Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
John Williams' lovely and moving score for the sixth
Star Wars film brings thirty years of collaborating on George Lucas’ beyond-popular intergalactic franchise to a close. (Is this really the end of
Star Wars? Can’t Lucas and Williams work together on a prequel to these prequels? Let us hope so, and that Jar Jar Binks is nowhere near it.) As this music accompanies the most exciting
Star Wars film in many a moon, the soundtrack itself is more fun, more evil, more nasty and bumpy. Many of the heroic, anthemic themes woven throughout
Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith will necessarily be familiar to any fan of the series, from the "Imperial March" to the main theme. It’s remarkable how stirring the latter can be, no matter how many times you’ve heard it, and even for those who do not have all their money invested in
S.W. memorabilia. There is a lot of new music here, and the lush, extensive range of both Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra is on display, most notably in the menacing, percolating "General Grievous" and the rousing "New Hope" end theme.
--Mike McGonigal
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Customer Review:
Williams at his Best!
The soundtrack for the latest Star Wars Movies has most certainly met my expectations and more. It fits perfectly with the mood and sets the right tone for each scene. The songs "Battle of the Heros" and "ANakin vs. Obi-Wan" Are some of the most spectacular battle themes I have ever heard. WHile others such as "ANakin's Betrayal" "Padme's Destiny" and, my favorite, "The IMmolation Scene" WIll have you sobbing. WIth breathtaking, gorgeous music this is most certainly a MUST HAVE for any music collectors. 10 Stars!
Not great themes, but another show of Williams' mastery
I usually listen to classical music. So I was tempted to listen to some soundtracks from SW, perhaps triyng to link my devotion to entertainment movies and Wagnerian musical sagas. This is the first CD of SW I have, and very good.
To begin with, the DVD is the perfect introduction to the saga.
What about the music? Well, if you want fresh, new materials across the entire cd, you may be a little disapointed. But a great composer shows his mastery even when he is (a bit) uninspired.
Are there great themes such as the main title, the emperor's, Leia's, across the stars's, Anakin`s ... No. what we find here is a sort of not so stellar material. perhaps the most striking at first is "battle of heroes" but the thematic cell seems short, with not much development. That track is great, but because he introduces other motifs.
the themes about grevieus are the worst. Too "fight" music, too incidental, too boring (esp track "Gral grivius"). What about using past themes???
Come on, listen to Wagner's Ring: many themes are used and reused. the marvel is not always to create new themes but to transform and reuse the old ones in a new, creative way. If you, once in your life, listen to Bach's Mass in B or "Christmas oratorio" and you like them, you will know he, the greatest western composer, uses old themes many times. And in new, great ways.
Certainly Williams uses old themes, too, across the six films eg with the "Force(?)" theme (the one familiar that is heard right at the beggining after the fanfares of the opening, the one that mixes with the funeral music at the end, the one that appears in a masterly fashion in "battle of the heroes" sung by choir). The same theme, but always saying different things in different contexts. This is what makes a composer great, not only just "melodic creativity".
I see that the album may not reflect the film music, but is valuable as a cd per se. There is unity across the score. Basically, the atmosphere is double. Is about war. And is about sadness and darkness. The tracks are distributed strategically to reflect this double axis. That's why it does not follow the film order. As a whole, then, structural coherence prevails. What I find as a failure is that, even though the composer does not repeat itself never inside this album. several tracks are "incidental" music: the ones about grivius in particular. And I have to acquire a taste for "enter lord vader". But "anakin dark deeds" is monumental.
In short, a very competent work, with many great moments and several not as great. I like the way he introduces previously known themes. This is not a failure, just an opportunity to show how great a composer he is.
What about the funeral music? Isn't sad seeing the chosen one, the one who would bring balance to the force, seen for the first time in the cronological order of time with the famous dark clothes?
What abour the final pasticcio of A new Hope? Of course he needed to make a reference to the future, to Hope (after one the most gripping cds ever to have been composed in the whole history of music) with motifs about the twin sisters. And the fanfare and march of ANH at the end od the end credits? Remember this is the last moment of the last SW score. The most monumental film project about entertainment (Lord of the rings movies, long as they are, are just 3 films)has just finished. Lucas and Williams at last completed their task (although in the net there are script for new episodes VII, VIII & IX ... but I think this will be another's responsability). Don't you think this deserves some monumental music? Frankly after hearing the last chord it makes me remember similar moments in Wagner music.
Huge fan of Star Wars
I love all the soundtracks of star wars even though I get sad every time I hear the Padme's fate I want to cry all the from that song
But the soundtrack is great and the movie is great I had a blast I never got bored seeing the movie I seen it 4 times
May the force be with you always
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