Salonen conducts Bernard Herrmann: The Film Scores $11.98

“Over the years...film music has come into its own. Herrmann has given us some of the most distinct film scores of any composer...What is remarkable is how these works cohere as atmospheric tone poems. Fahrenheit 451: Suite for Strings, Harps, and Percussion has the same kind of atmospherics as some of Arnold Bax's tone poems of the 1930s. This music does not need a visual medium. It's that good..”
Paul Cook, Amazon.com Editorial Review

“One of the more laudable side effects of the "crossover" craze affecting (or afflicting, depending on your perspective) the classical music business has been the reclamation of film music as part of the mainstream symphonic repertoire. It's always belonged there. Before there were movies, composers wrote music for plays, and this so-called "incidental" music has given us some of out most popular classics, including Grieg's Peer Gynt, Beethoven's Egmont, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Bizet's L'Arlesienne. Hermann was one of the great film music composers of all time, and his scores fit naturally into a great and illustrious tradition, nowhere more so than in this award-winning recording.”
David Hurwitz, Amazon.com Editorial Review

"A winner of a disc, in sum, resplendently played and engineered, and excellently annotated by Alex Ross. If this generous new Sony collection doesn’t succeed in alerting a whole new audience to the genius of Bernard Herrmann, then nothing will."
Gramophone

Format: CD
Release Date: 1996 (2005 remaster)
Label: Sony Classical
Length: 76:45
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Contents:
Prelude from The Man Who Knew Too Much
Suite from Psycho
Suite from Marnie
Overture from North by Northwest
Suite from Vertigo
Suite from Torn Curtain (rejected score)
Suite from Fahrenheit 451
Taxi Driver: A Night Piece for Orchestra
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

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