Track Listing 1. Prelude 2. City, The 3. Marion 4. Marion and Sam 5. Temptation 6. Flight 7. Patrol Car, The 8. Car Lot, The 9. Package, The 10. Rainstorm, The 11. Hotel Room 12. Window, The 13. Parlour, The 14. Madhouse, The 15. Peephole, The 16. Bathroom, The 17. Murder, The 18. Body, The 19. Office, The 20. Curtain, The 21. Water, The 22. Car, The 23. Swamp, The 24. Search, The 25. Shadow, The 26. Phone Booth 27. Porch, The 28. Stairs, The 29. Knife, The 30. Search, The 31. First Floor, The 32. Cabin 10 33. Cabin 1 34. Hill, The 35. Bedroom, The 36. Toys, The 37. Cellar, The 38. Discovery 39. Finale
| Details | | Playing Time: | 12 min. | | Distributor: | n/a | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | ADD |
Album Notes Recording information: Barking Town Hall, London, England (10/02/1975). Performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the composer. An early champion of new music, conducting premieres of several Charles Ives scores in the '30s, Herrmann completely changed the idea of the film score from heavily operatic and kitschy "incidental music" to using only the barest of melody-like gestures or patterns in pure theme-and-variations form. This procedure is fully demonstrated in this recording, in his score for Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) with its shocking polytonal harmonies (Mercury 422 106-2, issued 1986), and even in his last score for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) (Varese Sarabande VSD-5279, issued 1986) where the patterns over jazz harmonies are as totally symmetrical, as in the work of John Coltrane (especially "Naima" and "Giant Steps") and Jon Gibson. The orchestration and extended harp arpeggios recall his music for Nicholas Ray's On Dangerous Ground (1951) (issued on videodisc, Image Entertainment 1989) and Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (issued on videodisc, CBS Fox 1011-80) which sounds remarkably like a Philip Glass score. In interviews, Glass has stated his early interest in Herrmann's music. Herrmann's concert music is more traditional but still remarkable for its clarity of line (especially recommended is the Souvenirs de Voyage for clarinet and string quartet (1967) issued 1991 on Delos DE 3088). ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny
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