Music for Alfred Hitchcock
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Composer or Director: Danny Elfman, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bernard Hermann, Franz Waxman, Arthur Benjamin
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Toccata Classics
Magazine Review Date: 02/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 81
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: TOCC0241
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Concert Overture |
Bernard Hermann, Composer
Bernard Hermann, Composer Danish National Symphony Orchestra John Mauceri, Conductor |
Rebecca, Movement: Suite |
Franz Waxman, Composer
Danish National Symphony Orchestra Franz Waxman, Composer John Mauceri, Conductor |
Rear Window, Movement: Suite |
Franz Waxman, Composer
Danish National Symphony Orchestra Franz Waxman, Composer John Mauceri, Conductor |
Strangers On a Train, Movement: Suite |
Dimitri Tiomkin, Composer
Danish National Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Tiomkin, Composer John Mauceri, Conductor |
Dial M for Murder, Movement: Suite |
Dimitri Tiomkin, Composer
Danish National Symphony Orchestra Dimitri Tiomkin, Composer John Mauceri, Conductor |
Vertigo |
Bernard Hermann, Composer
Bernard Hermann, Composer Danish National Symphony Orchestra John Mauceri, Conductor |
North by Northwest |
Bernard Hermann, Composer
Bernard Hermann, Composer Danish National Symphony Orchestra John Mauceri, Conductor |
Psycho |
Bernard Hermann, Composer
Bernard Hermann, Composer Danish National Symphony Orchestra John Mauceri, Conductor |
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Storm Clouds – Cantata |
Arthur Benjamin, Composer
Arthur Benjamin, Composer Danish National Concert Choir Danish National Symphony Orchestra John Mauceri, Conductor Klaudia Kidon, Soprano |
Hitchcock: Music from the End Credits |
Danny Elfman, Composer
Danish National Symphony Orchestra Danny Elfman, Composer John Mauceri, Conductor |
Author: Guy Rickards
The main performing plaudits on this disc go to the Danish National Symphony Orchestra under John Mauceri, of course, not least in the conductor’s restoration of the gripping ‘Narrative for string orchestra’ Herrmann made in 1968 from Psycho. This catches all the suspense, drama and terror of what remains one of the greatest film scores ever penned. Herrmann made several concert extracts from his cinematic music, as in the beautiful Prelude and Love scene from Vertigo (1958).
Hitchcock worked with other composers, including Franz Waxman – Rebecca (1940) and the wonderfully diverse score of Rear Window (1950, the music built only from what James Stewart can hear through his window) – and, on the iconic Strangers on a Train (1951) and Dial M for Murder (1954), Dimitri Tiomkin. These four scores are represented by suites in Mauceri’s own editions; the Tiomkin, along with the overture from The Man Who Knew Too Much and the Psycho Narrative, here receive their first recordings. First class sound; strongly recommended.
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