S3: the musical anthology of His Dark Materials
Composer : Lorne Balfe
Silva Screen Records
December 2, 2022 (digital)

Tracklist for this edition:
  1. A Parallel Sky
  1. A New World
  2. Emissaries
  3. Asriel’s Republic
  4. The Land of the Dead
  5. Father Gomez
  6. The Boatman
  7. Opposing The Authority
  8. General Ogunwe
  9. Lord Roke
  10. The Gallivespians
  11. Metatron
  12. The Banished Angel
  13. The Threads That Bind
  14. Love Across Worlds

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S2: the soundtrack
Composer : Lorne Balfe
Silva Screen Records
December 20, 2020 (digital)
January 26, 2021 (CD, Silva Screen Records)

Tracklist for this edition:
  1. A Parallel Sky
  2. Tortured Witch
  3. Land of Spectres
  4. He's a Murderer
  5. Magisterium's New Era
  6. The Chosen Two
  7. The Witches' Envoy
  8. Study the Dark Matter
  9. Kiss the Ring
  10. Journey Ahead
  11. A Once Great City
  12. O Little Knife
  13. Queen of the Southern Lakes
  14. The Other Side of the Window
  15. Let's Do It Together
  16. Matter of Dust
  17. The Knife Will Protect You
  18. The Key of the Multiverse
  19. Giacomo Paradisi
  20. Kaisa Reveal
  21. Beyond the Aurora
  22. The Female Scholar
  23. Fly, Spectres!
  24. Farewell
  25. Interdimensional Travelers
  26. Indomitable Courage
  27. My Child
  28. A Mystic Explorer
  29. I Had a Best Friend
  30. Lee's Choice
  31. Beyond the Waterfall
  32. Fates Intertwined
  33. The End of Tyranny
  34. Goodbye Explorer
  35. The Eve of War

The CD edition also includes the tracks from the Anthology (see below)

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S2: the musical anthology of His Dark Materials
Composer: Lorne Balfe
Silva Screen Records
November 8, 2020 (digital)
Tracklist for this edition:
  1. The Subtle Knife (4:54)
  2. Play the Serpent (3:00)
  3. Dark Materials: Between the Worlds (1:34)
  4. A Spectre’s Playground (2:29)
  5. A New Cardinal Rises (3:58)
  6. The Witch Queen of Lake Lubana (3:31)
  7. Children of The Prophecy (3:01)
  8. The City In The Sky (5:01)
  9. The Shaman (3:53)

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S1: the soundtrack
Composer: Lorne Balfe
Silva Screen Records
January 2020
     Including 2 CDs and 33 tracks (also available for download), this edition covers the themes featured in the first season of the TV-series, with the notable exception of opening credits.

Tracklist for this edition:
CD1
  1. Iorek's Armor
  2. The Great Flood
  3. Lyra's Jordan
  4. Everyone is Special
  5. The Golden Compass
  6. Where Is Roger?
  7. Readying the Boats
  8. Leaving Jordan
  9. Tell Me Where He Is
  10. Voyages
  11. Cocktail Party
  12. I Will Succeed
  13. There Was a Gyptian Nurse
  14. Daemons to Dust
  15. Clear Your Mind
  16. The List
  17. Look to the Stars
CD2
  1. Gateway to the North
  2. You Loved a Witch
  3. Iorek Breaks Loose
  4. Some Sort of Ghost
  5. Polar Adventure
  6. The Silver Guillotine
  7. Battle of Bolvangar
  8. Parting Ways
  9. Armored Claws
  10. Assuming The Mantle
  11. Airships Approaching
  12. Fog and Ice
  13. Bridge to the Stars
  14. The End of the Magisterium
  15. Crossing Worlds
  16. Into The Sky

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S1: the musical anthology of His Dark Materials
Composer: Lorne Balfe
Silva Screen Records
November 2019
     An introduction to the music of the series, this edition gather artists such as Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, cellists Tina Guo and Peter Gregson, violinist Lindsey Stirling, classical horn player Sarah Willis, Richard Harvey and Vanya Moneva's Ethnic Bulgarian Choir...
     The edition is available for download, as CD standard edition (with an alternative cover included) and as limited vinyl edition - to be released for the Record Store Day 2020, on June 20, 2020.

Tracklist for this edition:
  1. His Dark Materials
  2. The Alethiometer
  3. Lyra: The Child of Prophecy
  4. The Settling of a Daemon
  5. Scholastic Sanctuary
  6. The General Oblation Board
  7. The Life of Roger Parslow
  8. The Machinations of Lord Boreal
  9. A Gilded Cage
  10. The Strength of Gyptians
  11. A Plea to Fate
  12. The Legacy of Svalbard
  13. Mrs. M.Coulter
  14. The Magisterium
  15. The Path Foretold
  16. Release the Spy-Fly
  17. The Tales of Lee Scoresby
  18. The Compass Points North
  19. Will: The Knife Bearer (exclusive to the physical edition)
  20. The Witches of Lake Enara

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     Lorne Balfe was born in Inverness, Scottland, in 1976. He has been composing soundtracks for movies, TV series or documentaries and videogames for about two decades...

• Official website
• Lorne Balfe on Instagram
• Lorne Balfe on facebook
• Lorne Balfe on Twitter

The opening credits theme for S1 contains a few Latine verses:

Susurros immortales audiunt haruspices incipite parvuli  Incipite parvuli procedant menses magni  Incipite, incipite

The diviners (witches?) hear immortal whispers: Begin, children  Begin, children, long months might come  Begin! Begin!

 As for the translation, the origin and meaning of this, we can only advice you to visit this Reddit thread or to visit our forum boards (French!)...


Season 2 also includes much Latine in its soundtrack. Here come some of the lyrics, mostly found on Lorne Balfe's Twitter account....
Opening credits (*)

Cultelle, Cultelle  Cuius ferrum e vusceribus terrae  E quorum artificio 'Subtilis Cultellus' nomen?  Subtilis Cultellus  Cultelle, Cultelle.

O little knife, little knife  Whose iron, drawn out by force from earth's entrails  But 'little subtle knife', for how long then?  Subtle little knife   O little knife, little knife.

Play the serpent (*)

In itinere te ducent angeli  Fortunam invenies.

Angels shall lead you on the journey  You shall find fortune

A New Cardinal Rises (*)

Consanguinei  Tenaces propositi,  Fortes estote ad exequendum  Gratias Auctoritas,  Auctoritas.  Manus nostras dirige,  O Auctoritas, mentes dirige,  O Auctoritas.

O Kinsmen  holding firm of purpose,  Be steadfast to bring (our task) to completion  Give thanks to the Authority,  to the Authority.  Guide our hands,  O Authority, guide our minds,  O Authority.

The Witch Queen of Lake Lubana (*)

Lacuum meridianorum regina  Torva tuens haruspex  Incendii flamma celerior  Tigridum debellatrix

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The Subtle Knife (*)

At tu, Cultelle, quousque tandem?  E quorum artificio 'Subtilis Cultellus' nomen

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