NotATameLion
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My favorite score on the soundtrack is "The Door in the Air." It's lovely.
Listen to Prince Capsian Flees. That musical movement is used the majority of the time through Raid on the Castle, but people I've talked to only remember the segment of the The Battle that flirts into the movement towards the end marker. Why is that? The majority of Raid on the Castle is free of any recycling but people only remember that one strong theme because it was their favorite from the first movie. Same with The Door in the Air. Especially the first half of the track with the lilting of the brass horns, it is one of my favorite tracks long before segments of Only the Beginning of the Adventure are woven into it. Take the extended battle sequence from Th Duel all the way to the Return of the Lion and the recycled segments are only smaller parts of greater musical movements and are done in a sort of leitmotif fashion. How about that lilting segment at the beginning of Journey to the How? Miraz Crowned is an awesome, threatening track.
I don't think we're saying ALL of the themes are recycled. Obviously, there was absolutely ZERO Telmarine-ish music in the first film, so Williams had to make new themes for that, but they brought back the Pevensies' theme several times, along with the White Witch's during her little reappearance. And "Evacuating London" (with the slight vocals?) was played while the Pevensies were on the beach
I really like the first track. In the way The Blitz opened up LWW dramatically I feel Prince Caspian Flees does the same.
I agree! I also thought the musical theme they used for that scene was very effective.