The Tolkien Ensemble - There Is An Inn, A Merry Old Inn (The Complete Songs & Poems - CD1)

Track: There Is An Inn, A Merry Old Inn
Track Number: 18
Artist: The Tolkien Ensemble
Album: The Complete Songs & Poems
CD: 1
Year: 2006
Label: Membran Music, Classico Records
Producer: Morten Ryelund Sørensen

Complete Songs & Poems is a compilation album of all the songs from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings set to music by The Tolkien Ensemble. The album's four CDs rearrange the placement of the 69 songs that had previously been released on individual albums so they now appear in the same order as in the book.
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The Tolkien Ensemble (founded in 1995) is a Danish ensemble which aims to create "the world's first complete musical interpretation of the poems and songs from The Lord of the Rings". They published four CDs from 1997 to 2005, in which all the poems and songs of The Lord of the Rings are set to music. The project was approved by both the Tolkien family and HarperCollins Publishers. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark gave permission to use her illustrations in the CD layout.

Permanent members are Caspar Reiff and Peter Hall (composition, singing and guitar), Signe Asmussen (singing), Öyvind Ougaard (accordion), Katja Nielsen (double-bass), and Morten Ryelund Sørensen (conductor and violin).

The Ensemble has toured Europe in 2007, combining their own works with soundtrack pieces from Howard Shore's soundtrack to the film trilogy as well as live narration by Christopher Lee.

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Music

[leeham991]

I must prefer the tune used on the BBC radio series.