Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. 20th Century Fox Fanfare
2. Main Title/Rebel Blockade Runner Medley
3. Imperial Attack
4. The Dune Sea of Tatooine/Jawa Sandcrawler Medley
5. The Moisture Farm
6. The Hologram/Binary Sunset Medley
7. Landspeeder Search/Attack of the Sand People Medley
8. Tales of a Jedi Knight/Learn About the Force Medley
9. Burning Homestead
10. Mos Eisley Spaceport
11. Cantina Band
12. Cantina Band #2
13. Binary Sunset (Alternate) Medley
14. Binary Sunset (Alternate)

Disc 2:

1. Princess Leia's Theme
2. The Millennium Falcon/Imperial Cruiser Pursuit
3. Destruction of Alderaan
4. The Death Star/The Stormtroopers Medley
5. Wookie Prisoner/Detention Block Ambush Medley
6. Shootout in the Cell Bay/Dianoga
7. The Trash Compactor
8. The Tractor Beam/Chasm Crossfire Medley
9. Ben Kenobi's Death/Tie Fighter Attack Medley
10. The Battle of Yavin
11. The Throne Room/End Title Medley

Disc 3:

1. 20th Century Fox Fanfare
2. Main Title/The Ice Planet Hoth Medley
3. The Wampa's Lair/Vision of Obi-Wan/Snowspeeders Take Flight Medley
4. The Imperial Probe/Aboard the Executor Medley
5. The Battle of Hoth Medley (Ion Cannon/Imperial Walkers/Beneath the AT-AT/Escape in the Millennium Falcon)
6. The Asteroid Field
7. Arrival on Dagobah
8. Luke's Nocturnal Visitor
9. Han Solo and the Princess
10. Jedi Master Revealed/Mynock Cave Medley
11. The Training of a Jedi Knight/The Magic Tree Medley

Disc 4:

1. The Imperial March
2. Yoda's Theme
3. Attacking a Star Destroyer
4. Yoda and the Force
5. Imperial Starfleet Deployed/City in the Clouds Medley
6. Lando's Palace
7. Betrayal at Bespin
8. Deal with Dark Lord
9. Carbon Freeze/Darth Vader's Trap /Departure of Boba Fett Medley
10. The Clash of Lightsabers
11. Rescue from Cloud City/Hyperspace Medley
12. The Rebel Fleet/End Title Medley

Disc 5:

1. 20th Century Fox Fanfare
2. Main Title/Approaching The Death Star/Tatooine Rendezvous Medley
3. The Droids Are Captured
4. Bounty for a Wookiee
5. Han Solo Returns
6. Luke Confronts Jabba/Den Of The Rancor/Sarlacc Sentence Medley
7. The Pit of Carkoon/Sail Barge Assault Medley
8. The Emperor Arrives/The Death of Yoda/Obi-Wan's Revelation Medley
9. Alliance Assembly
10. Shuttle Tydirium Approaches Endor
11. Speeder Bike Chase/Land of the Ewoks Medley
12. The Levitation/Threepio's Bedtime Story Medley
13. Jabba's Baroque Recital
14. Jedi Rocks
15. Sail Barge Assault (Alternate Version)

Disc 6:

1. Parade of the Ewoks
2. Luke and Leia 4:46
3. Brother and Sister/Father and Son/The Fleet Enters Hyperspace/Heroic Ewok Medley
4. Emperor's Throne Room
5. The Battle Of Endor I Medley (Into the Trap/Forest Ambush/Scout Walker Scramble/Prime Weapon Fires)
6. The Lightsaber/The Ewok Battle
7. The Battle Of Endor II Medley (Leia Is Wounded - The Duel Begins/Overtaking the Bunker/The Dark Side Beckons/The Emperor's Death)
8. The Battle Of Endor III Medley (Superstructure Chase/Darth Vader's Death/The Main Reactor)
9. Leia's News/Light of the Force Medley
10. Victory Celebration/End Title Medley
11. Ewok Feast/Part of the Tribe Medley
12. The Forest Battle (Concert Suite)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11083 in Music
• Released on: 2004-09-20
• Number of discs: 6
• Format: Soundtrack

