Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Oscar and Grammy Award-winning composer John William returns with an enchanted score inspired by the magic of the blockbuster film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The score is sure to be a hit with fans of the enormously successful Harry Potter films, as well as fans of John Williams--one of the most popular and successful American orchestral composers of the modern age. The set includes extras, enhanced with exclusive wallpaper and screensaver, flip book of stills from film, exclusive link to demo of new EA Harry Potter video game, Golden Ticket Contest (winner receives trip to Hollywood to tour WB lot and museum) and pull-out poster.

AMAZON
If the commercial constraints of genre and chronic Hollywood sequelitis threaten to musically straitjacket even a legend like John Williams, the veteran playfully rebuffs such cynicism in his rich, mirthful score for this third chapter of the Harry Potter cycle. Whether inspired by a wilful desire not to repeat himself, the continued reinvention of his jazz roots that brightened his scores for Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can and The Terminal, or the story's requirement for a handful of fresh themes, Williams informs his work here with an often dizzying range. The warm mysticism of "Hedwig's Theme" and classical farrago of "Aunt Marge's Waltz" can scarcely prepare one for the swinging, off-kilter "Knight Bus," a romp that suggests a head-on collision between the big-band bombast of 1941 and the loopy, Cantina Band kitsch of Star Wars. From there Williams skips back a half-millennium or so for inspiration, conjuring the ancient children's chorus "Double Trouble" (its text adapted from no less than MacBeth), a medieval theme that becomes one of the score's inspirational foundations. Those with a taste for the composer's patent orchestral thunder won't be disappointed either, as the Herrmann-influenced percussion/brass bombast of "Buckbeat's Flight" and "The Whomping Willow" attest with rousing zeal. It's arguably Williams' best Potter score to date, a soundtrack whose inspirations sprawl across six centuries--and as many disparate musical styles. --Jerry McCulley

1: Lumos! (Hedwig's Theme)
2: Aunt Marge's Waltz
3: The Knight Bus
4: Apparition On the Train
5: Double Trouble
6: Buckbeak's Flight
7: A Window to the Past
8: The Whomping Willow and the Snowball Fight
9: Secrets of the Castle
10: The Portrait Gallery
11: Hagrid the Professor
12: Monster Books and Boggarts!
13: Quidditch, Third Year
14: Lupin's Transformation and Chasing Scabbers
15: The Patronus Light
16: The Werewolf Scene
17: Saving Buckbeak
18: Forward to Time Past
19: The Dementors Converge
20: Finale
21: Mischief Managed!

Composer: John Williams

Number of Discs: 1

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