John Williams, London Symphony Orchestra

Star Wars Trilogy (The Original Soundtrack Anthology)

1993 Contemporary Neo-Romantic Score

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Tracklist

Star Wars
1-1 Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare With CinemaScope ExtensionNewman 0:22
1-2 Main Title 5:23
1-3 Imperial Attack 6:41
1-4 The Desert / The Robot Auction 2:51
1-5 The Little People Work 4:08
1-6 The Princess Appears 4:06
1-7 The Land Of The Sand People 2:55
1-8 The Return Home 2:48
1-9 Inner City 4:44
1-10 Mouse Robot / Blasting Off 4:03
1-11 Rescue Of The Princess 4:48
1-12 The Walls Converge 4:33
1-13 Ben’s Death / TIE Fighter Attack 3:51
1-14 Princess Leia’s Theme 4:23
1-15 The Last Battle 12:13
1-16 The Throne Room / End Titles 5:32
The Empire Strikes Back
2-1 Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare With CinemaScope ExtensionNewman 0:22
2-2 Main Title / The Imperial Probe (Extended Version) 7:58
2-3 Luke’s Escape 3:34
2-4 Luke’s Rescue 1:45
2-5 The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme) 2:59
2-6 The Battle In The Snow 3:45
2-7 Luke’s First Crash 4:12
2-8 The Rebels Escape Again 2:59
2-9 The Asteroid Field 4:14
2-10 Yoda’s Theme 3:26
2-11 Han Solo And The Princess 3:26
2-12 The Training Of A Jedi Knight 3:13
2-13 The Magic Tree 3:32
2-14 Yoda And The Force 4:02
2-15 City In The Clouds 6:50
2-16 Lando’s Palace 3:52
2-17 The Duel 4:14
2-18 Hyperspace 4:03
2-19 Finale / End Credits 6:18
Return Of The Jedi
3-1 Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare With CinemaScope ExtensionNewman 0:22
3-2 Main Title / Approaching The Death Star 5:18
3-3 Han Solo Returns (At The Court Of Jabba The Hutt) 4:06
3-4 Fight In The Dungeon 3:38
3-5 The Return Of The Jedi 4:59
3-6 The Emperor Arrives 2:05
3-7 The Death Of Yoda 6:03
3-8 Parade Of The Ewoks 3:25
3-9 Luke And Leia 4:43
3-10 The Emperor Confronts Luke 3:26
3-11 Into The Trap 2:36
3-12 First Ewok Battle / Fight With TIE Fighters 7:18
3-13 The Forest Battle 4:01
3-14 Final Duel / Into The Death Star 3:37
3-15 The Emperor’s Death 2:41
3-16 Darth Vader’s Death 2:31
3-17 Through The Flames 1:36
3-18 Leia Breaks The News / Funeral Pyre For A Jedi 2:19
3-19 Ewok Celebration / Finale 7:58
Outtakes And Previously Unreleased Music From Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back & Return Of The Jedi
4-1 Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare With CinemaScope ExtensionNewman 0:22
4-2 Main Title (Alternate) 2:16
4-3 Heroic Ewok / The Fleet Goes Into Hyperspace 3:05
4-4 A Hive Of Villainy 2:12
4-5 Destruction Of Alderaan 1:31
4-6 Drawing The Battle Lines / Leia’s Instructions 4:02
4-7 The Ewok Battle 2:48
4-8 Attack Position 3:04
4-9 Crash Landing 3:35
4-10 Cantina Band 2:46
4-11 Lapti NekArbogast, Williams 2:48
4-12 Cantina Band #2 3:44
4-13 Faking The Code 4:10
4-14 Brother And Sister 3:08
4-15 Standing By 1:14
4-16 Leia Is Wounded / Luke And Vader Duel 2:57
4-17 Carbon Freeze / Luke Pursues The Captives / Departure Of Boba Fett 11:08
4-18 Losing A Hand 5:20
4-19 The Return Of The Jedi (Alternate) 5:03
4-20 Leia Breaks The News (Alternate) / Funeral Pyre For A Jedi (Film Version) 2:27
4-21 Ewok Celebration (Film Version) / End Credits (Film Version)Burtt, Williams 6:22

Musicians

London Symphony OrchestraOrchestra
Jabba’s Palace BandPerformer
Michelle GruskaVocals (Snootles)

Production

John WilliamsComposed By, Conductor, Liner Notes, Producer, Arranged By
George LucasProducer
Ernie FosseliusArranged By
Joseph WilliamsArranged By, Lyrics By (Original English Lyrics)

Also credited. Composed By: Alfred Newman. Lyrics By (Huttese Lyrics): Annie M. Arbogast. Lyrics By: Ben Burtt. Art Direction: Christopher Jennings. Compilation Producer (Soundtrack Anthology Producer): Nick Redman. Coordinator (Project): Cindy Cooper. Engineer: Eric Tomlinson. Engineer (Remix): John Neal. Mixed By (Remix): John Neal. Liner Notes: Jon Burlingame, Lukas Kendall, Nicholas Meyer. Mastered By (Digital Mastering): Dan Hersch. Recording Supervisor: Lionel Newman. Supervised By (Sequency And Assembly Supervision): Ford A. Thaxton. Transferred By (Music Transfers): Bill Wolford.

Release notes

Rear album art of disc 3 and text inside booklet erroneously lists the second cue in track 3-12 as “Fight with the Fighters”. This should actually be “Fight with TIE Fighters”, as evidenced by the title of cue 11M2 in John Williams’ original recording session logs with the LSO.

CD set comes in a box set with a 64-page booklet.

The following tracks contain previously unreleased music:
Disc 1: 3, 9
Disc 2: 2, 3, 7, 15

The following tracks were previously unreleased:
Disc 3: 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17

Disc 4 contains tracks from all three scores:
Star Wars: 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 15
The Empire Strikes Back: 6, 8, 9, 17, 18, 21 [End Credits (film version)]
Return Of The Jedi: 3, 7, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21 [Ewok Celebration]
all were previously unreleased except tracks 10, 11 and “Departure of Boba Fett” in track 17.

Digital Mastering: DigiPrep, Hollywood, CA
Music Transfers: The Music Source, Seattle, WA
Additional Transfers: Trax Studios, Hollywood, CA

Star Wars:
Recorded at Anvil Recording Studios, Denham, England [Star Wars]
Remixed at The Burbank Studios, Burbank, CA

The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi:
Recorded at Anvil / EMI Recording Studios, Abbey Road, London

The Empire Strikes Back:
Remixed at Twentieth Century Fox Studios, Los Angeles, CA

All music published by Bantha Music (BMI)
Discs One, Two and Four co-published by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)

®, TM, © & ℗ 1993 Lucasfilm Ltd.
Manufactured in U.S.A.
Marketed and Distributed by Arista Records, Inc. on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox Film Scores.
Arista Records, Inc., a Bertelsmann Music Group Company
Printed in U.S.A.