As before, this time Howard Shore responsible for the soundtrack and what can I say? For the sixth time convinced me to represent Shore with his creativity and skill, Middle-earth music.
This here soundtrack to the film "The Battle of the Five Armies" suggests skilfully the bridge to the Rings trilogy.
There are many already known themes taken from both series, varied or epic spread. New issues come here, as already mentioned by some, just added, but it can Shore course nothing, because the cinematic presentation has since relatively little space.
But the few new issues will fit seamlessly into the high quality of previous themes.
First, we get several new grandiose themes for Bard and the Men of Dale and the other a Celtic-sounding theme for the Lord of the Iron Mountains, Dain Ironfoot.
The soundtrack is generally very heavy, epic and dark and therefore that mood is only occasionally broken ("Shores of the Long Lake", "The Return Journey", "There and Back Again").
Highlights here again there to be sufficient and this time they are much more common than the two predecessors.
Although I have to attest that the Hobbit movies can compete musically not quite the Rings trilogy, so I can not recommend all three parts unreservedly continue and for me represents Battle of the Five Armies to highlight the Hobbit trilogy represents, both cinematically , and musically!
CD 1:
1 Fire and Water: 5:57 - *****
2 Shores of the Long Lake: 4:01 - *****
3 Beyond Sorrow and Grief (extended version) 4:11 - ****
4 Guardians of the Three (extended version): 5:47 - *****
5 The Ruins of Dale: 3:39 - *****
6 The Gathering of the Clouds (extended version): 5:52 - *****
7 Mithril: 3:08 - *****
8 Bred for War 3:19 - ****
9 A Thief in Night 4:14 - ****
10 The Clouds Burst 4:12 - *****
11 Battle for the Mountain: 4:38 - *****
CD 2:
1 The Darkest Hour: 5:31 - *****
2 Sons of Durin: 4:23 - *****
3 The Fallen 4:56 - ****
4 Ravenhill: 5:47 - ****
5 To the Death (extended version) 7:22 - *****
6 Courage and Widsom: 5:09 - *****
7 The Return Journey 4:16 - *****
8 There and Back Again 4:19 - ****
9 The Last Goodbye (Billy Boyd) 4:05 - *****
10 Iron Foot (extended version): 6:11 - *****
11 Dragon-sickness (bonus track) 3:51 - ****
12 Thrain (bonus track) 3:24 - ***
Power together: 5 stars !!!
