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INTRADA
Announces:



RAPTURE
Composed and Conducted by GEORGES DELERUE
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 188

In 1965, composer Georges Delerue provide music for the 20th Century Fox film Rapture an almost operatic story, crammed with thematic and visual largesse. Nonetheless, Delerue resists the temptation to go big, and instead composes a score that keeps the film from going over the top, grounding it in innocent purity. The main theme is unmistakably his: string-led, tender, and endowed with an untouchable and poignant dignity. The composer also never shies away from giving us an aural portrait of a young woman who is both child-like and disturbed, in one cue presenting both aspects of our protagonist, beginning with a fragile music-box air that segues into the haunting siren call of a female voice, another motif that will reappear throughout the score—quite appropriately, given the evocative seaside setting of much of the film’s action.

While Rapture is an obscure score to an obscure film, it is nonetheless another Delerue gem, premiering on this Intrada CD from the original mono elements stored for all these years by Colette Delerue.

Based on Rapture in My Rags, an evocative 1954 novel by English writer Phyllis Hastings, Rapture boasts a cast headlined by American screen veteran Melvyn Douglas; a Hollywood child star-turned-heart-throb (Dean Stockwell); a member of the Ingmar Bergman stock company (Gunnel Lindblom); and an incandescent French 15-year-old (Patricia Gozzi). It tells the tale of Agnes (Gozzi), an emotionally damaged 15-year-old girl who lives in lonely isolation on a remote seaside farm under the watchful eye of her stern father (Douglas), who would keep his daughter a child forever if he could. When a seductive fugitive from the law (Stockwell) stumbles onto the farm and takes shelter in the barn, the inevitable results spell both ecstasy and tragedy for one and all.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 188
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Ordered. Hooked in with that main title music already. Beautiful.

I'm not a diehard Delerue fan, but the lovely samples have me on this one, so added to shopping cart it is. A great pair of releases this week!

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Well, speaking as a die-hard Delerue fan, I must heartily thank Intrada for this most thoroughly comprehensive release. May I now suggest that they go for a complete version of Colette's tape for NOBODY RUNS FOREVER?

One of the most beautiful artworks I've ever seen! Of course, it must be in order to coincide with that haunting score! Ordered!

Oh how wonderful it is to have another Delerue score released by Intrada! Thank you very much!!!

Hopefully next year Intrada brings out more releases by this great composer!

Especially INTERLUDE would be great... and we could finally completely forgot that thing DCM released a couple years ago...

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Received mine today. Very pleased with everything. It's wonderful to have every note of this little-known film. Thanks, Intrada and all concerned !

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Perhaps Intrada will also consider salvaging Delerue's rejected score to REGARDING HENRY from the Paramount vaults. Universal France' upcoming truncated release will not do this score justice (the same applies to Something Wicked This Way Comes).

And "Touch and Go", and .

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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself"
"Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages."
"Everyone votes for a dictator."
THE PRISONER

This score is absolutely beautiful. I've listened to it several times already since receiving it.

While I usually like mono to be mono, I liked the use of the presence in this case to revitalize the music (I can imagine what it would have sounded like without it).