Chopin * Nocturne No. 5 In F Sharp, Op. 15 No. 2 / Dracula's Daughter version (with orchestra, 1936)

Chopin fans: tell us what you think of this variation with orchestra! His fifth nocturne is in A-B-A form, in 2/4 time. In the original version, the first section, marked Larghetto, features an intricate, elaborately ornamental melody over an even quaver bass. The second section, labeled doppio movimento (double speed), resembles a scherzo with dotted quaver-semi quaver melody, semiquavers in a lower voice in the right hand, and large jumps in the bass. The final section is a shortened version of the first (14 bars rather than 24) with characteristic cadenzas and elaboration, finishing with an arpeggio on F♯ major, falling at first, then dying away. Many consider this nocturne to be the best of the opus, stating that its musical maturity matches some of his later nocturnes." Pianist Theodor Kullak remarked about this piece, "The return of the heavenly opening theme... touches [one] like a benediction."
Dracula's Daughter is a 1936 American vampire horror film produced by Universal Pictures as a sequel to the 1931 film Dracula. Directed by Lambert Hillyer from a screenplay by Garrett Fort, the film stars Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden in the title role, and Marguerite Churchill, and features, as the only cast member to return from the original, Edward Van Sloan - although his character's name was altered from "Van Helsing" to "Von Helsing".
Gloria Holden as Countess Marya Zaleska, Dracula's daughter
Otto Kruger as Dr. Jeffrey Garth
Marguerite Churchill as Janet Blake
Irving Pichel as Sandor
Halliwell Hobbes as Hawkins
Billy Bevan as Albert
Nan Grey as Lili
Hedda Hopper as Lady Esme Hammond
Claud Allister as Sir Aubrey
Gilbert Emery as Sir Basil Humphrey, Scotland Yard
Edward Van Sloan as Professor Van Helsing
Edgar Norton as Hobbs, Sir Humphrey's butler
E. E. Clive as Sergeant Wilkes
Christian Rub as Coachman
Vernon Steele as Squires
Fred Walton as Dr. Beemish

[@gterrymed]

The studio executives today would cut all this out! I never even hear classical music in any monster movie like Universal's Dark Universe movies for instance. There's a degree of depth to these movies I grew up with that's not present today; we also the highest rates of overdoses and suicides as if there's a correlation to the lack of depth I'm noticing and the decay of society. It's early I the morning, sorry. WONDERFUL POST ❤ thanks for this post

[@gettyO89]

My pleasure! And yes, classical music dignifies and elevates vibrations, you’re correct, that’s not allowed in popular culture today. They need to keep us at their low level of resentment, rage & envy. Tragic, really.