Mix of "Swan Lake" and Mansell intense score, terrific!

Only through the perfect harmony of image and music, Aronofsky was beautiful horror trip to the masterpiece that it is now. As with the previous works by Aronofsky, Clint Mansell was responsible for the score. He is aware, through his collaboration with the Kronos Quartet in "Requiem for a Dream", with the famous and ingenious main theme. For "Black Swan" Mansell chose wisely a mix of score and Tchaikovkys "Swan Lake". Unfortunately, could not be nominated for an Oscar the music precisely because of too close reference to the original. But another way would have been never so powerfully. Had Mansell a complete, stand-alone score composed, the reference to the play "Swan Lake" would have been lost.

Mansell is not actually tied with "Black Swan" on issues. As I said, "actually" ...
The topics come to 90% of "Swan Lake", led by the world-famous piece of swan queen. In addition, the composer works a lot with the music of the prologue, especially for the high points in the film. But film music fans should not think that "Black Swan" is a slightly modified version of Tchaikovkys original, no. Mansell varied and shaped by the pieces, sometimes stronger, sometimes subtle. Although the last pieces of the score mainly consist of the original, as the culmination of scores and the film still works but in a very different and powerful, almost breathtaking way!
This is of course in the preparatory work of Mansell. Although treated his music in principle the same theme and the same story as "Swan Lake", but this is much more disturbing to the point! Mansell's score proportion hovering between melancholy, eroticism and madness. Who "Requiem For A Dream" knows who will know his music may be as nerve-wracking. In "Black Swan" is no different.
There are some highlights mentioned: "Lose Yourself" is the motive for Ninas sexual drive, she wants to live out. The delicate and wicked tone of this piece is terrific and perfectly accompanies the intimate scenes. In "Opposites Attract" This subject is further expanded and brought stunningly to climax (in the truest sense ...).
Another example, and above all a testament to Mansell's great achievement is "Night of Terror", a loud, disturbing and nightmarish piece and the full eight minutes!
A rollercoaster ride through Nina's nightmares and hallucinations. In the film, the images are very blatant, but the full effect of Nina's horror only comes fully to bear by the music!
As I said the last title, the main highlights from "Swan Lake", but also perfectly suits the film. First, the music is very beautiful, fragile, then louder and more disturbing and at the end it is really opulent and changes to the original music from "Swan Lake", so the feeling of the big premiere is at the end improved. And here the score comes to its beautiful and brutal finale ("Perfection"). I love the highlight of the Swan Queen theme! While it is the final of the play itself, but here it takes on a whole different effect and you sit at the end with tears in his eyes when Nina falls ultimately.
Finally, we get with "A Swan Song (For Nina)" the wonderful End Credits, again a mix of original and score, with a clanking end ...

Anyone who has seen the film, will see the score even more intense! A masterpiece, despite the mix of the original "Swan Lake" and Mansell's score. Too bad that the soundtrack was not nominated, he would have deserved it. But why do we need Oscars, when we already know that the score is great?
Experience "Swan Lake", like never before! Experience "Black Swan"!