SUH 65 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 I came across this interesting concert work on Shore’s official website. https://www.howardshore.com/rentals/i-roderyn/ Does anyone know what this piece is? From tabla in the instrumentation and the word ‘Wood’ in the title I am thinking it could be Woodland Realm theme related, however with the year being 2012 and the picture being the ‘An Unexpected Journey’ soundtrack, it seems it’s based on music from the first Hobbit score. It seems odd that there’s barely any information about it online and the title seems unfamilar (with no relation to any of the OST track titles). A google search for ‘I Roderyn’ and ‘The Noble Wood’ returns few results, and they don’t appear to come from the source novel. I wonder if ’I Roderyn’ is an original Elvish translation by David Salo, it sounds like it could be from the translated lyrics to ‘The Feast of Starlight’. The piece can be rented from Lucks Music and appears to have been performed by the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra in 2016 and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra in 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TolkienSS 485 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 That's very wierd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meredith McKay 7,783 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Perhaps it is related to Radagast? SUH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 10,347 Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Maybe @Doug Adams knows something and may help us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meredith McKay 7,783 Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Or @Jim Ware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Doug Adams 511 Posted November 19, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 19, 2022 15 hours ago, Edmilson said: Maybe @Doug Adams knows something and may help us? Woodland Realm material, I believe Edmilson, SUH, Chen G. and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TolkienSS 485 Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Is this related to the piano book version of The Woodland Realm? There's a theme suite in there that's not on the OST. Maybe Shore wrote this for a version of An Unexpected Journey which still included the Mirkwood stuff, before it was three movies. SUH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meredith McKay 7,783 Posted May 13, 2023 Share Posted May 13, 2023 It's basically The Woodland Realm + Beyond the Forest + Feast of Starlight https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/le-concert-du-soir/week-end-howard-shore-compositeur-du-seigneur-des-anneaux-8958467 SUH and Monoverantus 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 9,130 Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 It is a nice piece. And great concert programme, too. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jim Ware 583 Posted May 17, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2023 It's a fun little tenth anniversary piece. Shore was writing the Tauriel and Kili material almost ten years ago to the day on May 19th 2013. He started writing the score proper on May 28th 2013, beginning with the entrance to the Woodland Realm. Smaug The Iron, SUH, Monoverantus and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted May 22, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 22, 2023 Here's a recording of the Berklee performance that someone posted to Soundcloud: It's a really lovely piece. enderdrag64, Monoverantus, Edmilson and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Meredith McKay 7,783 Posted November 15, 2024 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2024 This is getting released March 21st 2025: https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/howard-shore-anthology-the-paris-concerts-13652 Trope, Chen G. and Incanus 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 5,103 Posted November 15, 2024 Share Posted November 15, 2024 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,858 Posted November 16, 2024 Share Posted November 16, 2024 14 hours ago, Doo_liss said: This is getting released March 21st 2025: https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/howard-shore-anthology-the-paris-concerts-13652 Sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 10,347 Posted November 18, 2024 Share Posted November 18, 2024 "The Noble Wood"? Shore does seem to think quite highly of his junk huh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meredith McKay 7,783 Posted November 18, 2024 Share Posted November 18, 2024 2 minutes ago, Edmilson said: "The Noble Wood"? Shore does seem to think quite highly of his junk huh In decent times it was called Green Wood the great, but in recent times some have taken to calling it Mirk Wood... Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerebral Cortex 3,360 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Ware 583 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 This was performed in London on Saturday night by the LPO and Ben Palmer (along with a bunch of other Shore stuff), with Shore in attendance. Monoverantus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monoverantus 567 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 On 23/03/2025 at 10:37 PM, Cerebral Cortex said: This reminds me a lot of Gabriel's Oboe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artguy360 2,007 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Listening to it now, it's nice. Definitely has a lot of Shore's Middle Earth sound. It's his LOTR music written for the concert stage instead of for film. Halfway thru the piece it starts giving big time Gabriel's Oboe similarities. Monoverantus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meredith McKay 7,783 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 13 hours ago, artguy360 said: Listening to it now, it's nice. Definitely has a lot of Shore's Middle Earth sound. It's his LOTR music written for the concert stage instead of for film. Halfway thru the piece it starts giving big time Gabriel's Oboe similarities. Well, it's actually an arrangement combining the Desolation of Smaug compositions Feast of Starlight and Beyond the Forest; but without the choir. Bofur01 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artguy360 2,007 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 14 hours ago, Meredith McKay said: Well, it's actually an arrangement combining the Desolation of Smaug compositions Feast of Starlight and Beyond the Forest; but without the choir. Oh, I had no idea. I didn't pay much attention to the Hobbit scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 42,232 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 9,130 Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 On 25/03/2025 at 12:50 PM, Monoverantus said: This reminds me a lot of Gabriel's Oboe. It's Thranduil's Oboe. Karol Monoverantus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,185 Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 On 26/03/2025 at 4:09 PM, artguy360 said: Listening to it now, it's nice. Definitely has a lot of Shore's Middle Earth sound. It's his LOTR music written for the concert stage instead of for film. Halfway thru the piece it starts giving big time Gabriel's Oboe similarities. Is it strange you haven't heard the Hobbit scores? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artguy360 2,007 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 On 29/03/2025 at 5:20 PM, Arpy said: Is it strange you haven't heard the Hobbit scores? Is it strange to who? Me? You? Howard Shore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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