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"Is it the entire scores as heard in the films, recording sessions before they were edited into the films, or the composers own re-interpretation of the scores?" Re-interpretation? Could you ever imagine how much that will cost.
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What we have in the Complete Recordings is something absolutely stunning, both in terms of music and presentation.
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The Complete Recordings follows the narrative flow of the extended versions of the film for the most part. There are some major divergences at times because of preference, such as the blaze of brass at the Ford of Bruinen, or to accommodate for editorial changes during post-production. Gandalf and Pippin's arrival in Gondor and approach to Minas Tirith appears twice on the CR for The Return of the King because there were two different assemblies of the film that were scored. Much of what is contained on the original soundtrack albums differs greatly from what appears on the Complete Recordings. Sometimes they are different takes with divergent orchestrations, sometimes they are different mixes (which can have a definite effect on the impact of the music, this is particularly true of the muted choir on the CR for The Fellowship of the Ring as compared to the original soundtrack album, and more cutting brass sound of the CR for The Two Towers as opposed to its original soundtrack release), and sometimes they are completely different approaches to the same material. Sometimes the original soundtrack album represents what appears in the theatrical version of the film while the Complete Recordings has the extended version, such as the sequence in Fellowship of the Ring during which the Fellowship leaves Lórien (the theatrical version is one of my favorite pieces of music from the trilogy, but then again, so is the gift-giving scene). It happens to be one of the more interesting aspects of this musical milieu to me; there is so much variation even within the same cue. If you factor in the Rarities Archive CD included in Doug Adams' book The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films, you sometimes have three or more interpretations of the same scene.
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