{"id":4135,"date":"2012-01-18T13:28:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2012-01-18T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:28:19","slug":"cd-dangerous-method-a-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4135","title":{"rendered":"CD: Dangerous Method, A (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label: Sony Classical\/ Released: November 21, 2011<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 19 tracks \/ (65:05)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: 10-page colour booklet.<\/p>\n

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Composer: Howard Shore<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/p>\n

In Howard Shore\u2019s latest distinguished collaboration with David Cronenberg, the composer manages to capture the emotionally restrictive tone of Freud\u2019s turn-of-the-century era, and convey character vulnerabilities through a simple yet pliable theme.<\/p>\n

More of a fragmented hook than actual theme, Shore\u2019s tonal stepping-stone works as a gloomy orchestral introduction to the film, and in a slightly menacing guise it captures the unease as characters start to drift into dangerous emotional terrain when patient and doctor relationships becomes a bit improper.<\/p>\n

Woven into the score are initial quotes of \u201cSiegfried\u2019s Idyll\u201d and the Funeral music by Wagner, and the album closes with a lengthy arrangement of Wagner\u2019s Idyll, as arranged by Shore and performed with elegance and precision by Lang Lang. The fusion of Shore and Wagner works surprisingly well throughout the score because Shore\u2019s arrangements and instrumentation also bridge the composer\u2019s thematic material with a specific sonic design of quiet, mounting gloom (er, \u2018Wagner lite\u2019), as evoked by slowly rendered harmonics, and lovely intimate segments performed by piano and chamber strings, with slight support from select woodwinds.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly One God\u201d \u2013 one of the rare long cues in Shore\u2019s generally brief score \u2013 is more characteristic of the composer\u2019s slow-building cues and thick string textures, and even though the Dangerous<\/strong> CD is essentially a suite of short, dramatically strategic cuts, it\u2019s an affecting work. It\u2019s also oddly pleasing to hear Shore aiming for period evocation instead of surreal experimentation; his closing cue, \u201cReflection,\u201d reassembles all the nuances of his singular theme into a sweeping 5 minute piece, and the arrangement also functions as a bridge to the Idyll arrangement, which fills out the album’s final 32 minutes.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2012 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album<\/a> — Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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