Serenada Schizophrana
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Hybrid SACD
CD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Music Label: Sony Classics
Soundtracks:
- I. Pianos
- II. Blue Strings
- III. A Brass Thing
- IV. The Quadruped Patrol
- V. "I Forget"
- VI. Bells and Whistles
- VII. End Tag
- Improv for Alto Sax - Danny Elfman, Elfman, Danny [1953
Music reviews of Serenada Schizophrana
Music Review: This is movie music - not a concert piece
Rating: 2 Stars
I love Elfman's movie and TV scores; they never fail to delight me. And I generally enjoy listening to recordings of those scores because they evoke vivid memories of the movie they accompanied.
However, Elfman's commission for this piece was that he write a CONCERT piece -- in other words, something that would stand by itself; something musically and structurally coherent; something with a musical "plot" to it that grows and develops through the course of several movements. This work just doesn't qualify.
Instead, it's just little snippets of his movie scores tied together. Listen closely and you can hear a bit of "Mars Attacks" here and a bit of "Nightmare Before Christmas" there; an occassional reference to "Batman" or "The Flash."
As another reviewer has pointed out, this seems to be a score without a movie. While it's a delightful piece of ear candy, there's nothing lasting or deep about it. After one or two listenings, there's nothing left to learn or discover.
Description of Serenada Schizophrana
As the New York Times put it when Danny Elfman's Serenada Schizophrana was performed live at Carnegie Hall in February 2005: "Better good Hollywood music than second-rate Brahms." Elfman, better known for his soundtracks to Tim Burton movies, had been commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra to write a concert work, and the Serenada Schizophrana in six movements was the result. It appears here under the baton of John Mauceri, known for his crossover work with Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Fans of Elfman's soundtracks won't be disappointed-or even very much surprised-by this venture into the concert hall. The composer's style remains very much the same, probably because his habitual orchestrator, Steve Bartek (whose contribution is crucial to Elfman's sound), worked on four movements, with Edgardo Simone handling the remaining two. Blending Bernard Herrmann, Duke Ellington, Max Steiner, and especially JG Thirlwell (a.k.a. big-band industrialist Foetus), Elfman has come up with an audience-friendly piece that actually sounds more convincing than similarly high-reaching works by Paul McCartney or Elvis Costello.--Elisabeth VincentelliGeneral CDs
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