Track Listing DISC 1: STAR WARS: 1. Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare With Cinema Scope Extension 2. Main Title 3. Imperial Attack 4. Desert/The Robot Auction, The 5. Little People Work, The 6. Princess Appears, The 7. Land of the Sand People, The 8. Return Home, The 9. Inner City 10. Mouse Robot/Blasting Off 11. Rescue of the Princess 12. Walls Converge, The 13. Ben's Death/Tie Fighter Attack 14. Princess Lela's Theme 15. Last Battle, The 16. Throne Room/End Titles, The
DISC 2: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: 1. Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare With Cinemascope Extension 2. Main Title/The Imperial Probe (Extended Version) 3. Luke's Escape 4. Luke's Rescue 5. Imperial March, The (Darth Vader's Theme) 6. Battle in the Snow, The 7. Luke's First Crash 8. Rebels Escape Again, The 9. Asteroid Field, The 10. Yoda's Theme 11. Han Solo and the Princess 12. Training of a Jedi Knight, The 13. Magic Tree, The 14. Yoda and the Force 15. City in the Clouds 16. Lando's Palace 17. Duel, The 18. Hyperspace 19. Finale/End Credits
DISC 3: RETURN OF THE JEDI: 1. Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare With Cinema Scope Extension 2. Main Title/Approaching the Death Star 3. Han Solo Returns 4. Fight in the Dungeon 5. Return of the Jedi, The 6. Emperor Arrives, The 7. Death of Yoda, The 8. Parade of the Ewoks 9. Luke and Leia 10. Emperor Confronts Luke, The 11. Into the Trap 12. First Ewok Battle/Fight With the Fighters 13. Forest Battle, The 14. Final Duel/Into the Death Star 15. Emperor's Death, The 16. Darth Vader's Death 17. Through the Flames 18. Leia Breaks the News/Funeral Pyre For a Jedi 19. Ewok Celebration/Finale
DISC 4: STAR WARS/THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK/RETURN OF THE JEDI: 1. Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare With Cinema Scope Extension 2. Main Title (Alternate) 3. Heroic Ewok/The Fleet Goes Into Hyperspace 4. Hive of Villainy, A 5. Destruction of Aideraan 6. Drawing the Battle Lines/Leia's Instructions 7. Ewok Battle, The 8. Attack Position 9. Crash Landing 10. Cantina Band 11. Lapti Nek 12. Cantina Band #2 13. Faking the Code 14. Brother and Sister 15. Standing By 16. Leia Is Wounded/Luke and Vader Duel 17. Carbon Freeze/Luke Pursues the Captives/Departure of Boba Fett 18. Losing a Hand 19. Return of the Jedi, The (Alternate) 20. Leia Breaks the News (Alternate)/Funeral Pyre For a Jedi (Film Version) 21. Ewok Celebration (Film Version) End Credits (Film Version)
| Details | | Producer: | George Lucas, John Williams | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes STAR WARS TRILOGY features the original scores to STAR WARS, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and the previously unavailable expanded score of RETURN OF THE JEDI. Also included is an additional disc of outtakes and previously unreleased music from all three films. Original scores composed and conducted by John Williams. Performed by The London Symphony Orchestra. Recorded at Anvil Recording Studios, Denham and EMI REcording Studios, London, England. Includes liner notes by John Williams, Nicholas Meyer and Lukas Kendall. This quadruple-CD set corrects a multitude of sonic sins that were evident in the original CD release of the Star Wars soundtrack and its sequels. It's also a veritable festival of John Williams' music from the George Lucas trilogy, a total-immersion experience in Williams' boldest 19th century-style body of music, and for those with that preference, it's a unique experience. The mastering is impeccable, the sound quality amazing, and the annotation very thorough, although one does wish at times that a more objective voice were heard from in the notes -- Williams' work here was superb, to be sure, but it was also highly derivative of a brace of late-19th century and early-20th century composers from the concert hall, and one would love to see this acknowledgement somewhere amid the celebration of the music. Since the release of this set, there have been even more ambitious compilations of Williams' music from these movies assembled, encompassing his scoring for the revised versions of the movies, but this box has a certain unity and purity to it, as the assembly of the music that he wrote for the movies as they were originally released. It's well worth tracking down and still enjoyable more than a decade later. ~ Bruce Eder
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