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Since you already own the LP of TRUE CONFESSIONS, Phil, I say that's where you should begin your Delerue exploration. It's a deeply beautiful score; and since the Varese thousand-copy CD Club reissue seldom comes around for a low price, you can sample it more conveniently than many others could. (And if that one doesn't speak to you, a lot of his music probably won't.)
I value Delerue's work for such qualities as his capacity for joy, delicate soaring melodies, and a poignant innocence that (as in the rejected SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, for example) can become brooding or sinister. A number of his scores manage to convey onscreen a menace which lay unsuspected by people who first heard the music only on album. But he also possessed a gift for constructing melodies that haunt.
As a hardcore fan of Goldsmith, Alfred Newman, Barry, and Herrmann, some of my choice Delerue scores would be -- in no particular order -- KING OF HEARTS; OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE (paired by FSM with the worthy THE 25TH HOUR); SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER; JULES AND JIM; DAY FOR NIGHT; A LITTLE ROMANCE (resented by many for the Oscar that didn't go to STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE, but it's a wonderful score); PROMISE AT DAWN; THE HORSEMEN; and my personal favorite from his output, the little-known THE ESCAPE ARTIST. Wait -- I can't leave out INTERLUDE!
Then you also should consider the composer's magnificent work for the historical dramas ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS; A WALK WITH LOVE AND DEATH; and the sweeping LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE. I don't know that ANNE has seen a CD reissue, and the other two are scarce -- but if you like enough of those others, you'll hunt for these.
Last edited by Steven Lloyd on Fri Aug 17, 2012 3:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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