Alex North - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Original Motion Picture Score (1966/1997)

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Alex North - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Original Motion Picture Score (1966/1997)

Alex North - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Original Motion Picture Score (1966/1997)

National Philharmonic Orchestra, Conducted By Jerry Goldsmith

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 180 Mb (incl 5%) | Mp3 (CBR320/Stereo) ~ 112 Mb (incl 5%) | Scans included

Genre: Soundtrack, Score | Label: Varèse Sarabande | # VSD 5800 | Time: 00:39:33

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While Mike Nichols' 1966 film of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? gets more frightening every time you watch it, Alexander North's score to the same film gets more consoling every time you hear it. Nichols' film, particularly the performances by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, has scenes of terrific intensity, but North's score, though faithful to what's on screen, has a tenderness, even a sweetness, that transforms the ultimate meaning of the film. Part of it is North's characteristically evocative orchestration with some cues delicately scored for guitar, celesta, bass clarinet, harpsichord, and a pair of harps, while others are scored for spare almost spooky winds arrayed against soothing strings. But most of it is North's soaring melodies and brooding harmonies -- and especially his big-hearted main theme. By prefiguring the film's reconciliatory ending, the solace offered by North's score transfigures all the horrors enacted between Taylor and Burton.

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