The Hanging Tree - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt.1 Score (James Newton Howard) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCzX_6kOgVY)

I've seen the film three times now and I'm incredibly frustrated that the best cue from it is NOT the film version. The album version of "The Hanging Tree" is the end credits version which features not only a much weaker sounding choir but they do not SING the lyrics which really gave me goosebumps when I first heard it in the film.

Why does this always happen? First Interstellar now this. I've been so excited to get this piece. I can only hope that now the recording sessions will be leaked or else I'll never get to have this glorious piece of music as it appears in the final film.

Well it seems the music room editors don't like the tracks anymore that the composers send in and start playing and mixing around with it. Making stuff louder, cutting stuff, duplicating stuff changing pitch, ...

If it is like this chances are high it isn't on the recording sessions either cause that usually features the music as the composer send it in (an intended).

These things happened in the past but nowadays seem common practice.

The bluray is in Dolby Atmos.
Regular TrueHD extension shows a lot of bleeding of sfx/dialogue in the front 3 channels (L, C, R).
Not much in the back/surround channels, but a lot of the core music is left out.
Any edit of the film version would just suck.

The film version also has footsteps that seem to add to the music. :laugh:
The end credits doesn't have the beat/footsteps.

They seem to be the same recording. Just mixed differently for album and film.

The opening worker/choir was significantly boosted for film effect.

A fancy edit of the end credits from the bluray (NOT DVD) would be tricky.
The music isn't very isolated/discreet, despite it being 7.1, Atmos 7.1 at that.
The strings in the background share the same space as the choir, so boosting the choir part will significantly, and audibly, boost the strings.