The post I made was something along the lines of - I've watched about forty minutes of Vampire Circus and really must get back to it someday. I put on North By Northwest, because that always makes me happy. Watched the first twenty minutes, then decided to listen to the Varese rerecording of the score. I am no fan of their rerecordings, but I remember thinking that this one was better than most - but it's not. I simply think I hadn't heard the original in a while. The orchestra is double the size of what was used for the film, and that renders the orchestrations washy and unfocused. The orchestra blends seem off, too. The Blu and Ray has an isolated track and that's the way to go - no one conducted Herrmann like Herrmann and he's the only one who truly got the unique Herrmann sound of strings and brass.
