HAMMER HORROR The Hammer Film Music Collection - Volume Two (1998 UK 25-track CD. As with its companion Volume One, this album presents themes and music from 25 Hammer Films productions, this time ranging from Quatermass II (1957) to the studio's swan song, To The Devil A Daughter (1976). If anything, this release has been produced with even more attention to detail than its predecessor, and is a superbly documented tribute to the studio that dominated British cinema for 20 years.It should be said that the best of the material is on Volume One (which also has slightly better overall sound quality), so that while there is still plenty to enjoy, this album is perhaps more for Hammer aficionados than casual collectors. Paul Glass's disturbing satanic To The Devil A Daughter contrasts strongly with Malcolm Williamson's romantic piano "concerto" from Crescendo and John McCabe's striking, modernistic Fear In The Night. Performed by The Peddlers, the unused title song for The Lost Continent is a real oddity, as different as possible from Don Banks's epic The Evil Of Frankenstein, the exoticism of Richard Rodney Bennett's The Witches or the malevolent power of James Bernard's Dracula Has Risen From The Grave. For fans classic horror films this is real a treasure-trove of gems from The Studio That Dripped Blood. Housed in a standard jewel case with a detailed booklet picture sleeve with notes providing fascinating background information, and back inlay) more...
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HAMMER HORROR The Hammer Film Music Collection - Volume One (1998 UK 25-track CD. The first of two lovingly produced anthologies of original soundtrack themes from Hammer Films, this volume spanning The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957), to The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires (1974). Ten of the selections are by Hammer's chief composer, James Bernard. His unforgettably bold "Dra-cu-la" theme appears in various guises, while his music from She is surprisingly tender. Franz Reizenstein's choral The Mummy is wondrously evocative, against which Mario Nascimbene offers a pair of spaghetti-flavoured themes for Hammer's dinosaur adventures. David Whitaker's waltz from Dr Jekyll And Sister Hyde shows Hammer diverging from the expected "horror music". Tristram Cary provides a strikingly atonal introduction to Quatermass And The Pit, Harry Robinson paints an authentically central European portrait of Countess Dracula, and Christopher Gunning is characteristically lyrical even when portraying The Hands Of The Ripper. Housed in a standard jewel case with a detailed booklet picture sleeve with notes providing fascinating background information, and back inlay) more...
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