Akilak - Separatists

Advantages: John Williams' score, great performance by the LSO
Disadvantages: Tracks don't follow the film's action

...of the Heroes (Track 3) and the eerie Palpatine's Teachings (Track 6)). As with the previous single CD soundtracks from the Prequel Trilogy, this 2005 Sony Classical offering has its virtues and vices; once again the quality of the music itself is matchless, but the way it's organized on this CD leaves a true soundtrack fan feeling, well, a bit cheated. You see, in all the non-Special Edition/Ultimate Edition "first release versions" except the Return of the Jedi soundtrack, album producer Williams splices the Star Wars theme to a cue that is not the one heard in the film or on the later, more expensive 2-CD editions. For instance, in the first track, Star Wars and The Revenge of the Sith, instead of hearing the music heard when the small Jedi Starfighters flown by Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi attack the Separatists' flagship in orbit... Read review

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