtrack was not
nominated for an Oscar, whereas Shore took home the gold
statuette (his first) for his work on The Fellowship of the
Rings