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| Philip Glass: Dracula | 
 enlarge | Creators: Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (24 reviews)
Sales Rank: 65133
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79542
UPC: 075597954227
EAN: 0075597954227
ASIN: B00000JZCI
Release Date: August 31, 1999
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| Customer Reviews:
 Love the collaboration August 25, 2000
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just got this recently and loved the Kronos collaboration. This would be in my top 5 for PG. I have around 15 of them now, but also check out Kundun and Koyaanisquattsi. I need to see them movie remake with this soundtrack now.
A taut, nerve jagging hour of music I personally adore July 21, 2000
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Philip Glass's score for Tod Browning's 1931 Dracula is a capturing composition. Though I haven't seen the movie yet, this Dracula comes to life simply by listening to the effective soundtrack. But that's not all: the visionary quality of Glass's composition makes several tracks on the CD the perfect inspiration for scenes of movies that have yet to be filmed! Track number 23 - "Dr. van Helsing and Dracula" - is a most beautiful piece of music, that cannot leave one indifferent: strangely enough, it has a tango-like beat to it, and a sadness so deep it makes one picture two lovers dancing their last dance together.I know very little about Glass's previous works, but his most representative composition - Einstein on the Beach - I have listened to several times, and from what I've gathered Dracula certainly seems to be in Glass's style... Minimal music patterns, repeated in looped sequences, with gradual variation. The final effect is a taut, nerve jagging hour of music, with a touch of sombre pensiveness to it, some will love - as I did - and others may not stand. Kronos Quartet members perform - as usual - with terrific energy, giving one the impression of really "feeling" the music they are playing: there are few things I would like to do as much as listening to them perform live!
Paints some great images... July 12, 2000
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Music is paint on the canvas of the imagination... adding music to this classic movie intensifies the emotions created by watching Dracula. The Kronos Quartet does an excellent job of performing each piece with incredible accuracy!
 Pretty Good Soundtrack to Accompany a Good Movie June 20, 2000
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a pretty decent soundtrack to accompany a pretty good movie. It makes good use of repeated motifs to accentuate certain aspects and events, very similar to a John Williams type approach at times. However I must admit that I prefer dramatic soundtracks and though this does a good job of counterpointing and accentuating the film it just isn't that good at letting you get swept away in the sound. Maybe that makes sense especially given the silent nature of this film and what it is trying to accentuate but I just don't like it all that much. As music in and of itself I find it better I must admit, but still there is very little that is extremely memorable.
FANGS FOR THE MEMORY, MR. GLASS! June 17, 2000
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
Being a Universal horror movie buff, I rather cringed when I heard that Philip Glass had composed a score for Lugosi's DRACULA, a film I know word for word (which is fairly pathetic when one considers it, actually--- but, ah, such are the loves and passions of my youth--- before the video generation). However, giving the devil his due, I must admit that Mr. Glass has written, minimalist though it is, a series of gothic set pieces brimming with atmosphere, gloom and vampires. The thematic material, woven in and out by the exceptionally attuned Kronos Quartet, goes through typical Glass permutations but never seems to become tiresome; in fact, the more one listens, the more one hears. Glass has caught something quite intangible here and it deserves a listen.... best at night with your headphones on.... and with garlic hung from windows and doors!
[Running time: 67:03]
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