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[nendil]

Wait, wait, what is this? This doesn't belong in the PoA soundtrack! It's... it's... Celtic-y and good! (4.87mb)

Not to dismiss John Williams, he had a couple of gems in the previous HP soundtracks (Fawkes' theme, Hedwig's theme, ...). But overall, those soundtracks were fairly repetitive and close to, dare I say, trite. But the PoA OST has grown up quite a bit, along with the film itself. Still, though, this particular track sounds far more at home with Lord of the Rings instead of Harry Potter... It could've come straight out of the SNES LotR game (a crappy game in every aspect except for the amazing Celtic music).

Track 9, "Secrets of the Castle", is also very lovely, in a more classic-Harry Potter way. But I won't put it up this time.

Comments

[ling84.livejournal.com]

Boy, you're so right about this track being far more LotR-ish. I seriously expected that gorgeous F. horn in the end to launch into the Gondor theme. :P

Hope I'm not mistaken, but is this the background music when Harry and Lupin are talking on the bridge?

[nendil.livejournal.com]

I don't at all recall the music being in the movie, but judging from the title that's probably where it's from. Either that, and/or when Harry was talking to Lupin in the forest.

[ling84.livejournal.com]

To answer my own question, I checked with Yahoo's film snippets. I had to turn the volume up quite a lot, until Lupin was practically shouting in my ears (headphones), but near the end I heard the first faint traces of "A Window to the Past." :P