Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology
| Star Wars Trilogy – The Original Soundtrack Anthology: "Star Wars" | |
|---|---|
Cover of the original 1993 release. |
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| Film score by John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra | |
| Released | 1993 |
| Genre | Classical |
| Label | Arista Records on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox Film Scores, a Bertelsmann Music Group Company |
| Producer | Nick Redman |
In 1993, 20th Century Fox Film Scores released a four-CD box set containing music from the original Star Wars Trilogy. This release marked the first time that the complete contents of the original double-LP releases of the scores from the first two films became available on CD. Disc one in the set was devoted to Star Wars, with further tracks on disc four.
Since every cue is recorded several times, usually with varying orchestral differences, the final decisions on what takes of cues are used and/or how they are edited to create the cues used was decided by the music editor Kenneth Wannberg. In the time between the original LP release and the Anthology's release, this breakdown was lost. Because of this, many takes of cues used on the Anthology are not the same. This is most obvious on the cue "The Throne Room", so the Anthology is technically not an exact replica of the LP, but is nearly so.
| Disc One | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |
| 1. | "20th Century Fox Fanfare with CinemaScope Extension" | ||
| 2. | "Main Title" | ||
| 3. | "Imperial Attack" | ||
| 4. | "The Desert" | ||
| 5. | "The Little People Work" | ||
| 6. | "The Princess Appears" | ||
| 7. | "The Land of the Sand People" | ||
| 8. | "The Return Home" | ||
| 9. | "Inner City" | ||
| 10. | "Mouse Robot/Blasting Off" | ||
| 11. | "Rescue of the Princess" | ||
| 12. | "The Walls Converge" | ||
| 13. | "Ben's Death/Tie Fighter Attack" | ||
| 14. | "Princess Leia's Theme" | ||
| 15. | "The Last Battle" | ||
| 16. | "The Throne Room/End Title" |
| Disc Four | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |
| 1. | "20th Century Fox Fanfare with CinemaScope Extension" | ||
| 2. | "Star Wars Main Title (Alternate)" | ||
| 4. | "A Hive of Villainy" | ||
| 5. | "Destruction of Alderaan" | ||
| 10. | "Cantina Band" | ||
| 12. | "Cantina Band #2" | ||
| 15. | "Standing By" |
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