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Personally, I always felt Bernard's first three Dracula scores were his best, with the first, perhaps his magnum opus and his third, Dracula has Risen from the Grave (1968) a very close second....
We are close to agreement...I find Dracula Has Risen to be the pinacle. Taste and Scars have good love themes but the rest seemed more workman like. Maybe he lost inspiration after the third....
It was the suite from Taste the Blood of Dracula on the old Silva collection that made me fall in love with Bernard's sound world - probably because I adore the love theme and it's tragic turn at the climax. (Also it was the first Lee Dracula film I saw as a kid in the theater, so it's kind of an involuntary favorite.)
So I can't hear a word said against it (though I skipped the full release years later even when SAE suggested it to me, because I thought the suite enough). But if you're going to record Bernard scores anew, the original Dracula and Curse of Frankenstein are the two to do.
Can't wait!
The Taste the Blood love theme is indeed lovely. The one for Scars is quite nice too. I used to work in a restaurant owned and run by my wife's mother, and recorded cassette (remember them?) compilations of soft music as background for the diners, and delighted in using my film music collection. I recorded the two above themes. One regular was a sweet old lady who often complimented me on my choices. One day Taste was on and she loved it, and enquired what it was as she tucked into her tea and scones, but the look on her face was priceless when I told her it was TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA!
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....One day Taste was on and she loved it, and enquired what it was as she tucked into her tea and scones, but the look on her face was priceless when I told her it was TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA!
Priceless! 
(Um, I guess you already said that but you were right!)
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