Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (soundtrack)
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| Film score by John Williams | |||||
| Released | 12 November 2002 | ||||
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| Length | 70:08 | ||||
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the film score to the 2002 film of the same name, composed by John Williams and conducted by William Ross .The score was originally supposed to be entirely conducted by Williams, but due to scheduling conflicts with the scoring of Steven Spielberg's film Catch Me If You Can, Ross was brought in to adapt Williams' already-written music and conduct the scoring sessions with the London Symphony Orchestra.
From what can be heard in the soundtrack, there are six new themes, representing "Fawkes the Phoenix", "The Chamber of Secrets", "Gilderoy Lockhart", "Dobby the House Elf", "The Spiders", and "Moaning Myrtle".
Upon its release, the soundtrack was available in one of five different collectible covers. Each cover featured a different character or characters packaged above the main cover featuring Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
The soundtrack was released on 12 November 2002, and was a Grammy Award nominee for the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media in 2003. It charted on the Billboard 200 at 81 and also charted at 5 on the Top Soundtracks Chart. In Japan, the album was certified gold by the RIAJ for 100,000 copies shipped to stores.
Though it does not appear on the soundtrack album, the Quidditch scene features a passage of a cue from "Zam the Assassin and the Chase Through Coruscant", a track from the soundtrack to Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, another score by Williams released earlier in the same year. It is not known why the cue was used; however, it is likely due to time constraints.
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