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Well I bought the CD but as many have expressed, the faulty parts and inexcusable. Sad this probably being the greatest work form Alan Menken (should have won an Oscar which is also inexcusable). Is the fan-fixed version available in lossless format (FLAC) somewhere by any chance?

So after these last years, did the sound improved even by a small margin in the La La Land release compared to the original 1998 pressing? What has been your experiences with the release?

Maybe Intrada will rerelease it any time in the future. I mean, look how they lables essentially exchange sold out releases from each other. Now's maybe the turn for another label.

thank you scallenger, very informative. Well, that's enough for me then, it doesn't matter he plays other's composers music, as long as the majority of music played is actually his. Thank you, and thank you very much for the advices.

So guys... What would be this concert about? I want to go, maybe on of the last chances to see the Maestro, live. But I want to see him conducting his themes, not other composers. Is this concert almost about non-Williams related music ?

I think it is sort of by design, but we have to remember the music Shore originally wrote was not meant to be the movie CLIMAX at all. So I think it has to do more with the fact that although worked fine originally, PJ didn't feel they were big enough for the climax of the whole movie, so he went for a more direct quotation of what they wanted to convey.

Hi guys, glad to be part of this community. First post here... SPOILERS AHEAD From my understanding, the two more controversial music moments in the film are more justified than appears to be... First... The "nazgul theme", which by the way is not exclusive for the nazgul but for the forces of Sauron as in the FOTR prologue, during the Thorin/Azog fight. First of all the music is underlying not Thorin heroism per-se, but the danger he is about to fight. That danger, Azog, is definitely linked to Sauron and even more indirectly but linked with the Nazgul. How can we tell this? frist the music for whatever he is in a scene is part of Mordor and Sauron's themes which is also part of the Nazgul music, second.. is implied throughout the movie that these orcs are in someway unleashed by the forces of darkness; aka: Sauron, third... if you pay attention, when Azog kill one of his ocrs, they are in WEATEHERTOP, the same place the Nazgul attacked the Hobbits and hurt Frodo in FOTR, funny thing right ? from all places they could be, PJ choose that one. And finally... the piece Shore originally wrote for that moment when Thoring charge against Azog, is very similar to the Nazfgul theme, you could almost hear it as a premature "nazgul theme". So I think the link is not blind at all, I think more will be revealed in the next two movies. Then we have the "Gondor reborn" theme, which is I think is underlying a ROYAL gesture; Thorin is finally giving Bilbo all his blessings, its a powerful moment from a KING to a hobbit. At the end of the Return of the King is not only underlying a Royal moment at te coronation, but the success by Sam and Frodo, and not only the freedom of Gondor but all middle earth, so is a more general sentiment. So we have these two moments which I think are more justified than it seems. They are maybe too direct, but I don't think unrelated at all with the context. thank you