Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (soundtrack)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film score by John Williams
Released	12 November 2002
Recorded	August – September 2002 at Abbey Road Studios in London
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	70:08
Label	Warner Sunset; Nonesuch; Atlantic;
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Wizarding World soundtrack chronology

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' material from Philosopher's Stone and conduct the scoring sessions with the London Symphony Orchestra with orchestrations provided by Conrad Pope, Eddie Karam and Pete Anthony.

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Upon its release, the album was available in one of five different collectible character cards covers over the main insert. The cards included Harry, Ron with a Mandrake, Hermione, Dumbledore, and Hagrid with Fang.

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.^[1] In Japan, the album was certified gold by the RIAJ for 100,000 copies shipped to stores.^[2] In 2018, La-La-Land Records released a complete version of the score in a two-disc CD as part of a three soundtrack set featuring the scores for the first three Harry Potter films.

Track listing edit

Original Release edit

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Prologue: Book II and the Escape from the Dursleys"	3:31
2.	"Fawkes the Phoenix"	3:45
3.	"The Chamber of Secrets"	3:49
4.	"Gilderoy Lockhart"	2:05
5.	"The Flying Car"	4:08
6.	"Knockturn Alley"	1:47
7.	"Introducing Colin"	1:49
8.	"The Dueling Club"	4:08
9.	"Dobby the House Elf"	3:27
10.	"The Spiders"	4:32
11.	"Moaning Myrtle"	2:05
12.	"Meeting Aragog"	3:18
13.	"Fawkes Is Reborn"	3:19
14.	"Meeting Tom Riddle"	3:38
15.	"Cornish Pixies"	2:13
16.	"Polyjuice Potion"	3:52
17.	"Cakes for Crabbe and Goyle"	3:30
18.	"Dueling the Basilisk"	5:02
19.	"Reunion of Friends"	5:08
20.	"Harry's Wondrous World"	5:02
Total length:		70:08

Harry Potter - The John Williams Soundtrack Collection: Disc 4 edit

The Film Score
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Prologue: Book II"	1:37
2.	"Vernon Gathers Family / Enter Dobby"	2:15
3.	"Dobby Warns Harry"	2:17
4.	"The Escape from the Dursleys"	3:25
5.	"Magical Household / Letters from Hogwarts"	2:42
6.	"Borgin and Burkes"	0:53
7.	"Knockturn Alley"	1:51
8.	"Flourish and Blotts / Harry Meets Lucius Malfoy"	3:25
9.	"The Train Station / The Flying Car"	6:01
10.	"Whomping Willow / The Car Escapes"	1:55
11.	"Filch's Warning / Boys Receive Detention"	2:06
12.	"Introducing Colin / Errol Delivers Mail"	0:55
13.	"Gilderoy Lockhart"	2:09
14.	"Cornish Pixies"	2:15
15.	"Eat Slugs"	1:43
16.	"Hermione and Hagrid"	1:20
17.	"The Writing on the Wall"	3:21
18.	"Dumbledore's Caution"	2:01
19.	"The Library / Transformation Class"	4:03
20.	"Quidditch, Second Year"	6:15
21.	"Petrified Colin"	2:26
22.	"Moaning Myrtle Appears"	0:55
23.	"The Dueling Club [Extended Version]"	4:25
24.	"Harry Is A Parselmouth"	0:54
25.	"Petrified Justin"	2:37
26.	"Harry Meets Fawkes"	2:17
27.	"Christmas Break"	2:31
28.	"Cakes for Crabbe and Goyle / Polyjuice Potion"	4:14
29.	"Potion Wears Off / The Diary"	3:29

Harry Potter - The John Williams Soundtrack Collection: Disc 5 edit

The Film Score (continued)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Meeting Tom Riddle [Extended Version]"	4:06
2.	"Ransacked Dormitory / Petrified Hermione"	1:56
3.	"Dad's Cloak / Hagrid's Arrest"	4:55
4.	"Follow the Spiders"	1:16
5.	"Meeting Aragog"	3:21
6.	"The Spiders Attack"	3:55
7.	"Car Drives Off / It's A Basilisk"	2:14
8.	"Ginny Gets Snatched"	2:24
9.	"Myrtle's Tale"	1:31
10.	"The Chamber Opens / The Search for Ginny"	3:29
11.	"Dueling the Basilisk"	5:06
12.	"Fawkes Heals Harry"	1:34
13.	"Dumbledore and Harry"	2:42
14.	"Lucius Returns / Dobby Is Freed"	4:01
15.	"Reunion of Friends"	5:12

End Credits Suite
No.	Title	Length
16.	"Harry's Wondrous World"	5:02
17.	"Fawkes the Phoenix"	3:47
18.	"The Chamber of Secrets"	3:51

Additional Music
No.	Title	Length
19.	"Dobby the House Elf"	3:32
20.	"Prologue: Book II [Alternate]"	1:28
21.	"Filch's Warning [Alternate]"	0:22
22.	"Introducing Colin [Alternate]"	0:55
23.	"Transformation Class [Alternate Segment]"	0:58
24.	"Petrified Colin [Alternate]"	2:35
25.	"Christmas Break [Short Version]"	1:04
26.	"Follow the Spiders [Alternate]"	1:23
27.	"Car Drives Off [Alternate Segment]"	0:26
28.	"Fawkes Heals Harry [Alternate]"	1:33
29.	"Television Commercial No. 1"	0:38
30.	"Television Commercial No. 2"	0:30
31.	"Television Commercial No. 3"	1:07

References edit

^ Trust, Gary (24 November 2010). "Weekly Chart Notes: Rihanna, Gwyneth Paltrow, the Beatles". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
^ "GOLD ALBUM 他認定作品 2003年1月度" [Gold Albums, and other certified works. January 2003 Edition] (PDF). The Record (Bulletin) (in Japanese). 520. Chūō, Tokyo: Recording Industry Association of Japan: 13. 10 March 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.

[1] Trust, Gary (24 November 2010). "Weekly Chart Notes: Rihanna, Gwyneth Paltrow, the Beatles". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 25 November 2010.

[RIAJ-mar2003-2] "GOLD ALBUM 他認定作品 2003年1月度" [Gold Albums, and other certified works. January 2003 Edition] (PDF). The Record (Bulletin) (in Japanese). 520. Chūō, Tokyo: Recording Industry Association of Japan: 13. 10 March 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.

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