Interview With The Vampire: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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| Artist(s) | Elliot Goldenthal |
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| Subtitle | Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| Label | Geffen Records |
| Elliot Goldenthal’s score perfectly captures the mood of the film, from the opening notes of “Libera Me” to the reprise of “Born to Darkness” at the end. He builds on a few basic themes, adding excitement to the mix with the high-intensity “Louis’ Revenge” and “Claudia’s Allegro Agitato.” As some of the track titles suggest, Goldenthal uses classical themes and techniques to compose his music, which works nicely. So well, in fact, that the Guns n Roses’ rendition of “Sympathy for the Devil,” appropriate as it was in the film, sounds like an afterthought here. The… | |
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Elliot Goldenthal’s score perfectly captures the mood of the film, from the opening notes of “Libera Me” to the reprise of “Born to Darkness” at the end. He builds on a few basic themes, adding excitement to the mix with the high-intensity “Louis’ Revenge” and “Claudia’s Allegro Agitato.” As some of the track titles suggest, Goldenthal uses classical themes and techniques to compose his music, which works nicely. So well, in fact, that the Guns n Roses’ rendition of “Sympathy for the Devil,” appropriate as it was in the film, sounds like an afterthought here. The soundtrack is a little too repetitive to hold up well to repeated listens, but it’s a fine effort overall, and one that holds true both to the film and to the Anne Rice novel on which it was based. —Genevieve Williams
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