John Williams Conducts John Williams: The Star Wars Trilogy [Soundtrack]

Track Listings
1. Star Wars-Main Theme    
2. Princess Leia    
3. The Little People    
4. The Imperial March    
5. Yoda's Theme    
6. Parade of the Ewoks    
7. The Asteroid Field    
8. Luke and Leia    
9. The Cantina Band    
10. Here They Come!    
11. Jabba The Hutt    
12. The Forest Battle    
13. Throne Room and Finale    

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John Williams Conducts John Williams: The Star Wars Trilogy
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Best of Episodes IV - VI
  • If you don't want to buy each score, get this compilation
  • una gran seleccion de star wars
  • Star Wars Music Sampler
  • You just want more!
 John Williams Conducts John Williams: The Star Wars Trilogy
John Williams , and The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra
Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002712
Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

  1. Star Wars-Main Theme
  2. Princess Leia
  3. The Little People
  4. The Imperial March
  5. Yoda's Theme
  6. Parade of the Ewoks
  7. The Asteroid Field
  8. Luke and Leia
  9. The Cantina Band
  10. Here They Come!
  11. Jabba The Hutt
  12. The Forest Battle
  13. Throne Room and Finale

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Best of Episodes IV - VI.......2007-05-16

It has been said before -- if you want the best all on one CD, then this is the best sampler to get.

Conducted by the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra, there shines through an obvious love of the material being played. These are among the best versions I've ever heard of these songs and the production quality is first rate.

My only slight niggle would be that at times, the horn section seem to come through a little too strong, but that might just be my tastes and my sound system. And it is not enough to keep me from giving it 5 stars. All the best from 3 of the best movie soundtracks in the past 30 years.

4 out of 5 stars If you don't want to buy each score, get this compilation.......2006-09-29

This is a great representation of the excellent music Williams wrote for the original trilogy. Many of these tracks are completely fantastic. There are a couple of tracks that I wouldn't have added to this compilation in favor of adding others (the sand people track is pretty boring) and the cantina music ends with some really weird sounding synth effects or something, but the rest of the album is great. I'd give it 4 1/2 if I could.

5 out of 5 stars una gran seleccion de star wars .......2005-01-08

Lo primero que llama la atencion es la orquesta, es un conjunto selecto de interpretes de Los angeles, San francisco y otros que reunidos forman esta Skywalker Symphony Orchestra que instalada en el rancho de george lucas se dio la tarea de registrar este conjunto de temas de Star Wars.
Y el resultado es esplendido hay que decirlo, el sonido es excelente, existe gran fiato y la orquesta suena grandiosa.
La seleccion esta bien hecha, como es una grabacion de 1991 se obto por recordar lo mejor y grandes momentos, asi no podia dejarse de lado la musica de la cantina una pieza exquicita que se le agrego algunos toques con sintetizadores y suena increible. Esta parades of Ewoks y little people que son muy entretenidas llenas de un encanto casi infantil, nada que comentar respecto de los temas inolvidables de la princesa Leia, de Yoda y el de Luke y Leia, hermosos, la cautivante marcha imperial y la apoteosis de la batalla en los bosques de Endor. Ademas la voragine de campo de asteroides y here they come!, y el exquisito solo de tuba en Jabba the hutt. Para finalizar el principio y el fin, el tema principal es sin lugar a dudas una pieza que no podra ser igualada, increible, y para finalizar throne room en una presentacion incomparable.
Es un CD grandioso, que hace Williams mejor director junto aun grupo grandioso de interpretes para una seleccion sin igual.

4 out of 5 stars Star Wars Music Sampler.......2003-07-12

The Star Wars Trilogy: John Williams Conducts John Williams is a 13-track "sampler" of selected orchestral arrangements from the 1977-83 "Classic" Episodes of George Lucas' space opera set "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away." Not to be confused with either the Varese Sarabande 1983 recording with a similar title, this 1990 Sony Classical offering showcases the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the composer.

While none of the material here is surprising - we HAVE heard all these themes before in the London Symphony Orchestra-performed original soundtracks in their various incarnations - the Skywalker Symphony (a group of talented musicians assembled especially for this performance) performs Williams' concert hall arrangements with clarity and love for the material. There was also an attempt to add more variety to the 13 tracks to further avoid confusion with the other "Star Wars Trilogy" single CD collection. The Cantina Band (that jazzy Benny Goodman style bauble from Star Wars) and the bouncy The Little People are here, as well as the more "traditional" Main Title, Princess Leia's Theme, Yoda's Theme, and the famous Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme). Particularly impressive is the concert hall arrangement of The Throne Room/Finale, which is very different from the film version.

While I prefer the individual film scores from either the Soundtrack Anthology or the Special Edition collections, for listeners on the go, younger music lovers, or newcomers to John Williams' music, The Star Wars Trilogy: John Williams Conducts John Williams is still worth a listen.

4 out of 5 stars You just want more!.......2003-03-04

That's right. When it ends, you just want more, and more.

I gave it a 4 stars rating, only because of this. I have all the music from Star Wars, and definitely I think it's a crime to make a compilation from such a terrific soundtrack. You MUST have the entire score.

However, if you can only get this one (as it was my case around 10 years ago), it is an excellent example. For a limited space, I would have chosen the same themes.
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    Manufacturer: SONY CLASSICAL
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0002W2UGI

    Product Description

    1) Main Theme 2) Princess Leia 3) The little people 4) The imperial march 5) Yoda's Theme 6) Parade of the ewoks 7) The asteroid field 8) Luke and Leia 9) The cantina Band 10) Here they come! 11) Jabba the hutt 12) The forest battle 13) Throne room and finale

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