Michael Giacchino - Star Trek: Into Darkness (OST 2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Michael Giacchino - Star Trek: Into Darkness (OST 2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Michael Giacchino - Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 44:08 minutes | 939 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

The score is notable for featuring orchestration that contains piano, the first Star Trek score to do so since Cliff Eidelman’s score to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), as well as a choir singing entirely in the Klingon language (which appears on the track entitled "The Qo'noS Wartet"). The score also contains interpolations of the "Theme from Star Trek", written by Alexander Courage.

Over a month prior to the commencement of the film's principal photography, composer Michael Giacchino announced that he would return to score the sequel to 2009's Star Trek. One of Giacchino's main tasks with the sequel, later entitled Star Trek Into Darkness, was to evolve the themes from the previous installment and create new ones to reflect the film's darker tone. "There’s a moment when the Enterprise is taking off, and they are going off on their mission, and I thought 'This would be fun to bring back that similar moment from the first film,' but it wasn’t working. It was too much of an adventure feel, and it was all about saying 'Okay, well how do I do that same idea but in a darker way?' It’s all about finding the right chords and substitutions that you are using with those melodies – and how did that alter the melody? It’s constantly trying to bend and twist things so you feel that theme from the previous film, but it’s being used in a different way. You have a different emotional response to it. If I had just used it exactly as it was, it wouldn’t have been the right emotional response that you would want for the audience. So it was about twisting things in a way to make it fit right." A specific example of this was during the composition of the track "London Calling".