Product Description

This magical score for the big-screen adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia was composed by Harry Gregson-Williams, whose previous work includes Shrek and The Kingdom of Heaven.

Track Listing

1. The Blitz, 1940
2. Evacuating London
3. The Wardrobe
4. Lucy Meets Mr. Tumnus
5. A Narnia Lullaby
6. The White Witch
7. From Western Woods to Beaversdam
8. Father Christmas
9. To Aslan's Camp
10. Knighting Peter
11. The Stone Table
12. The Battle
13. Only the Beginning of the Adventure
14. I Can't Take It In
15. Wunderkind
16. Winter Light
17. Where

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15955 in Music
• Released on: 2005-12-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Customer Reviews

Most visibly brave
One of the big blockbusters of last year (and this year) was "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe." Great CGI, good acting on all fronts, and a suitably good soundtrack composed (mostly) by Harry Gregson-Williams. It has a flat moment here and there, but is overall an excellent product.

The movie's events can almost be traced by the soundtrack events: It opens with the ominous, rough "The Blitz, before switching to the delicate, sad strains of "Evacuating London." From there on, there are all kinds of songs, to match whatever is going on in the movie -- the peace and grandeur of Aslan's camp, the thrill of meeting Father Christmas, the sadness and horror of the sacrifice, the excitement of a coronation, and the beauty and sorrow of a doomed battle.

If it sounds glorious, it is. Gregson-Williams makes the music sound both fantastical and rich, as the movie needs. The most haunting song is only a minute and a quarter long: Tumnus' "Narnia Lullaby," a flute song backed by tribal drums. It starts off soft, but slowly grows more intense and eerie.

Oh, and a note to moviegoers: That exquisite, soaring ballad that you heard as the credits started was NOT Alanis Morrisette. It was electro-pop singer Imogen Heap. "Oh, empty my heart/I've got to make room for this feeling/So much bigger than me," she sings over an increasingly epic tip-hop backdrop. Man, she was robbed.

Not that Morrisette's song is unworthy -- her "Wunderkind" is a solid production, earthier and more rock-y, but still with an otherworldly charm. Her song sounds like an ode to Lucy, "And I am a magnet for all kinds of deeper wonderment/I am a wunderkind/I am a groundbreaker naïve enough to believe this/I am a princess on the way to my throne..."

Next to thise, Tim Finn (formerly of Split Enz) sounds jarringly un-ethereal. He just doesn't fit in with the other music; he might on another soundtrack, but here he just had me reaching for the skip button. Fortunately, Lisbeth Scott's brief, slightly mournful "Where" suits the soundtrack very well.

While one of the singers doesn't fit the soundtrack, the score for "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" is a solid one, with plenty of standout tracks.

Emotional Stuff
I am a great fan of film scores and have a collection with some fine soundtracks which include The LOTR Trilogy, Gladiator and Last of the Mohicans. This one is up there with the best of them. It has portrays great emotion within its tracks and is also very soothing at the same time.
I listen to the soundtrack when reading, I listen to it when studying and I even had it on during a cards night but I Digress! There are a number of tracks in particuler that I really like but the main one would have to be the one aptly title The Battle. This was a truly stirring piece and even in some truly great soundtracks I have yet to find one so well linked to the scene it portrays in the film.
Emotions during this piece are raging and in particuler the music accompnying the charge by Peter and his army at the beginning of the battle had the hackles rising on the back of my neck!!!
It has a real magical feel about it as the film is obviously supposed to project and this is of course in no smallpart due to its soundtrack. Other particuler pieces well done were the music accompnying the evacuation from London, the meeting between Lucy and Tumnus and the Narnian lullaby used to send Lucy to sleep.
All in all the soundtrack was just right in portraying tension, action, and a warm glow in your belly.
I have bought it from Amazon.......at the flick of a few buttons you can too!!

Beautiful
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is one of my favourite films (animated version) and I was extremely impressed with this film. I loved the music, hence purchasing the soundtrack.
Beautiful classical sounds including a lovely song by Alanis Morrisette.
Well worth buying