![]() Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien. "Liquid Tolkien: Music, Tolkien, Middle-earth, and More Music". Archived from the original on 4 November 2007. Music of The Lord of the Rings film series#Symphony (symphony based on music from the Peter Jackson films).Blaeserphilharmonie Regensburg conducted by Joerg Seggelke (2007).The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Warble (2001).Ensemble vents et Percussion de Quebec conducted by Rene' Joly (ATMA, 1997).The Danish Concert Band conducted by Jørgen Misser Jensen (Copenhagen, 1994).Dutch Royal Military Band conducted by Pierre Kuijpers (Ottavo, 1989) *The composer served as music advisor for this recording.In celebration of the symphony's 25th anniversary, De Meij conducted the Performance of the piece by the bands of Valparaiso University. The second movement, Bratman wrote, presents the character of a place, the Elvish wood of Lothlorien, "which, like everyone from Bo Hansson to Enya, de Meij seems to hear as steamy." He made an exception for the fourth movement, "Journey in the Dark", which does narrate a story, the dangerous passage through the Mines of Moria. Thus, three of the movements introduce characters – Gandalf, Gollum, and (the finale) the Hobbits. 7 The Dreams of Gandalf, it mainly aims not to tell the story but to create a mood. He stated, too, that like another symphony based on The Lord of the Rings, the Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen's 1996 Symphony No. The Tolkien scholar David Bratman wrote in 2010 that the symphony is "so popular" that it has attracted four recordings, "something almost unheard of for a contemporary classical work." He commented that the music, though Dutch, is in the tradition of British concert band and symphonic composers like Malcolm Arnold and Gustav Holst. The musicologist Estelle Jorgensen wrote that while the symphony has a programmatic aspect, it is "also formally interesting as sheer instrumental sound." An orchestral version of the piece, orchestrated by Henk de Vlieger, was premiered and recorded in 2001 by the London Symphony Orchestra to coincide with the release of the 2001 film, The Fellowship of the Ring. It has been recorded by several orchestras. In 1989 the symphony won the Sudler Composition Award. The CD by the military band Koninklijke Militaire Kapel helped give the symphony worldwide acclaim. The result is a "striving, rising theme". Gandalf (The Wizard): the theme has the note sequence G-A-D-A-F, "Gandalf" as far as can be formed with the notes A to G.The symphony consists of five movements, each illustrating a personage or an important episode from the book: It premiered in 1988 with the Groot Harmonieorkest van de Belgische Gidsen conducted by Norbert Nozy. 1 The Lord of the Rings is the first symphony for concert band written by Johan de Meij, and one of several works of classical music based on J. 1 The Lord of the Rings, by Johan de Meij ![]()
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