Harry Potter ‘Original Soundtracks’ 16LP Box Set Announced
Harry Potter: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks I-VII, a 16LP box set including the soundtracks to all eight films in the blockbusting series, will be released on 29 November 2024.
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The collection will be available in four different colour variants, corresponding to the four Hogwarts Houses with red vinyl for Gryffindor, green vinyl for Slytherin, blue vinyl for Ravenclaw, and ellow Vinyl for Hufflepuff. Harry Potter: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks I-VII spans over 10 hours of music and is limited to 3,000 copies, exclusively at Rhino’s D2C Store and select WMG stores internationally.
Legendary five-time Academy® Award-winning composer John Williams wrote the scores for the first three films in the series, The Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), The Chamber of Secrets (2002), and The Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). The Sorcerer’s Stone and The Prisoner of Azkaban each earnt Williams a nomination in the category of Best Original Score at the Academy® Awards. The Sorcerer’s Stone: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album also achieved a Gold Certification from the RIAA.
Meanwhile, Academy® Award-nominated Patrick Doyle supplied the score for The Goblet of Fire (2005), while Nicholas Hooper created the music for The Order of the Phoenix (2007) and The Half-Blood Prince (2009). Two-time Academy Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat closed out the saga by scoring both The Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Part 2 (2011). The series has impressively generated billions of global streams to date.
Celebrating the legacy of Harry Potter music, American Songwriter retrospectively wrote, “Few things were as magical as watching the first three Potter films as a youngster. Even today, when watching them back with a sense of nostalgia, that same whimsy cuts deep, largely thanks to the stellar soundtrack by none other than John Williams.” Beyond cracking north of 81 million Spotify streams, the signature Hedwig’s Theme has taken on a life of its own. Classic FM attested, “As soon as we hear those opening notes of Hedwig’s Theme, we are immediately whisked away into Harry’s wizarding world through a flurry of strings and that haunting, solo celesta.”