Wojciech Kilar - Bram Stoker's Dracula and Other Film Music

One trick to amassing a large music collection is to keep an eye out for bargains. Things like used CDs really stretch your dollar (or whatever your currency happens to be), of course. iTunes has bargains squirrelled away here and there. You just have to dig. For instance, Miles Davis's album Bitches Brew. Over one-and-a-half hours of music. Can't buy the whole album, supposedly, but you can buy each individual track. The thing is, there are only seven tracks on the album. Yep, a double album (remastered, even) for seven bucks. Another great deal is Traffic's title track to The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. It's over eleven minutes long so if you look in that album you'll see you can't buy the track by itself. Oh yeah? If you dig in iTunes a bit, you'll find it for sale. Things like that. One great bargain that caught my eye last week was an album of the work of Polish composer Wojciech Kilar. Best-known in the USA for the soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula, I find his music to be wonderful. The only other soundtrack of his usually found here is The Ninth Gate, which I also recommend. To get much deeper than that you have to reach out a bit farther--to his native Poland, for instance (which I have done). This album I found at iTunes, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Other Film Music by Wojciech Kilar, is not just a great deal at $5.99 for an hour's-worth of music, but it is a great introduction to Kilar. Containing selections from Bram Stoker's Dracula, Death and the Maiden, and a movie you've never heard of called König der letzten Tage. Great music by a great composer for a great price and I haven't seen this album available anywhere else. It has been playing in my car all week.