The Lost World: Jurassic Park (film score)
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| Soundtrack album by John Williams | |||||
| Released | April 30, 1997 | ||||
| Recorded | 1996–1997 | ||||
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| Length | 1:13:15 | ||||
| Label | MCA, La-La Land | ||||
| Producer | John Williams | ||||
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Like its predecessor, The Lost World: Jurassic Park was scored by famed composer John Williams (a longtime collaborator with director Steven Spielberg), orchestrated by Conrad Pope and John Neufeld, and recorded in Los Angeles. Notably, Williams did not write a stereotypical sequel score, but instead developed a wildly different style for the different location, cast, and darker tone of the second Jurassic Park film.
The original soundtrack album — released by MCA Records on April 30, 1997 — features over seventy minutes of the film's music, including some material that was unused in the film's final cut (e.g. "The Hunt"). The single disc is packaged in a paper case that opens to reveal dioramas of jungle scenery and dinosaurs from the film. A John Williams collection edition, joint with the soundtrack to the first movie, was released by La-La Land Records on November 29, 2016, remastered and featuring additional unreleased music.
For this score, Williams largely avoided using the three major themes he had written for Jurassic Park. Quiet strains of "Theme from Jurassic Park" and the so-called "island fanfare" (Journey to the Island) are occasionally heard, with one scene even including a more robust statement copied note-for-note from the Jurassic Park cue "Jurassic Park Gate." But the original "Theme from Jurassic Park" and "Journey to the Island" are not heard until the film's final scene and end credits.
However, Williams did write two new primary themes for this score. The first is a rousing melody typically given to the horns, trombones, and strings over a churning accompaniment provided by low woodwinds and percussion. This theme is darker and less overtly heroic than the "island fanfare", but its role is similar in that it mainly underscores the expedition's adventurous nature. Williams intended to use this theme only four times in the film: for the arrival on the island, for the departure from the island, in the film's final moments, and in the end credits. But statements of this theme were tracked into several additional scenes so that it is heard more often than originally intended, and the version heard in the end credits (simply entitled "The Lost World") has been adapted and published for concert performances.
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