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Obscured by the familiar grandeur of John Williams’s score for Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace was the sheer volume of the composer’s prodigious musical efforts. Not only did Williams expand on the original Star Wars trilogy’s musical language with a whole new range of modern classical inspirations, but his efforts also produced more than two hours of seamless symphonic foundation for the galactic epic, enough wall-to-wall music to power three less ambitious films. This impressively packaged double-disc set offers Williams’s complete Episode 1 score for the first time. It’s a worthy tribute to the scoring legend’s mastery of tone, dynamics, and nuance–a virtual musical tone poem that imparts much of the film’s dramaturgy. Divorced from the bombastic visual assault of state-of-the-art digital effects, one is struck by the composition’s emotional resonance. It’s the small, quiet moments that give the story its subtle, crucial humanity; it’s hard to imagine a film conceit so outlandish functioning without it. The Ultimate Edition includes a bonus track of the stirring choral centerpiece, “Duel of the Fates,” with an overlaid dialogue montage, as well as a photo-rich booklet that illustrates each of the film’s key scenes and musical cues. –Jerry McCulley
good soundtrack or the best one
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m a very fan of Star Wars music, but this time, John Williams dissapointed me. i’ts not the music, but the order in which the tracks were labeled. just as it is in the movie.
most tracks are broken up, The Dwell of the fates is broken a hundred of times. and Anakin’s theme is not in a separated track. There’s no comparations to the first trilogy soundtracks, they’re exaclty as soundtracks gotta be.
i owe the one disc version, though it has only 75 minutes of music, it’s much more complete.
that’s why this soundtrack was a low selled one.
they gotta do something if they want us to get the next ones. (or if they’re planning to release them)
Rating: 3 / 5
Yes the complete edition of episode 1 soundtrack will bee avaliable in one more week and I give five stars because is from john wiliams excelent master piece and in my opinion one of the best tracks will bee qui-gon and darth maul meet well thats my point of view ok and wait only a week to buy this magnificent sound track well see you later…
Rating: 5 / 5
John Williams is one of the best composers of film music, along side Hans Zimmer, James Horner, and of course Ennio Morricone. I am not a music scholar so I will not go into dissertations about theory and the like.
While I was disappointed with The Phantom Menance, the music is way better than the film itself, and my own imagination made a lot better film. However I am displeased with the packaging for this album. It’s horrible. To me, it showed where Mr. Lucas’ money was placed with his growing toy empire and making such classic American films like Radioland Murders.
So I do encourage all to by this album, but make their own packaging. Double CD cases cost around maybe a buck, and then for artwork, the net is vast for great artwork. I used artwork from the Episode One manga. It looks sweet.
Rating: 3 / 5
Williams lo ha hecho de nuevo.Definitivamente aun no puedo comprender como alguien puede haber estado mas de 60 veces nominado para un oscar por mejor música y seguir haciendo música de calidad, agradable al oído, pero sobretodo novedosa. Este soundtrack es realmente el score que debió ser el soundtrack original de la película y no el que salió a la venta primero. Esta realmente es la música de la película y escucharlo es simplemente un placer para nuestro sentido del óido. Es adentrarnos en el profundo universo de Lucas con unas piezas dignas de una verdadera obra de arte, a veces fuertes, a veces suaves, pero siempre manteniendo el tono y ritmo de StarWars. Contrariamente a otras opiniones que he leído, pienso que la caja es también extraordinaria con una excelente presentación y diferente a lo que se suele ver en esta clase de soundtracks. Recomiendo ampliamente este soundtrack, aún si no eres fanático de StarWars.
Rating: 5 / 5