Amazon.co.uk Review
Given that it's largely credited with reinventing Hollywood--or at least fostering its overweening box office expectations--it's hard to imagine that the genesis of George Lucas' sprawling, multi-billion dollar Star Wars franchise was once considered a risky studio proposition at best. But Lucas himself has wisely singled out the robust, retro-romantic music of composer John Williams as the unlikely artistic linchpin that holds all of the saga's disparate dramatic, thematic and technical elements firmly together. Boxed together here then are three of the most successful and influential film scores of modern Hollywood, work that draws as much on Williams' masterful sense of classical music history as it does his own well-studied melodic and arranging instincts. Each of the three double-disc collections here contains all of the music written for Star Wars: A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (and even Alfred Newman's introductory "Fox Fanfare"), newly upgraded via Direct Stream Digital remastering that adds stunning new presence and clarity to Williams' rousing, epochal scores. Each chapter also features a lenticular 3-D cover and newly designed fold-out film poster; the ultimate musical compendium of the original Star Wars triptych. --Jerry McCulley

Album Description
With the long-awaited DVD release of the first three films in the Star Wars trilogy, come the CD soundtrack companions. This box set includes three 2-CD sets each with an exclusive lenticular cover. Each set also includes never-before-seen Star Wars images and a fold-out poster--a different poster in each CD. Each set also includes a link to an exclusive screen saver web site. All the music has been re-mastered using the latest DSD technology.

Customer Reviews

NOT More of the same....
....nope - this is one case where the re-mastering shows.

Using the latest DSD processing, these soundtracks (which are track-for-track identical to the Special Edition SOundtracks released on 1997) have been given a good dust-off and now sound better than ever. Even the Return of the Jedi Soundtrack sounds astonishing, although it seemed to generally have the worst sound quality in the 1997 releases.

Why only 4 stars then? OK - here we go with a whinge or two..

1) There is STILL some music missing - the Return of the Jedi 2-disc set is missing some cues, most noticeably Lapti Nek and the original Ewok Celebration

2) The more the sets are re-mastered and tinkered with, the more the original sound quality disappears, which in the case of Star Wars (or Episode IV, if you must...) is a bit of a shame - there was a very distinct sound on the original releases which is missed....

3) The perfunctory extra content - there is nothing that isn't already available somewhere else....with the minor exception of the physical contents of the booklets...

These things aside, this is a set well worth spending a few quid on, even if (like me) you already have the 1997 re-issues.

May the force be with you...

Star Wars sound tracks CD ROM set.
Just to add to gorkyoftrebizond from Trabzon, Turkey review, I find this CD ROM the best in quality sound.

It takes you through the whole Star Wars films musically which includes the Cantina Band (when Luke and Ben meet Han and Chewie in the bar) and their second number played (CD 1 disk one) but it also includes the other rare Darth Vader March theme(CD2). These tracks were only available from US Sources in CD singles before this stunning collection.

Side one takes you from the Fox introduction then the music will take you through the films. Side one on each CD takes you roughly through the first part of the film or half way through.
Each CD side is about an hour or hour and fifteen minutes long and it is the whole score of each part of the film.

It is highly collectable and comes with the 3D CD cover and inlcudes the poster from the original films (mostly US release) but I found that the websites for the screensavers did not recognise my CD's to download. Very dissapointing as I inserted both CD's into my drive but could not get joy from this.

If you are planning a Star Wars night or want to use the music for a quiz then I can highly recommend this 3 CD set to you; even if you are just a Star Wars collector then this is for you.

If you know the films music you will already know the tracks, it is worth buying.

May the Force be with YOU.

More than worth the price.
Considering that there are Cds out there that cost the same but contain,(at best)12 songs, this CD is more than worth the money with 75 tracks.
Not to mention that some tracks contain more than one piece of music.
To be fair, the CDs do contain a fair amount of filler material that you probably won't listen to. However these are overshadowed by the amount of wonderful atmospheric tracks.

I would recommend the following tracks:

Disc 1:
2. Main Title/Rebel Blockade Runner Medley
4. The Dune Sea of Tatooine/Jawa Sandcrawler Medley
10. Mos Eisley Spaceport
11. Cantina Band

Disc 2:
9. Ben Kenobi's Death/Tie Fighter Attack Medley
10. The Battle of Yavin

Disc 3:
2. Main Title/The Ice Planet Hoth Medley
5. The Battle of Hoth Medley (Ion Cannon/Imperial Walkers/Beneath the AT-AT/Escape in the Millennium Falcon)

Disc 4:
1. The Imperial March
12. The Rebel Fleet/End Title Medley (The under appreciated Star Wars Classic)

Disc 5:
8. The Emperor Arrives/The Death of Yoda/Obi-Wan's Revelation Medley
14. Jedi Rocks (although the scene its in is dreadful)

Disc 6:
7. The Battle Of Endor II Medley (Leia Is Wounded - The Duel Begins/Overtaking the Bunker/The Dark Side Beckons/The Emperor's Death)
10. Victory Celebration/End Title Medley

If you're a Star Wars fan this is more than a bargain and if you're not its an excellent example of Epic Film music from one of the World's best modern composers.