Star Wars Episode VI: Return of The Jedi (soundtrack) - Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology

Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology

Star Wars Trilogy – The Original Soundtrack Anthology: "Return of the Jedi"

Cover of the original 1993 release.
Film score by John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra
Released 1993
Recorded 1983
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 three in the set was devoted to Return of the Jedi, with further tracks on disc four.

  1. "20th Century Fox Fanfare with CinemaScope Extension" - 0:23
  2. "Main Title/Approaching the Death Star" - 5:22
  3. "Han Solo Returns (At the Court of Jabba the Hutt)" - 4:09
  4. "Fight in the Dungeon" - 3:41
  5. "The Return of the Jedi" - 5:02
  6. "The Emperor Arrives" - 2:07
  7. "The Death of Yoda" - 6:05
  8. "Parade of the Ewoks" - 3:27
  9. "Luke and Leia" - 4:47
  10. "The Emperor Confronts Luke" - 3:29
  11. "Into the Trap" - 2:39
  12. "First Ewok Battle/Fight With the Fighters" - 7:24
  13. "The Forest Battle" - 4:04
  14. "The Final Duel/Into the Death Star" - 3:40
  15. "The Emperor's Death" - 2:44
  16. "Darth Vader's Death" - 2:33
  17. "Through the Flames" - 1:39
  18. "Leia Breaks the News/Funeral Pyre for a Jedi" - 2:22
  19. "Ewok Celebration/Finale" - 7:58
Bonus Tracks (disc four of the same set)
  1. "Heroic Ewok/The Fleet Goes Into Hyperspace"
  2. "The Ewok Battle"
  3. "Lapti Nek"
  4. "Faking the Code"
  5. "Brother and Sister"
  6. "Leia is Wounded/Luke and Vader Duel"
  7. "The Return of the Jedi (Alternate)"
  8. "Leia Breaks the News (Alternate)/Funeral Pyre for a Jedi (Film Version)"
  9. "Ewok Celebration (Film Version) /End Credits (Film Version)"
    • The second part of track twenty-one, "End Credits (Film Version)," is from The Empire Strikes Back.

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