- Lumos! (Hedwig’s Theme)
- Aunt Marge’s Waltz
- The Knight Bus
- Apparition On The Train
- Double Trouble
- Buckbeak’s Flight
- A Window To The Past
- The Whomping Willow And The Snowball Fight
- Secrets Of The Castle
- The Portrait Gallery
- Hagrid The Professor
- Monster Books And Boggarts
- Quidditch, Third Year
- Lupin’s Transformation And Chasing Scabbers
- The Patronus Light
- The Werewolf Scene
- Saving Buckbeak
- Forward To Time Past
- The Dementors Converge
- Finale
- Mischief Managed!
発売日:2004年5月31日(月)
レーベル:Atlantic / Wea
レビュー (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 willful 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. Enhanced CD features include a photo gallery and exclusive computer wallpaper and screensaver files.
-- Jerry McCulley