by Captain Cupcake » May 24th, 2015, 7:14 pm
[quote="Elton John"]There should be a 'legacy collection' with the music from this movie.[/quote]
Probably won't ever happen. DTV Disney films don't really get the luxury of such products like that, especially after so many years after the film's release. It's not enough of a high profile work to warrant a sudden official release of the entire background musical score after all that time.
The best chance there was for something close to that was if the composer, Nick Glennie-Smith, had passed around a bunch of promo discs to certain people and close friends or something(like with what happened to TLK 1 1/2's score). However, it seems individuals interested in the music will have to be contented with fan made rips(containing some lingering SFX/voices) of it put on youtube and such.
The score is actually one of the few positives I have with the film. It's not as grand and well-composed as the original's, but it's a serviceable output and has some thematic depth to it.
The melody of "Love Will Find A Way" is used as a reoccurring love theme/motif, and Simba himself has a new theme that appears every now and then in a few variants. Kiara and the Outlanders also have some minor material of their own that both get a handful renditions here and there. Finally, there's that action theme that's utilized a number of times, and you can really hear a prototype of "He's a Pirate" at play there, showcasing how that musical idea was slowly built upon by Zimmer's cohorts(and himself in some films he composed for) before PotC would get the final form of it.
There's also a reference to Hans Zimmer's "To Die For/Stampede" score of the original film during the movie's climax, which was pretty cool to hear.