Star Wars Episode II End Credits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikcTJ-yh6w8
Specifically, the end section beginning at 4:26 ........ this section was only on the OST and was not included during the credits of the actual film. One of the biggest travesties of editing for the entire saga, IMO ---- flabbergasting that it was left out. In less than 2 minutes of music, after a cool harpsichord rendition of Across the Stars, a French horn comes in and John Williams brilliantly tells the entire Prequel story.........
Anakin's Theme is played in a very lazy-hazy-Sunday-afternoon way, then becomes intertwined with the Across the Stars Theme played by the flutes, and then low strings ominously are heard behind it all playing Vader's theme.
Read that again --- John Williams merges Anakin's childhood theme, Across the Stars, AND The Imperial March in together, all at the same time ----- absolutely master level composing.
Then for the very last section, the flute solo takes over and plays a line that emulates the end of Leia's Theme almost exactly, leading the listener to expect a major key resolution to the phrase, but instead, the flute resolves to a very dark minor key and the low strings come in once more with their Imperial March to end the track (and the movie).
That ending, though very different, is probably on par for me with the ending of the Empire Strikes Back End Credits --- both amazing in their own ways.
