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# Bernard Herrmann Film Scores Conducted By Elmer Bernstein/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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Elmer Bernstein is a name synonymous with creativity, versatility and longevity. He was a composer of many facets. His Broadway scores and concert-hall music, though not as famous as his film themes, were written with equal passion and verve. Bernstein was unique. His musical voice was his own, identifiable and unmistakable. But he was also a caring and sympathetic leader on behalf of the composing community of Hollywood, always fighting for composers' rights and for great music to be heard. This album, Bernard Herrmann Film Scores, a tribute to his friend, was recorded in London on December 1st and 2nd, 1992, with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was originally released on Milan Records in 1993, and we are proud to offer it once again. Highlights include Taxi Driver, Psycho, Citizen Kane, Fahrenheit 451, Vertigo and North By Northwest.

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## Customer Reviews

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    A COMPOSER WHO KNEW TOO MUCH: HERRMANN CD PREMIÈRES
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2014*

This is an outstanding programme, laid down in 1992 (recall that Elmer Bernstein recorded Herrmann's full but rejected score for TORN CURTAIN for Warners as early as 1977, also with the RPO). This set predates Esa-Pekka Salonen's excellent HERRMANN: THE FILM SCORES (Sony) by four years, and both can be highly recommended, for their overlap is minimal and each set has special virtues I'll attempt to summarize:Salonen offers (theme only) MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, the string shrieks from PSYCHO, a fine chunk from MARNIE, the NORTH BY NORTHWEST fandango, a representative bleeding chunk from VERTIGO, cool excerpts from the scrapped TORN CURTAIN score, wonderful snippets from FAHRENHEIT 451 and finally a totally idiomatic mean-streets potpourri (including "Bloodbath") from TAXI DRIVER. His anthology is unabashedly commercial, appealing to the widest possible audience and a perfect introduction to tetchy BH. It is beautifully played by the LAPO on Herrmann's adoptive home turf and quite spectacularly recorded, with seismic bass penetration in TAXI DRIVER.Bernstein's very comprehensive survey is more scholarly, clearly the result of offbeat programming by the conductor and album coordinator Christopher Palmer. KANE and DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER (a fascinating score for a very fey film) are given brief due, then a complete 12-minute performance of Arthur Benjamin's gloriously kitschy (Elgarian pipe organ and unhesitant cymbalist included) "Storm Clouds Cantata" from MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, set to a Wyndham Lewis text which is helpfully supplied in the booklet. This is a recording première (there's a 2012 followup version conducted by Rumon Gamba on Chandos) and reason enough for owning this disc. The purely intentional high-kitsch quotient directly recalls the "impossible" SALAMMBO aria in CITIZEN KANE, thrillingly sung by Dame Kiri on Gerhardt's spectacular RCA anthology. In the Benjamin cantata reverberating in the Royal Albert Hall that foreboding fermata, then the cymbal clash sending Doris Day into complex maternal tizzy, is perfectly recreated in this Bernstein/RPO performance. (Although the booklet carelessly credits the "Ambrosia Singers"—actually the great Ambrosians—that climactic cymbal clash echoes lastingly through film history, a triumph of quick cuts directly edited to the music and even more dramatic than Janet Leigh's fateful final shower.)Bernstein continues apace with brief PSYCHO stretti, the rare Prelude for THE WRONG MAN (another recording première), seven choice minutes from VERTIGO and the NORTH BY NORTHWEST fandango. THE BRIDE WORE BLACK is represented by Palmer's 12-minute pastiche (another première, this is prime Herrmann of special value), five minutes from FAHRENHEIT and the cleansing TAXI DRIVER coda (nine minutes played less authentically in London than in Los Angeles, the Thameside streets being tamer).On balance, this Bernstein set is preferable for including the Storm Clouds Cantata and the generous BRIDE WORE BLACK excerpts, but I'd not be without either this or Salonen's less adventurous sequel. They complement one another, and coupled with Gerhardt's colorful, indispensable RCA anthology (absent any Hitchcock scores) are a dandy synopsis of BH's most important film compositions. His inventive scifi/fantasy films are another matter entirely, and there Herrmann's own Phase 4 recordings, newly remastered by DG and previously compiled by Decca/Eloquence (still sonically weighty), are particularly collectable.

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    Only liked one song
  

*by M***Y on Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2014*

Got this disk so I could hear Bernard Hermann's score from The Man Who Knew Too Much.This from a guy who knew too little.I loved that score as well as the score from North By Northwest.The rest of the album is pretty disappointing.If I was smarter, I would have just gotten the $0.99 download of the song I wanted.Make sure you check all the tracks before you buy.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    music of bernard herrman
  

*by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2011*

I was thrilled to listen to the music by this composer this caused me to rent out some of the films for which he composed.

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