THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA:PRINCE CASPIAN features an unforgettable and heart-pounding score by GRAMMY AWARDŽ -winning and GOLDEN GLOBEŽ nominated composer Harry Gregson-Williams plus the brand new SWITCHFOOT single and video "This Is Home"Gregson-Williams is powerful and original - yet editing could have been better I love Harry Gregson-William's soundtracks - he has a fresh, original method of composing which is exciting to listen to. When I saw Prince Caspian, several things he does with the music hit me as genius, and I instantly bought the soundtrack. And there is my "yet." Like many soundtracks, it seems the editing process was more of a "sampling" of the music in Prince Caspian - which is irritating to no avail! For example, the theme that caught my attention most of all was the mouse's theme, with the muted trumpet. What a great choice! Yet the soundtrack only slightly alludes to the theme - twice - whereas the movie contains an extended solo during the raid on the castle. The track named after that event doesn't even contain a snippet of that theme - for shame! It is reminiscent of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, in which the theme of the movie can be found ONCE. While in Prince Caspian you can hear the main theme (hundreds of times), additional colour and texture the composer so brilliantly entwined into the music of this movie has been excluded from the soundtrack. Although I still recommend it, I will always be frustrated at the soundtrack-editing process. It makes no sense to me.
