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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [Soundtrack]

John Williams , William Ross Audio CD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (95 customer reviews)

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listen  1. Prologue: Book II And The Escape From The Dursleys (Album Version) 3:31$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  2. Fawkes The Phoenix (Album Version) 3:45$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  3. The Chamber Of Secrets (Album Version) 3:50$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  4. Gilderoy Lockhart (Album Version) 2:06$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  5. The Flying Car (Album Version) 4:08$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  6. Knockturn Alley (Album Version) 1:48$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  7. Introducing Colin (Album Version) 1:49$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  8. The Dueling Club (Album Version) 4:08$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  9. Dobby The House Elf (Album Version) 3:27$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen10. The Spiders (Album Version) 4:32$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen11. Moaning Myrtle (Album Version) 2:05$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen12. Meeting Aragog (Album Version) 3:18$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen13. Fawkes Is Reborn (Album Version) 3:19$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen14. Meeting Tom Riddle (Album Version) 3:38$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen15. Cornish Pixies (Album Version) 2:13$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen16. Polyjuice Potion (Album Version) 3:52$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen17. Cakes For Crabbe And Goyle (Album Version) 3:30$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen18. Dueling The Basilisk (Album Version) 5:02$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen19. Reunion Of Friends (Album Version) 5:08$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen20. Harry's Wondrous World (Chamber Of Secrets Album Version) 5:02$0.99  Buy MP3 


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Product Details

  • Performer: John Williams, William Ross
  • Audio CD (November 12, 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Atlantic
  • ASIN: B00006IR5S
  • In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (95 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,122 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Another multi-gazillion-dollar Hollywood franchise, another chapter in the remarkable career of John Williams. Though he's already been responsible for scoring some of the most overwhelmingly successful film series of all time, in tackling the second installment of the Harry Potter saga, Williams once again proves why his name is held in such high regard in scoring circles. While he utilizes the themes he established in Sorcerer's Stone, Williams's restless inventiveness still manages to cast this chapter in a fresh new musical light. Since many of the cues here are action or atmospheric-oriented, and thus lacking in need for strong melodic hooks, the veteran composer's mastery of orchestral color--and no small amount of stylistic reinvention--infuses the proceedings with a sense of wholeness and a surprising maturity that's a key element in conjuring up the film's crucial suspension of disbelief. Harry Potter may be but a fictional wizard, but John Williams proves yet again he's the real thing. --Jerry McCulley

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My son loves the Book, Movies and now the soundtrack. M. Vesey  |  28 reviewers made a similar statement
The melodies he creates for certain characters in the story are not only perfect, but beautiful. Shelley White  |  7 reviewers made a similar statement
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A darker score for a darker film November 16, 2002
Format:Audio CD
One often wonders how John Williams is consistently able to take themes from his previous films and incorporate them into his new scores in fresh, enchanting new ways. Williams has certainly done all this and more with his score for "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", the sequel to last year's blockbuster "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
Unable to complete the score to "Chamber of Secrets" on his own due to previous commitments with George Lucas's "Star Wars: Episode II" and Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" and "Catch Me If You Can", William Ross was brought in to adapt the new themes Williams had created for the film as well as to supply a large number of underscore based on Williams's material. The collaboration was very much a success, and this album is proof of it.
"Chamber of Secrets" is a much darker film than "Sorcerer's Stone", and the CD is full of cues that are much darker than cues from the previous album. As conducted by Ross and performed by the unparalleled London Symphony Orchestra, the score for "Chamber of Secrets" is one of the most original and best sounding scores I have heard in a long time.
The album begins with "Prologue: Book II and The Escape From the Dursleys". This track features a compilation of many of the themes from "Sorcerer's Stone", beginning with "Hedwig's Theme" on celesta (once again played by Randy Kerber), then transistioning into the music from "The Arrival of Baby Harry" on the last album. The "Flying Theme" and "Harry's Wondrous World" round out the familiar themes in this track, which provides a wonderful re-introduction to the world of Harry Potter and John Williams.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Once again, John Williams has come through with a wonderful, magic-filled soundtrack for Harry Potter. The Chamber of Secrets score is even more expressive and noteworthy (pun not intended); if you've seen the movie (or even if you haven't), you can almost pick out the scenes from the movie by listening to the music. I especially love the "Fawkes the Phoenix" theme. "The Dueling Club" always gives me chills--mostly because of the ending part (I remember Harry's Parseltongue in the movie--it still creeps me out!) The only "nitpick" I can lodge, as far as the arrangement of the CD, is the songs are not in actual sequence, but that's okay.

There is a cool extra available with the CD, for those who play piano: the sheet music for Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets is available NOW for download. You can actually print out sheet music from this movie to play, and if you have the Music Notes player utility (you need to download it from the site in order to print the music, anyway), you can use the CD to "play" the sheet music on your computer. That is, when you have the sheet music on the screen and the CD in your computer, the selected piece will play and light up the notes on the screen in sequence. It's neat and helpful to hear and see it this way, as a musician. Otherwise, if you "play" the sheet music on the screen without the CD, the player does an adequate job of playing the piano version for you. However, it only plays it "mathematically" correct; it doesn't accent the notes or notation parts correctly, but at least you get the gist of what the piece is supposed to sound like on the piano. Another note: when you play the music with the CD, the notes will sometimes stop in the middle of the song (example: the "Chamber of Secrets" score does this)....

