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'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Soundtrack to be Released in December!
By InCinemas / 11 Nov 2013 (Monday)
Featuring Original Music by Academy Award® Winner Howard Shore, upcoming blockbuster The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 2 CD set is due for a December 9 release!
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smuag opens InCinemas 12 December 2013!
Decca Records today announced details of the soundtrack to “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), the second in a trilogy of films by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The soundtrack will be released on December 9th, 2013, one day before the December 10th international rollout of the film begins, and will be available both digitally and as a 2 CD set. A Special Edition soundtrack, featuring twelve extended tracks, a bonus track, expanded liner notes and interactive sheet music will also be available. Fans will be able to preorder the album at both iTunes and Amazon on November 6th.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features the music of Howard Shore, one of film music’s most respected, honored, and active composers and conductors. "I’m looking forward to introducing you to Smaug," exclaimed Shore, who previously worked with director Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Howard Shore’s music for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy stands as his most towering achievement to date, garnering three Academy Awards® for his music for those films, two for Best Original Score, and one for Best Original Song. Shore has also won numerous other honors for his film work, including four Grammys and three Golden Globe Awards, the Career Achievement for Music Composition Award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, New York Chapter’s Recording Academy Honors, ASCAP’s Henry Mancini Award, the Frederick Loewe Award and the Max Steiner Award from the city of Vienna. He holds honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music and York University, and is an Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la France and the recipient of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award in Canada.
Included on the soundtrack is I See Fire, a new song created for the film by Ed Sheeran, the 22-year old British singer/songwriter and multi-platinum global phenomenon who was nominated in the prestigious “Song of the Year” category at this year’s 55th Annual Grammy Awards. Sheeran is also a two-time BRIT Award winner and recipient of the highly esteemed Ivor Novello award for best song musically and lyrically in the UK." “It was such an honor working with Peter Jackson on this song," Sheeran says. "Not only is he one of my favorite directors of my favorite films, The Hobbit was the first book I ever read as a child, so it means a lot that I get to produce music for the motion picture.”
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be released on December 09, 2013.
Tracklistings
DISC 1
- The Quest For Erebor
- Wilderland
- A Necromancer (Bonus Track)*
- The House Of Beom**
- Mirkwood**
- Flies & Spiders**
- The Woodland Realm**
- Feast Of Starlight
- Barrels Out Of Bond
- The Forest River**
- Bard, A Man Of Lake-Town**
- The High Fells**
- The Nature of Evil
- Protector Of The Common Folk
DISC 2
- Thrice Welcome
- Girion, Lord Of Dale**
- Durin’s Folk**
- In The Shadow Of The Mountain
- A Spell Of Concealment**
- On The Doorstep
- The Courage Of Hobbits
- Inside Information
- Kingsfoil
- A liar And A Thief
- The Hunters**
- Smaug
- My Armour is Iron
- I See Fire (Performed By Ed Sheeran)
- Beyond The Forest
* Bonus track available on Special Edition Soundtrack only
** Extended Versions of these songs Available on Special Edition Soundtrack only