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CRIMSON PEAK
Music Composed and Conducted by Fernando Velázquez
Performed by The London Phiharmonia
Quartet Records and Legendary Pictures are proud to present the stunning, haunting score composed by Fernando Velázquez (The Orphanage, The Impossible, Mama, Hercules) for Guillermo del Toro’s new, visually fascinating gothic tale, Crimson Peak, starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston.
In this gothic romance, set at the turn of the 20th century, a mysterious stranger named Sir Thomas Sharpe woos young author Edith Cushing and brings her as his bride to his mansion atop a clay mountain in Cumbria, England. There, Edith meets Sharpe's strange and secretive sister, Lucille, and learns that her new home holds many disturbing secrets that will force her to fight for her sanity and her very life.
Fernando Velázquez provides an intense full-orchestra score, including the haunting “Edith’s Theme,” a beautiful waltz, propulsive horror tracks and a passionate love theme, all masterfully written in the classic style of film music from the “good old days.” Performed by The London Philharmonia under the baton of the composer.
Track list:
01. Edith’s Theme (1:56)
02. My Mother’s Funeral (0:49)
03. Buffalo (2:09)
04. After the Ghost (0:35)
05. Soft Hands (0:45)
06. McMichael (1:04)
07. Valse sur une berceuse anglaise (1:18)
08. Ghost I (1:40)
09. I Desperately Need Your Help (0:53)
10. The Butterfly (0:51)
11. Optician (1:25)
12. Return to Your Ghosts (3:54)
13. Allerdale Hall (6:18)
14. The House (1:47)
15. What Was That (0:41)
16. Lullaby Variation (1:40)
17. The Book (0:52)
18. The Attic (1:46)
19. Ghost II (0:50)
20. Crimson Peak (0:53)
21. Ghost III (1:42)
22. I Have to Get Away From Here (1:21)
23. Letter From Italy (0:37)
24. I’m Here (3:01)
25. The Machine / The Box (1:27)
26. Bubbling Up (0:21)
27. Key’s Chase (0:56)
28. You Didn’t Drink Your Tea (0:57)
29. The Gramophone (3:03)
30. You Are Awake (1:39)
31. Let Me Help You (0:52)
32. We Stay Together / McMichaels Arrives (1:14)
33. I Know Who You Are (8:14)
34. Lucille & Showdown (10:45)
35. Finale (1:51)
36. End Credits (4:07)
Total Disc Time: 76:04
For more info, order and listen audio samples, please visit www.quartetrecords.com
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Nov 9, 2015 - 9:05 AM
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hyperdanny
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Exhilarating:
- it's a thing nowadays very rare: a labour of love and a movie with a soul, Del Toro's passionate love letter to the old-fashioned ghost stories from the 40's..the sheer joy in storytelling is almost moving.
- it's wonderfully directed (camera movements, panoramics, etc) and beautifully acted (who knew Jessica Chastain had "that" in her?)
- has production values to die for (photography, costumes, decor and , yes, music)
Infuriating: there's a lot of stuff that in the 40's would not have passed muster, too much that's half-baked:
- did anybody notice that the ghosts serve basically no great purpose in the advancing of the story? The story would barely change if they would all be cut away from the film. Yes, as they say in the movie "all ghosts are metaphors" but still, either it's a ghost story of not.
Here they just show up here and there, like in a carnival spooky ride, and sometimes I was uncomfortably reminded of 1999's disgraceful "The haunting".
- some very cool things are just squandered..you have this extracool idea of the crimson clay seeping from the ground, and you don't do anything with it? At the end of the movie I could not believe that the house didn't collapse in it , or that any character didn't drown in it. Actually the whole ending was anticlimactic.
Don't get me wrong: I follow Del Toro since Cronos, and I believe he's wonderful, an incredibly gifted filmmaker, but he tends to get too carried away by his vision.
You can't make too many 200-million geeky movies in a row: Pacific Rim was a box office underwhelmer and this is doing even worse.
Paradoxically iI believe that he's the kind of director that could benefit from some tighter rein from the studios, much in the same way that Peter Jackson could.
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Nov 12, 2015 - 5:13 AM
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hyperdanny
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Whatever said of the movie (and despite the flaws I liked it, definitely better to be seen on the big screen)..Velazquez's music passed with flying colors my Soundtrack Test of Purchase which usually goes as follows:
1- I notice and I am hit by the music during the movie, not too much mind you, because the good and great soundtracks complement and empower the movie, don't overpower it. (if the movie is any good, of course!)
2- Some time passes, and, logically, it all recedes and fades a bit into memory
3- Then, when I get a chance to re-listen to the music..wham!...it all comes back: the atmopheres of the movie, and the music itself, and I realize that it wasn't forgotten, but simply lodged somewhere in my memory, because it's really good music.
Yesterday I found Crimson Peak on You-know-what and that's exactly what happened, not such a frequent occurrence nowadays, given the sorry state of affairs with this form of art (last time it was with Oblivion).
So, time will tell if it's great or "simply" very good, but Crimson Peak will be definitely a buy for me.
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