As of my last viewing of the site, The Music Notes utility now lets Macintosh users view and print sheet music from the site, but they still don't have the actual player available yet. The company FAQs section for Macintosh assures us that they are currently working on the issue, but a compatible program is not expected to be released until 2004. (Say WHA-A-T?!)

In summary, WONDERFUL CD, WONDERFUL and SURPRISING extras.(Get the CD, anyway. Hogwarts Forever!) Read more ›

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!!!!!!!! November 13, 2002
By Brett
Format:Audio CD
The new Harry Potter soundtrack returns us to the world that was created by J.K. Rowling and given musical life by John Williams. While revisiting old themes that are already beloved, there are new themes that are introduced for the first time. The wonder Fawkes the Phoenix seems to be the dominant theme and will be cherished as much as Hedwig's Theme from the first movie. Then there's the dark Chamber of Secrets, filled with mystery and suspense. The other track are exciting, like The Flying Car and The Spiders. Harry's Wondrous World from the first movie concludes this installment of what is sure to be one of the best movie series ever, if not for anything else but Williams' wonderful score.
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This is a great album. It's a lot better then the Sorcerer's Stone Soundtrack. There are many new great themes. There are also kind of remixes of old themes. "Harrys Woundrous World" comes back with a different ending. "Fawkes The Pheonix" is a great theme. It repeats in some other songs. I like "Cornish Pixies" which is a very exiting song. Here are my reviews of the songs:
1.Prolouge Book II and Escape From The Dursleys: It is a lot more exiting then the Sorcerers Stone verson of the Prolouge. It has the part where Ron comes with the flying car.4/5 3:31
2.Fawkes The Pheonix: This is the best new theme. It is great. The middle part is great right before the evil part of the song. It has a four note beginning reminding you that this is a great song.5/5 3:45
3. The Chamber Of Secrets: It sounds a little like the beginning of Fawkes The Pheonix. It is one of the evil themes on the album.4/5 3:49
4. Gildoroy Lockhart: A silly theme. It's not that great.3/5 2:05
5. The Flying Car: I love this one. It's very exiting. It's my favorite tied with "Deuling The Basilisk".5/5 4:08
6. Knockturn Alley: It's very short. It goes to the Diagon Alley theme after a minute. 4/5 1:47
7. Introducing Colin: Another very short one. It is mostly the part when Hermionie feels bad because Malfoy called her a mudblood.3/5 1:49
8.The Deuling Club: This is o.k. At some points it gets exiting then it dies down. 3/5 4:08
9.Dobby The House Elf: I like this. It really reminds you of Dobby.4/5 3:27
10.The Spiders: Very exiting. It ends like the flying car. It's great after they play the main theme once.4/5 4:32
11.Mouning Mytle: This is a ghost type of theme. It reminds you of all the ghousts in the school.3/5 2:05
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Harry Potter is the world's best movies and the musical scores are some of the best around. The music is wonderful
Published 3 months ago by Harry A. Ault
5.0 out of 5 stars Potter Fan
I love the music in all the Harry Potter Films. I am a great fan and the music certainly helps make the movies come alive. Read more
Published 3 months ago by John
5.0 out of 5 stars Harry Potter music
I so love the Harry Potter sound tracks. As much as I love the movies. I listen to them all of the time.
Published 4 months ago by Elizabeth Peters
4.0 out of 5 stars bought as a gift
bought as a gift for an individual that is totaly a fanatic of the harry potter book series, she loves it.
Published 5 months ago by ray
5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing
This is in my opinion one of the best soundtracks that there are for harry potter, this and the fourth!
Published 5 months ago by Bradley H.
5.0 out of 5 stars The Master's Music
John Williams is the greatest composer of music in the last 60 years. The Harry Potter series is some of his most wonderful work. Read more
Published 10 months ago by L. Huber
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente soundtrack....genial John Williams!!!
Este segundo capítulo de la obra Harry Potter y la Cámara Secreta dirigida por Chris Columbus, nos trae una vez más la intervención del genial... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Manuel Carranza C
5.0 out of 5 stars HP and the Chamber of Secrets CD
Everything is amazing...cd works beautifully, fast shipping - the cd's cover art wasn't the same as shown, but no big deal. GREAT buy!
Published 23 months ago by Nicholas G. Hess
3.0 out of 5 stars Not as strong
Some of the great John Williams themes from the other Harry Potter movies can be found in this track. However, overall I felt this track didn't strengthen the movie quite as much. Read more
Published on January 23, 2010 by Enjolras
3.0 out of 5 stars Not as strong
Some of the great John Williams themes from the other Harry Potter movies can be found in this track. However, overall I felt this track didn't strengthen the movie quite as much. Read more
Published on January 23, 2010 by Enjolras
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