フランケンシュタインの花嫁

1. The Bride Of Frankenstein-Main Title
2. Prologue-Menuetto And Storm
3. Monster Entrance
4. Processional March
5. A Strange Apparition/Pretorius' Entrance/You Will Need A Coat
6. Bottle Sequence
7. Female Monster Music/Pastorale/Village/Chase
8. Crucifixion/Monster Breaks Out
9. Fire In The Hut/Graveyard
10. Dance Macabre
11. The Creation
12. The Tower Explodes And Finale
13. The Invisible Ray Suite

発売日：1993年9月21日(火)
レーベル：Silva America

レビュー (Amazon)
With the rise of Hitler, many outstanding European composers, including Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner, exiled themselves to North America. Following a vicious street assault by Nazis, Franz Waxman, a former jazz musician who had orchestrated Friedrich Hollaender's score for the Marlene Dietrich classic The Blue Angel (1930), also left for Hollywood. His first American score was for James Whale's The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), which following Steiner's King Kong (1933), remains one of the earliest symphonic movie scores of the sound era. (A genuine horror classic, a loving tribute is paid to the film in the 1998 movie Gods and Monsters.) Waxman's richly orchestrated score is by turns exciting and humorous, with a sinuous, almost sultry jazz influence revealing the composer's background. If in places the music sounds corny today, that's because it has been a victim of its own success, imitated and parodied ever since. Yet in 1935 this was an exhilarating new sound, the effect on audiences electrifying, the music recycled for many later productions, most famously the Flash Gordon serials. In this excellent modern recording every detail of this classic score can finally be heard, and the album even includes selections not used in the released film. The short suite from The Invisible Ray is a worthy addition, as are the informative booklet notes. Other fine Waxman scores available in modern recordings include Rebecca and Mrs Skeffington. --Gary S. Dalkin