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I love all things Glass, so I think this is a solid piece of work. However, I don't think it works with Dracula. The music is so strong that it dominates the entire vibe of the film, overpowering it, and it's almost constant, never allowing the film to breathe or the viewer to soak in the creepy atmosphere. It's as though he scored the music for a silent film. I just don't think it works. Nevertheless, it's a great stand-alone composition and I play it at least a couple times a year. No desire to watch the film with it again though. The atmosphere of the original version works best IMO.
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I've had the 'DRACULA' - Legacy Collection from Universal for something like 13-14 years and I opened it up today. I've seen the original version on Disc One. and the other versions (except the Spanish version) on Disc Two. But I hadn't yet heard that original version of the film with the newly recorded score by PHILLIP GLASS on the first disc, so I played it. The music WORKS wonderfully!The music seems to 'open-up' the visuals and adds 'colors' to scenes we know by heart. Sometimes though the music is in places where I'd rather there be silence, such as the scene with Renfield ascending the stairs for the first time in Dracula's Castle, and you hear the howling of wolves outside. ('Listen to them, children of the night'), but Glass's music mostly covers up the sounds of the howling wolves. Overall, this is (was), a great music score by Phillip Glass.
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Just noting that the solo piano version is one of my favorite Autumn listens - I like it even better than the Kronos.
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I love all things Glass, so I think this is a solid piece of work. However, I don't think it works with Dracula. The music is so strong that it dominates the entire vibe of the film, overpowering it, and it's almost constant, never allowing the film to breathe or the viewer to soak in the creepy atmosphere. It's as though he scored the music for a silent film. I just don't think it works. Nevertheless, it's a great stand-alone composition and I play it at least a couple times a year. No desire to watch the film with it again though. The atmosphere of the original version works best IMO.
This was my take. Doesn't work with the film, at all. For several years I've played around with archival mono (scratchy) recordings of other Tchaikovsky works, following the 'Swan Lake' connection and scored bits and pieces of the film. One of these days in my spare time I'll finish it and load it to YouTube just for educational purposes.
Honestly, it works pretty well scored with bits of 'Francesca da Rimini' and 'The Voyevode'...kind of surprisingly so...and utilized in the fashion of a circa-1930s scoring style.
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This is a fantastic album, and I personally think it adds a lot to a film that (for me) otherwise struggles to maintain interest when Lugosi’s not onscreen. The piece “Dr. Van Helsing and Dracula” has so much roiling anger and urgency, and it adds a charged emotional layer to the scene that’s otherwise entirely absent.
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For a contrast has anyone tried the version by Christian Leroy ( Gega New GD205) Also for small ensemble plus some strings
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