RCA VICTOR 09026-68772-2 105' 51"

The new cinematographic reinstatement of Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), with added scenes and new special effects, it has brought with himself a new issue in CD with all the score of the film (though that is what was seeming in the previous issue in a box, that already was containing all the Trilogy). The content of this double-CD is really spectacular; not only it contains all what is edited up until now but, together with unpublished fragments, are included alternative takes not used in the final cut of the film. Thus, for example, it is included a theme composed for the scene in which Luke sees a dusk with two suns, for which Williams had conceived a theme most athonal and dissonant, very good, but perhaps the relaxed music with which was finally mounted the scene, to indication of the director George Lucas, was more agreed with the tone of the film.
Other of the rareties that we can find in the CD is, for example, the recording of the first time that was interpreted the famous Star Wars Theme (Main Title) in the study, or the successive instrumentation and pace variations that suffered the mentioned theme (Main Title [Alternates Takes]).
Of Williams' music little can be added to all what has been written of, but we must to emphasize that thanks to George Lucas, who had very clear the kind of music what he wanted in the movie, and above all to Williams, it was returned toward a symphonism of great orchestra that was already in extinction process, and that without doubt is one of the greater points of the movie. And even though, today it would be unimaginable the film with a different and more agreed to the trends of the times music, in its day was a risky election. The score is exemplary; there are melodic themes like the one for Princess Leia (Princess Leiás Theme), epic themes as the March of the final Victory (The Throne Room), descriptive cues as all the part of the beginning of the desert (The Dune Sea of Tatooine) or the impressive sequence of the final Battle (The Battle of Yavin), and even there is place for music appeased with jazz connotations in the scene of the Saloon (Cantina Band).
It is undeniable that, upon speaking of film music, is spoken of "a before and of an after" of Star Wars: A New Hope. By the way, is someone in this Galaxy that may not have listened the principal theme of the saga?.