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  1. tannhauser
    I think the development of the main motif from the first movement is great in the second movement, which has some exquisitely beautiful writing throughout. My first impression is that the third movement is the weakest, but I need to give it a few more listens. I'd like to hear this conducted by Ludwig Wicki or Shore himself.
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    Half the concerto? It's got all 3 movements, 28 minutes duration. It's a long time since I've looked at the score and don't have it to hand, but I'm pretty sure it's all there. I'm also pretty sure it's the same recording as was featured in the "Composer's Dream" documentary. What do you mean exactly?
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    Here's the link to the album http://www.hd-hall.com/music/detail/?id=35 Translating every page as you go along: 1. Click Download Album 2. Create an account 3. login and click download album 4. You will be told you have insufficient allowance 5. Click buy a new package 6. Buy the Experience Pack for 6.99 Yuan (gives you 700 mb) 7. Repeat step 6. 8. Now you have enough storage to download the album. 9. Enjoy!
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    In fact - the whole album, containing Shore's concerto paired with Rachmaninov's 2nd, is available to download from that site for the princely sum of about £1.50. It's a slightly confusing system, you can purchase two lots of 700mb credit (6.99 yuan each) which will give you enough "surplus flow" to download the album. I'm downloading now, but it's wretchedly slow. 6 hours remaining!
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    Hey folks, Haven't been round here for a long time, but thought I'd pop my head up to alert you to this wonderful find. The second movement from Lang Lang's recording of Shore's piano concerto "Ruin and Memory" is available in great quality from this site http://www.hd-hall.com/music/detail?id=144#?and it's absolutely gorgeous. A nice teaser for the full release which will hopefully see the light of day sometime! Enjoy!
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    I suppose if the AUJ album contains Shores original versions of cues, they're complete from his point of view.
  7. tannhauser
    So now the Mouth of Shore is collecting questions for Shore on twitter. Pizza-related queries seem to be verboten.
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    I'm guessing you mean "one" of the only. Because I like the Tauriel and Leggy shot outside too. But yes, DoS never felt like I was watching a Middle-Earth movie, and this is largely due to its look. Nah, the only one. Nothing about any other location they go feels real at all to me. Not even this? Because that's one of the actual real shots in the film!! And no bloom either! Bloom is standing right there!
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    Surely the curse of the NDA's will be lifted after the third film (or possibly EE) is released? Doug has always hinted that there will be loads to talk about.
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    Are you even serious right now? It's not a curiosity on the OST; it's the main theme of the score, playing throughout the entire program!I meant that it was included as a draft/alternate/early version call it what you will. Much like the alternate radagast music, and other alternate ideas. They tried out a lot of things in the early sessions and the album was a chance to present more music that had been created during the process. For the final score the decision was obviously made to use the shire theme for bilbo, and that's what they've gone with subsequently.
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    I can't believe that 2 years on, people are still pining away for some alternate unused bilbo theme that clearly isn't part of these films and was only included on the album as a curiosity of sorts. "Bilbo's theme" is the Shire theme.
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    http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2014/12/01/95354-a-clip-from-the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies-features-bilbo-gandalf-and-thranduil/ Here's another clip. Nice shire statement on French horn, and subtle allusion to the ring.
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    The house of Durin statement that opens sons of durin sounds almost identical to the statement from the finale of dos (can't remember the track, think it's when thorin is on the floating wheelbarrow), with a few added drum hits. OK, I'll try to look it up. Timestamps, Mr. Inky, timestamps! It's not that I'm worried, it's just that I wish they wouldn't keep on referring to themes from LOTR that have either no reason to be here, or that are so overused that I become sick of them (like with the Shire theme). I wish the Hobbit scores really had been their own thing, with only sparse references to LOTR (the inevitable ones, like the RIvendell theme for when they arrive there, etc.). It's not a "There and Back Again" theme. It's just the A-phrase of the fellowship theme. The melodic shape of the phrase happens to go down a tone and then back to the first pitch, leading Doug to make a witty Tolkien-related allusion in passing. It's still the fellowship theme, and nothing else.
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    Wow! That was good! Love the return of the warg theme from auj in sons of Durin. And that thorins pride theme or whatever you call it returns after being absent in dos! Nice little quote of the fellowship theme, must be something to do with legolas.
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    The most interesting part of that article was that Shore is writing a guitar concerto! The Hobbit scores are good, but I really want to hear that!
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    Gotta be soon now.
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    I prefer the 8th symphony.
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    Dvorak beats Shore every time.
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    This is true, but his compositional process involves writing a barebones counterpoint, very much the music itself, before he decides what instruments will play it.
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    Does Hans indeed perform piano on this?
  21. tannhauser
    Doug Adams is the DA in NDA!
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    Never heard of the same orchestra performing Rheingold and Götterdämmerung in one day. That's about the equivalence.
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    So on April the 18th, the orchestra will perform Return of the King at 1300 and Fellowship of the Ring at 1900? Who are these guys? That's a superhuman task.
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    Like Gkgyver says, it's a real stretch to say that's Smaug. It's 4 notes. The first two are the same as the first two notes of Smaug's theme. The other two aren't.
  25. tannhauser
    To be honest, the song which the last goodbye reminds me most of is Use Well the Days, although the harmonic shifts and instrumentation are definitely somewhat reminiscent of Into the West. I like what I've heard of it, and think it will be the best end credits song of the trilogy. I wish Boyd's vocals were purer, as in Home is Behind, and less "pop". That bend he does on "I must away" is miserable. Still anything is better than Sheeran in my book. Nice to have you back Tanny!Thank you! I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.
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