MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN
Rating: 
Original Review: The bargain bin of Roulette Records in Sheffield proved fruitful yet again, this time bearing Patrick Doyle's most thematically rich score to date. Throughout the score there is a sense of darkness and foreboding , and nowhere is this more apparent than in the main title, 'To Think of a Story', a driving brass piece with a strong drum undercurrent which contains the main dramatic theme which recurs throughout the album. 'I Won't If You Won't' provides the first glimpse of the rich, lavish romantic theme which is played in its glorious entirety during the cue 'The Wedding Night', a wonderfully sonorous string piece which complements the darker moments perfectly. 'Victor Begins' is the darkest, most dangerous-sounding cue on the album, a real dread-laden piece with a pounding percussion; then a trilogy of cues: 'Yes, I Speak', 'God Forgive Me' and 'Please Wait' are the most emotionally charged of the album: these underscore the meeting Victor and the Monster in the Ice Cave and are full of a moving ache as the Monster spills his soul to his father. The album ends with 'He Was My Father', a compilation of all the main themes to bring things to a close.
Track Listing:
- To Think of a Story (3:28)
- What's Out There? (2:52)
- There's An Answer (4:37)
- I Won't if You Won't (1:58)
- A Perilous Direction (3:20)
- A Risk Worth Taking (3:18)
- Victor Begins (0:54)
- Even If You Die (2:16)
- The Creation (2:00)
- Evil Stitched to Evil (4:43)
- The Escape (1:47)
- The Reunion (0:45)
- The Journal (1:04)
- Friendless (2:09)
- William! (2:44)
- Death of Justine / Sea of Ice (3:54)
- Yes I Speak (5:37)
- God Forgive Me (0:57)
- Please Wait (3:21)
- The Honeymoon (1:16)
- The Wedding Night (2:05)
- Elizabeth (4:11)
- She's Beautiful (3:36)
- He Was My Father (6:10)
Running Time: 65 minutes 02 seconds
Epic Soundtrax 477987-2 (1994)
Music composed by Patrick Doyle. Conducted by David Snell. Orchestrations by Lawrence Ashmore. Recorded and mixed by Paul Hulme. Edited by Roy Prendergast. Album produced by Patrick Doyle and Maggie Rodford.
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