In Episode 23 we return to the wizarding world with the first of a two part listen to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Far from resting on prior achievements, the final John Williams Potter score knocks it out of the park, giving us everything from medieval music to waltzes, bebop jazz, and some of the most majestic flight music ever written. Join us, as we solemnly swear we are up to no good and journey with Harry and co for their third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Episode notes:

2:32 – Dan makes a big claim

6:35 – Some Azkaban homework

14:45 – Hedwig’s theme goes on holiday

16:23 – Something wicked this way hums

27:50 – Crumhorn, Sackbut, and Azkaban’s medieval sound

30:51 – Meeting Buckbeak

33:04 – Searching for the Fat Lady

35:33 – Some sleeping celeste

39:09 – The renaissance fair

46:49 – A Window to the Past

1:00:00 – Some serious Sirius

1:04:13 – Pettigrew’s motif

1:07:12 – Buckbeak’s brilliant flight

1:13:15 – Buckbeak’s equally brilliant second flight

1:17:26 – The Dementor’s dialectic. Thesis: aleatoric horror

1:21:39 – Antithesis: the angelic Patronus

1:23:06 – Synthesis: the Dementors converge

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