World Premiere Recordings of the Complete Scores from Two Classic Hammer Films of the 1950s
THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN starred Peter Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein and Christopher Lee as The Creature. This outstanding 1957 horror film began a whole series of films starring these two great icons of terror and was one of the best movies from Hammer Productions.
DRACULA, made in 1958, also starred Peter Cushing (as Doctor Van Helsing) and Christopher Lee (as Count Dracula). It is difficult to overestimate the significance of DRACULA as it set the tone for Hammer’s movie output over the next two decades when British horror films were among the most admired and popular films. DRACULA created international stars out of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
The music for both these films was composed by James Bernard, who created music for many more classic Hammer films including: SHE * THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT * THE DAMNED * DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS * THE DEVIL RIDES OUT * TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA * THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES
A distinctive trait in Bernard’s Hammer scores is their use of clashing harmonies, often created by doubling a motif a tone higher, as in his famous Dracula theme. His music is also frenzied and pacey at times, frequently making use of percussion such as timpani and snares. He could also write lush, romantic melodies, however. such as appear in Frankenstein Created Woman, Taste the Blood of Dracula and Scars of Dracula.
Newly Recorded in Stunning and Dynamic Digital Sound
Performed by the Acclaimed and Award-Winning City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Nic Raine
New Score and Bernard’s own Orchestrations Reconstructed by Leigh Phillips
20-Page Full-Colour Booklet with Informative Sleeve Notes by Hammer Film Music Expert David Huckvale ? plus numerous original film stills and posters.
OVER 70 MINUTES OF MUSIC
Includes Bonus Track “Rhapsody for Lucy” Composed by Leigh Phillips from the Dracula Theme by James Bernard
Recording Produced by James Fitzpatrick for Tadlow Music
With Associate Producers Mark Bagby and Leigh Phillips
発売日：2019/10/25
トラックリスト
THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN 1. Main Title From?The Curse of Frankenstein?(1:48) 2. A Brilliant Intellect / It’s Alive (4:31) 3. The Gibbet (3:39) 4. An Offer of Help / Goodnight Professor / The Professor’s Brain (4:56) 5. The Creature / He’s Gone (2:48) 6. The Creature and the Blind Man / You Shoot Well / I’ll Give You Life Again (2:59) 7. Justine’s Fate (4:12) 8. Get Up / Final Confrontation / The Guillotine (9:06)
DRACULA 9. Main Title From?Dracula?(1:53) 10. Arrival at Castle Dracula (4:41) 11. Plan Revealed / Plea for Help / Dracula’s Rage (5:22) 12. The Mausoleum / Harker Stakes the Bride / Empty Casket (4:58) 13. The Diary / Van Helsing Finds Harker (2:06) 14. Sleep Well / Dracula Seduces Lucy (2:07) 15. Lucy’s Second Encounter / Garlic Flowers (2:36) 16. Aunt Lucy / Lucy Is Released (3:29) 17. Mina Ensnared / It Was There (1:09) 18. Allergic Reaction / Mina’s Submission (2:55) 19. Bloodstained Mina / The Cellar (1:00) 20. The Final Battle (4:34) Bonus Track 21. Rhapsody for Lucy (Lucie) (4:14) Composed by Leigh Phillips based on a theme by James Bernard
50年代のハマー・フィルムの古典ホラー「吸血鬼ドラキュラ」と「フランケンシュタインの逆襲」のフルスコアを世界初録音し、CD１枚にカップリング収録！演奏はNic Raine指揮、City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra。全75分収録。
トラックリスト「吸血鬼ドラキュラ」・・・'３１年にユニヴァーサルで「魔人ドラキュラ」としても映画化された、ブラム・ストーカー原作による怪奇小説の古典『ドラキュラ』を、英ハマー・プロが史上初のカラー版として製作。テレンス・フィッシャーのタイトな演出、ジェームズ・バーナードの荘厳な音楽共に完璧で、これで完全にスターとなったクリストファー・リーと職人気質も頼もしいピーター・カッシングの二人はこれ以上望むべくも無い存在感で迫る。エロティックでスリリングな吸血シーン、迫力の対決シーンと、様式美を兼ね備えたエンタテインメントとして極上の一本。数有る吸血鬼映画はもちろん、全ホラー映画の中でも屈指の名作。何世紀にもわたり人間の生き血を吸い続けてきたドラキュラ伯爵と、ヴァン・ヘルシング教授の戦いを描く。1958年英。
