Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Water Tower Music*****

Alexandre Desplat ( The King's Speech, The Tree of Life) knocks it out of the Quidditch field with his new score to the final film in the boy-wizard franchise. Combining strong melodic lines, bold instrumental colours and dynamic orchestration, the award- winning French composer infuses the heroic with solemnity and the elegiac with lightness, capturing perfectly the film's potent mix of self-sacrifice, resurrection and showdowns with Voldemort. Unlike previous Potter scores by John Williams, Patrick Doyle and Nicholas Hooper, Desplat avoids easy sentiment and genre cliche to produce a superb score of remarkable emotional complexity and dramatic force. See watertower-music.com

Download tracks: Statues, Harry's Sacrifice, Showdown