leeallen01

Very excited.

So we're likely not getting the 32 track version.

Ouch, what an awful list.

Some returning themes! Lovely to hear. 5:05 - Like you say, emotional mystery is such a good description of JNH, specifically his string writing. It always has feeling behind it, but sounds otherworldly.

No, millions of people had covid too, the last few years, and they also lost their taste. Kabooooooom! Deeestroyed

Making my way through it now. A few pieces in. Quite subdued so far. Nicely calming.

I wonder what score version it is... If not expanded in any way, then hopefully it's at least the extended score we already have, not the shorter version with the Weekend song.

Fair enough. I haven't heard the score yet. Waiting for full pieces. Only listened to the main title sample. I want to hear the full pieces first.

Judging scores immediately on first listen with no context or time to process is always going to make it less impressive than one you've had years with and context. Love the sound so far. The main theme sample is Newmanlike in places.

40 pieces! Wow. Long. Unless they're all 30 seconds. I'm hoping it's a more smaller score in sound, as the description suggests. Of course we'll get massive dramatic moments, but hopefully the core of the score is HG 1 style where JNH was nicely minimal and it felt really personal.

It's exciting to find out where Franglen's career will go now. He is clearly intending to score all of Avatar, but I wonder what other opportunities he will get. He's another champion of melody and dedicated to developing themes throughout, so I hope he gets some great projects.

I just love being able to sit and listen in peace to the entire album. There are many times when I just want a calm experience with music, but have to keep changing and switching pieces if I truly want that. With this, I get to sit for over an hour and be connected to so many of JNH's masterworks and have no worries.

This Album... lord have mercy. I mean - 3:22... come on!

Listening my way through now. Very slowly as I can't resist just replaying every piece over and over again as I go. It might be my own projected thoughts onto the music, but to me I really hear the difference in Hilary Hahn. E.g. in the original score, she works perfectly as an innocent musical voice, as JNH described it as a mirroring with Bryce Dallas Howard; both being young women giving the voice to Ivy. But now as Hahn is 20 years older, I listen to her pieces differently. She feels like she's playing a 40 year old Ivy's voice in some kind of sequel to the Village. I can easily imagine current Bryce and Joaquin with a big family of lots of kids running around, still living in the Village today. It's wonderful.

Man, this album... Whenever I stumble upon listening to anything Lady in the Water for example, it just has an instant weird relaxing effect. Those descending strings of the theme are so perfectly calming, and it says so much so simply; it's mysterious, flowing, serene, and still has an edge of darkness. I might re-number all the tracks in order of film release for my listening continuity.

I have seen several social media posts and media comments suggesting he's really trying to continue with a 4th season. As are all the rest of the cast and crew.

I heard it did quite well on hulu and disney+ but not sure. It was top 10 for a long time in viewers. I think it wont get a 4th season with Disney, simply because Disney are losing so much money with streaming and their theatrical movies are losing so much too.

I've been waiting for this album all my life. Speechless.

I am still in awe of the season 3 score.

True. For general films in concert it's definitely majority normies who don't care about the score really, they're just doing a special expensive cinema trip, but I was surprised with LOTR last week. I heard many conversations and comments around me of people talking about very in-depth LOTR stuff, such as the extended edition differences and general comments about the power of the music etc. I was surprised that when Aragorn kicks the helmet and shouts, there was a noticable chuckle of laughter around the Royal Albert Hall crowd, which showed they really know their stuff about LOTR in general and all the behind the scenes DVD stuff (because as we all know, Viggo broke his toe kicking the helmet).

I was surprised how quiet the sound effects were for The Two Towers concert. They were very low. Only the dialogue was featured.

Snap I wanted to be right next to the orchestra so I could just watch them. Everyone around me had their necks twisted looking up at the screen from a horrible angle. I'm not kidding when I say that the only times I looked at the screen were when they stopped playing music for a few seconds here and there haha. I always think that if I wanted to watch the film, I'd do it at home. I'm there for the orchestra.

I would actually love to have a small, calm, minimal Zimmer reimagining of his scores. One of my favourites from him is his piano theme for Clark in Man of Steel. So delicate and powerful. I could imagine his other big scores being interesting with the same treatment.

Yeah, imagine if this inspires him and others to do more like this. A Howard Shore piano focused LOTR. (Considering piano is the least used instrument in all of his Middle Earth material) A Williams full Jazz re-telling of his favourite themes.

Hahaha I'm going insane because I can't actually believe we are getting this! Are you bloody kidding me? It's like JNH asked me personally what I'd love to have from him and he just said "sure, no probs."