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Yes, the Cape Fear DVD is very loud and enveloping; I do have to say that as good as the DTS track is, it doesn't have quite the same oomph as the laserdisc had (I know, I say that about everything, I must sound like a scratched record by now). I would look forward to having this movie with a PCM or lossless track on Blu-ray someday for that reason...
It loved that Martin Scorsese used the score so prominently in his version. It is fascinating to consider how much the personality of the director (who is, granted, a big Bernard Herrmann fan) played in the shaping of the score; while it is built out of Herrmann's music for the 1961 version, Elmer Bernstein's adaptation uses material from different parts of the score for different sequences (and, of course, incorporates music from the composer's Torn Curtain score, giving an orphaned score a home, one might say).
The results may not necessarily reflect how Herrmann might have chosen to score the same sequence. Elmer Bernstein's intimacy with Herrmann's music allowed it to extremely mutable for Scorsese; I don't think anybody would disagree with me (least of all Scorsese himself) were I to say that Herrmann's music was practically another character in the film. If in the J. Lee Thompson version the score seems to emanate from Max Cady (reflecting his single-minded obsession), in Scorsese's version it hangs over the film, becoming part of the very environment of the film (until the very end of the film when it retreats behind the sounds of the environment).
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