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As long as they haven't 'saved' some bits for those re-issues...

If WB is not stupid, they'll see there's money in this. Maybe the plan always was to release them individually a few years down the line after "skinning" the ultrafans who had to have all 3, or this was their only was to get 1.

But should we really call it the Stone motif? It also plays when Harry sees his money.

Daaaamn. That's still a lot.
 
 
 
Lol. Poor MV.

According to LLL on FSM, they received around 3,000 orders since last Tuesday!
 
It's not clear whether that's just the HP Collection or all orders, but I assume it's the latter. Still, I'm assuming the HP Collection is a bestseller, maybe the fastest-selling LLL album so far! 

And Dumbledore. And Aragog.

My biggest disappointment with the Chamber score (which I absolutely LOVE, btw) is easily the fact that the Stone motif is used at all, let along as frequently and prominently as it is.  As you indicated, JW wrote a FANTASTIC theme for the Chamber, which got a tremendous concert arrangement but also is worked into several key cues in a FANTASTIC way; Every single time the Chamber theme is used in an actual film cue, it's orchestrated differently than it ever is in the concert arrangement, and all those moments are among my favorite moments in the whole score.  The melody really lent itself to being adaptable into different spots and perfectly captures the air of mystery around the Chamber.
 
I don't think we'll ever know the full entire story of the writing and adapting process of HP2, but to me, I would personally hypothesize that if Spielberg had delayed Catch Me If You Can to the following Oscar season and JW had been able to dedicate his normal routine to HP2, he wouldn't have used the Stone motif again and all the spots that currently use it would either have the Chamber theme or something else instead.
 
I've long thought about trying a fun editing experiment: Taking the entire score, and then carving away all the parts that are lifts from HP1 and see how long a resulting album could be, and how musically sound it would be.  Originally I thought for sure I'd remove all instances of the Stone motif for this project, but after studying the score more, I think that would be impossible.  The stone motif was reorchestrated and integrated into new cues pretty well at times, and several instances of the Chamber theme kind of spill out of a familial instance of the Stone theme.  Mike describes this well in the liner notes - "It is particularly effective when it emerges unexpectedly from adapted Sorcerer’s Stone material — the listener is lulled by the familiar and then confronted with a chilling theme that makes Hogwarts feel vulnerable and unsafe."
 
So I think the timecrunch is certainly the main reason the stone motif is used so often, and its a bummer, but what can you do!
 
 
You can check out the cues Williams wrote it into in the session leak right now - The Writing On The Wall, Petrified Justin, Petrified Colin, It's a Basilisk, Ginny Gets Snatched, and The Search For Ginny [Goodbye To Memories in the leak].
 
 
 
Yes, some of those new orchestrations are really powerful and intimidating.
 
 
 
I dunno, I think the Chamber theme is worked into the cues very well, personally.  But I kind of know what you mean that it doesn't quite create the same feel that the Stone motif does... the interesting thing I figured out while working on this set was that Williams actually wrote another little motif relating to the chamber and the general mystery of the film; You can hear it at the end of the "Petrified Colin (Alternate)" sample (it was removed from the film version), but it was introduced earlier, in "The Writing On The Wall" and reappears later too, in "Ginny Gets Snatched".  I imagine he would have embellished on this as well as the Chamber theme he had time to rewrite every cue that currently uses the Stone theme.  Alas.

Dobby is also dead. Just like Lupin and Tonks and Fred and Snape.

Since the makers of this podcast only have a stem of the final film and the OST, and not the LLL set, I'd imagine they just combined the OST full Hedwig's Theme with iso score rip End Credits Insert for the podcast.

I know nothing about what might have showed up in the video game.

The LLL set uses the cues as recorded, no film edits are retained.

Calliope.

Far be it from me to complain about anything with this wonderful release, I've listened to it so much this year, but the more I think about it the more I'm a bit annoyed that Disc 2 was presented with so little explanation beyond "here's a bunch of stuff, figure it out."
 
I shouldn't have to use a (very good) spreadsheet on a forum to understand what it is I'm even listening to.

Real choir.

Oh you're right, I always forget that HP1 wasn't "officially" the LSO, just many of the the same musicians.  My bad.

I remember distinctly that the score to HP&PS was not performed by the LSO. Only a few members from the LSO participated in the recording sessions, but not the LSO proper. That's why it doesn't say LSO on the OST album, either!
 
Or was that false information too? 

Would've loved to witness the HP frenzy here back then!
But maybe it's better this way.
A 15-year-old redishere lost in JWFan all day probably would have never finished school  

For me it works way better on its own that in the arrival cue.

I don't even know how many times I watched this as a kid, even before I became a JW fan.... Outside, it's getting dark and cold, Christmas atmosphere is all around, the fragrance of freshly baked cookies in the air and the anticipation of Christmas presents becoming nearly unbearable...
 
And from the TV in the living room: 😂❄️🎄✨🎁
 
 

Home Alone makes me feel nostalgic too! 
 
That's the magical Chris Columbus and John Williams combo! They know how to evoke childhood memories and tug at the heartstrings ... 

Because you're now an old man.
 

Because it came out...17 years ago. Gah. I remember seeing it for the first time....
 
There it is. The nostalgia

Indeed! 
 
I love this score, but I love this movie too. It has a timeless, awesome quality to it. Arguably, Chris Columbus' masterpiece. 

It may be blind nostalgia for a large part, but every single cue of this score is a highlight to me, they practically all have something great, unique and memorable.

That's nice! I've never actually heard the commercial before. (Why does everything about HP1 make me feel so nostalgic?)

That's a nice deed by Coca-Cola, but what about the millions of kids getting obese and prematurely sick drinking Coca-Cola and other soda? 😂 
 
But anyway, great music!