Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Warner Sunset/Nonesuch/Atlantic Records is proud to present ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, the follow-up to last year’s RIAA gold certified ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE.
Legendary film composer John Williams (Jaws, Star Wars, E.T.) received an Academy Award nomination for the first film’s extraordinary score, and the new soundtrack sees him expanding upon the original themes to create even more powerful and evocative musical backgrounds. In addition, orchestrator/conductor William Ross will be adapting a number of Williams’ themes for what is certain to be among the year’s biggest motion picture releases.
ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS will be available with five collectible covers. All editions will feature a Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets poster.

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Another multi-gazillion-dollar Hollywood franchise, another chapter in the remarkable career of John Williams. Though he’s already been responsible for scoring some of the most overwhelmingly successful film series of all time, in tackling the second installment of the Harry Potter saga, Williams once again proves why his name is held in such high regard in scoring circles. While he utilizes the themes he established in Sorcerer’s Stone, Williams’s restless inventiveness still manages to cast this chapter in a fresh new musical light. Since many of the cues here are action or atmospheric-oriented, and thus lacking in need for strong melodic hooks, the veteran composer’s mastery of orchestral color–and no small amount of stylistic reinvention–infuses the proceedings with a sense of wholeness and a surprising maturity that’s a key element in conjuring up the film’s crucial suspension of disbelief. Harry Potter may be but a fictional wizard, but John Williams proves yet again he’s the real thing. –Jerry McCulley