| | Hamlet (1964): Music by Dmitry Shostakovich: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews July 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Ophelia's music grows sadder, more plaintive, more tragic through a series of four cues from 'Ophelia's Descent into Madness,' in which the harpsichord figures grow more and more despairing and dissonant, to the grisly melancholy of 'Death of Ophelia'. |
 | | The finale – music for 'The Duel - The Death of Hamlet - Hamlet's Funeral' is toweringly, mindlessly unrelenting dramatic and tense set piece. |
 | | I have to say though that while this is doubtless stunningly effective music in context – I've not seen the film – as a stand alone musical experience it is so relentlessly bleak, tortured and neurotic I can only praise the achievement while adding that I don't particularly care to ever play the disc again. |
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