Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Remastered Soundtrack

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Remastered Soundtrack
Publication information
Publisher	Walt Disney Records
Release date	2018
Media type	CD

The Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Remastered Soundtrack is a soundtrack album that was released by Walt Disney Records in 2018.

Background

After Walt Disney Records reacquired the rights from Sony Classical, they put together a team at Skywalker Sound, whitch consisted of Leslie Ann Jones, all the while being supervised by Shawn Murphy, to create remastered versions of the OST albums for the first 6 films. These were not just retransfers of the OST master like the Sony Ultimate Digital Collection had been, rather these would be ground-up rebuilds from the original session elements, newly transferred and remastered. Not much information about the behind-the-scenes creation of these releases is available to the public yet, so it is unknown what tapes were transferred for these, just that they were the "best-available", and that they contained the original Eric Tomlinson film mixes, and not the John Neal mixes that were used on the original OST master.

Track Listing and cue breakdown

1. Main Theme – 5:20
   1. 0:00-2:07 : [1m2] Main Title
   2. 2:07-end : [12m2] End Titles
2. Imperial Attack – 6:10
   1. 0:00-3:14 : [1m3] The War (microedited : missing 23 seconds)
   2. 3:14-end : [1m4-2m1] The Escape Hatch
3. Princess Leia's Theme – 4:18
   1. 0:00-end : The Princess Theme
4. The Desert and the Robot Auction – 2:51
   1. 0:00-0:52 : [1m5-2m1] Desert Song (ending cuts off early : missing 3 seconds)
   2. 0:52-end : [2m3 Rev.] More Little People
5. Ben's Death and TIE Fighter Attack – 3:46
   1. 0:00-2:03 : [9m3-10m1] Ben's Death
   2. 2:03-end : [10m2] Here They Come
6. The Little People Work – 4:02
   1. 0:00-end : [2m3 New] The Little People
7. Rescue of the Princess – 4:46
   1. 0:00-2:05 : [8m2 Rev.] The Rescue
   2. 2:05-end : [9m2] The Swashbucklers
8. Inner City – 4:12
   1. 0:00-1:34 : [7m1 New] Is it a Bird? (ending cuts off early : missing 2 seconds)
   2. 1:34-3:07 : [4m2] Obi-Wan Kenobi (ending cuts off early : missing 2 seconds)
   3. 3:07-end : [5m6 Rev.] The Inner City (microedited: missing 30 seconds)
9. Cantina Band – 2:44
   1. 0:00-end : "Cantina Band" (ending artificially faded out)
10. The Land of the Sandpeople – 2:50
    1. 0:00-1:01 : [3m3 Rev.] The Sand Speeder (ending cuts off early : missing 8 seconds)
    2. 1:01-end : [3m4-4m1 Rev.] The Sandman Attacks (microedited : missing 20 seconds)
11. Mouse Robot and Blasting Off – 4:01
    1. 0:00-2:01 : [7m2] The Mouse Robot
    2. 2:01-end : [6m1] Blasting Away (microedited : missing 15 seconds)
12. The Return Home – 2:46
    1. 0:00-end : [4m4A] A Home Destroyed
13. The Walls Converge – 4:31
    1. 0:00-2:58 : [8m4] The Walls Converge (ending cuts off early : missing 9 seconds)
    2. 2:58-end : [8m3 Rev.] The Water Snake
14. The Princess Appears – 4:04
    1. 0:00-1:50 : [3m1 Rev.] The Princess Appears
    2. 1:50-end : [3m2 New] Lost R2
15. The Last Battle – 12:05
    1. 0:00-1:55 : [8m2 New] More Rescue (ending cuts off early : missing 5 seconds)
    2. 1:55-4:25 : [9m1] Ben Creeps Around (ending cuts off early : missing 9 seconds)
    3. 4:25-7:38 : [11m2 Rev.] Approaching the Target (ending cuts off early : missing 11 seconds)
    4. 7:38-end : [12m1] The Last Battle
16. The Throne Room and End Title – 5:28
    1. 0:00-1:45 : [12m2] End Titles (only first 1:45)
    2. 1:45-2:16 : [12m2X] End Titles
    3. 2:16-end : [12m2] End Titles (only last 3:13)

Total Time: 74:58