Tracklist:

LP 1

1. The Noble Wood (I Roderyn)
2. Where the Shadows Lie
3. The History of the Ring
4. A Long-expected Party
5. The Seduction of the Ring
6. A Black Shadow
7. Last Homely House
8. Turning Southwards
9. The Road Under the Mountain
10. The Halls of Durin
11. Durin’s Bane
12. The Golden Wood
13. Gandalf’s Lament
14. Beyond Lothlrien
15. The Anduin
16. The White Hand
17. The Passing of Boromir
18. The Fate of the Bearer
19. In Dreams
20. Catania
21. Esther Kahn (Paris Suite)
22. Eastern Promises
23. Tatiana/Trans-Siberian Diary

LP 2

1. Main Title
2. Plasma Pool
3. Stathis Enters
4. The Stairs
5. The Jump
6. Finale
7. Naked Lunch
8. Fadela’s Coven/Dr. Benway
9. Main Title (Transcr. For Theremin and Orchestra)
10. Grave Robbers (Transcr. For Theremin and Orchestra)
11. This Is the One (Transcr. For Theremin and Orchestra)
12. Crash Suite
13. Crash
14. Cineterra
15. Mechanism of Occupant Ejection
16. Mirror Image
17. Where’s the Car?
18. Sexual Logic
19. Road Research Laboratory
20. Chromium Bower
21. Triton
22. Prophecy Is Dirty and Ragged

The dawn of the 21st century brought a seismic change for the composer Howard Shore when New Zealander Peter Jackson invited him to write the music for ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, followed a decade later by ‘The Hobbit’. The blockbuster films introduced the wonders of Shore’s writing – here applied to storytelling on an epic scale – to audiences worldwide. ‘I honestly believe I managed to connect with Tolkien’s work and his love of nature, which I also share’, says Shore. ‘I wrote that music with my heart’.