「フランケンシュタインの逆襲」・・・'３１年にユニヴァーサルで「魔人ドラキュラ」としても映画化された、ブラム・ストーカー原作による怪奇小説の古典『ドラキュラ』を、英ハマー・プロが史上初のカラー版として製作。テレンス・フィッシャーのタイトな演出、ジェームズ・バーナードの荘厳な音楽共に完璧で、これで完全にスターとなったクリストファー・リーと職人気質も頼もしいピーター・カッシングの二人はこれ以上望むべホラー界の名門・ハマーフィルムの名を一躍世界に広めるきっかけとなったホラー。19世紀末、スイスの寒村で目前に迫った処刑の時を待つフランケンシュタイン男爵。男爵は牢獄の看守たちに、罪は自分にあるのではなく、秘密の研究室で造り上げた半分は人間の生物の仕業だということを訴える。だが、誰も信じてくれない。そこで、少年時代からの家庭教師で共同研究者でもあったポールに彼の話を確認してもらおうとする。その生物とは、道端の絞首台にさらされていた罪人の死体に、天才彫刻家の手や、人生経験豊かで優秀な科学者の脳を組み合わせて蘇生させたものだった…。
監督：テレンス・フィッシャー、出演：ピーター・カッシング、クリストファー・リー。1957年英。
TADLOW MUSIC Presents
DRACULA
THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
World Premiere Recordings of the Complete Scores from Two Classic Hammer Films of the 1950s
THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN starred Peter Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein and Christopher Lee as The Creature. This outstanding 1957 horror film began a whole series of films starring these two great icons of terror and was one of the best movies from Hammer Productions.
DRACULA, made in 1958, also starred Peter Cushing (as Doctor Van Helsing) and Christopher Lee (as Count Dracula). It is difficult to overestimate the significance of DRACULA as it set the tone for Hammer’s movie output over the next two decades when British horror films were among the most admired and popular films. DRACULA created international stars out of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
The music for both these films was composed by James Bernard, who created music for many more classic Hammer films including: SHE * THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT * THE DAMNED * DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS * THE DEVIL RIDES OUT * TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA * THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES
A distinctive trait in Bernard’s Hammer scores is their use of clashing harmonies, often created by doubling a motif a tone higher, as in his famous Dracula theme. His music is also frenzied and pacey at times, frequently making use of percussion such as timpani and snares. He could also write lush, romantic melodies, however. such as appear in Frankenstein Created Woman, Taste the Blood of Dracula and Scars of Dracula.
Newly Recorded in Stunning and Dynamic Digital Sound
Performed by the Acclaimed and Award-Winning City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Nic Raine
New Score and Bernard’s own Orchestrations Reconstructed by Leigh Phillips
20-Page Full-Colour Booklet with Informative Sleeve Notes by Hammer Film Music Expert David Huckvale ? plus numerous original film stills and posters.
OVER 70 MINUTES OF MUSIC
Includes Bonus Track “Rhapsody for Lucy” Composed by Leigh Phillips from the Dracula Theme by James Bernard
Recording Produced by James Fitzpatrick for Tadlow Music
With Associate Producers Mark Bagby and Leigh Phillips
発売日：2019/10/25
THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
1. Main Title From?The Curse of Frankenstein?(1:48)
2. A Brilliant Intellect / It’s Alive (4:31)
3. The Gibbet (3:39)
4. An Offer of Help / Goodnight Professor / The Professor’s Brain (4:56)
5. The Creature / He’s Gone (2:48)
6. The Creature and the Blind Man / You Shoot Well / I’ll Give You Life Again (2:59)
7. Justine’s Fate (4:12)
8. Get Up / Final Confrontation / The Guillotine (9:06)
DRACULA
9. Main Title From?Dracula?(1:53)
10. Arrival at Castle Dracula (4:41)
11. Plan Revealed / Plea for Help / Dracula’s Rage (5:22)
12. The Mausoleum / Harker Stakes the Bride / Empty Casket (4:58)
13. The Diary / Van Helsing Finds Harker (2:06)
14. Sleep Well / Dracula Seduces Lucy (2:07)
15. Lucy’s Second Encounter / Garlic Flowers (2:36)
16. Aunt Lucy / Lucy Is Released (3:29)
17. Mina Ensnared / It Was There (1:09)
18. Allergic Reaction / Mina’s Submission (2:55)
19. Bloodstained Mina / The Cellar (1:00)
20. The Final Battle (4:34)
Bonus Track
21. Rhapsody for Lucy (Lucie) (4:14)
Composed by Leigh Phillips based on a theme by James Bernard
TT: 75:15