Bespin 8,482 Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 My Bernard Herrmann basic CD collection is still not at my taste, but it's better than anything (it was anything, zero, in fact 3 years ago!). The re-recording of North by Northwest is perhaps the most missed piece in my collection actually... Raiders of the SoundtrArk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 I love the re-recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Bespin said: My Bernard Herrmann basic CD collection is still not at my taste, but it's better than anything (it was anything, zero, in fact 3 years ago!). The re-recording of North by Northwest is perhaps the most missed piece in my collection actually... The Egyptian re-recording is a absolute must-have, IMHO. One my favorite Herrmann scores (and Newman's, for that matter) Bespin and Yavar Moradi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 But it's so background musicey. Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amer 2,109 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Your collection is missing a lot. E.g. The Gerhardt recording, Marnie, Trouble With Harry, NBNW, VERTIGO.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Amer said: Your collection is missing a lot. .. So, you're saying it's not complete? 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,369 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 22 hours ago, Bespin said: The re-recording of North by Northwest is perhaps the most missed piece in my collection actually... At one point I gave up and bought it as digital download, same for the Torn Curtain rejected score. Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,482 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Oh I have it in my FLAC folder... I just want the object AT HIS place on the f***ing shelf! 9 hours ago, Amer said: Your collection is missing a lot. E.g. The Gerhardt recording, Marnie, Trouble With Harry, NBNW, VERTIGO.... The Gerhardt recording is at his place with all his friends! GerateWohl and Amer 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yavar Moradi 2,599 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 On 28/5/2022 at 10:16 AM, Jurassic Shark said: But it's so background musicey. Yavar Romão 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I've got the original recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I absolutely love this theme: Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yavar Moradi 2,599 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said: I've got the original recording. Which edition though? I will confess the FSM edition did little for me when I got it. But I adore the score now and cherish my LLL edition. Yavar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 5 hours ago, Yavar Moradi said: LLL Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bespin 8,482 Posted May 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 30, 2022 Walk like an Egyptian. Purchased! Tom Guernsey, Yavar Moradi and Romão 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crocodile 8,012 Posted June 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 2, 2022 Karol MikeH, Jurassic Shark, Madmartigan JC and 1 other 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tom Guernsey 2,284 Posted June 14, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 14, 2022 When entirely innocent searches for cover art go in unintended directions… Naïve Old Fart, Yavar Moradi, Edmilson and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yavar Moradi 2,599 Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 28 minutes ago, Tom Guernsey said: When entirely innocent searches for cover art go in unintended directions… Haha! But apparently you're unaware of Joe Sikoryak's Dropbox containing all of the FSM covers in at least 600x600, and many of them in 1500x1500! https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=114258&forumID=1&archive=0 Yavar Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,284 Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 44 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said: Haha! But apparently you're unaware of Joe Sikoryak's Dropbox containing all of the FSM covers in at least 600x600, and many of them in 1500x1500! https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=114258&forumID=1&archive=0 Yavar Actually I did remember that afterwards as I have the link saved but not before my amusing diversion into Google… Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said: Actually I did remember that afterwards as I have the link saved but not before my amusing diversion into Google… I.e. hours later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMotif 1,037 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Does anyone have this set or have any thoughts on it? I assume it’s Herrmann’s original recordings? Amer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yavar Moradi 2,599 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Original recordings? Apart from Obsession (which has been effectively supplanted by a complete release) I believe these are all Herrmann re-recording film music (his own and others). Here’s a good example with him conducting some great Shostakovich film music: Yavar Naïve Old Fart and karelm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,526 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 On 04/09/2021 at 9:21 PM, Holko said: I was pretty ignorant of Herrmann in general save for a few general pieces of pop culture absorption, and remedying that was in the back of my mind for a while. This Decca Phase 4 set came at a perfect time, and, though it's "just" a reissue of all 7 albums of his released under this label, it happens to be the perfect overview and thus entry point into his works. Represented here are rerecordings/rearrangements of pieces and suites from his Hitchcock and Harryhausen collaboration strings, genres ranging from thriller to fantasy, sci-fi, romantic or adventure, rerecordings of others' works, as well as a proper OST of one of his last scores. The set is very well presented, a nice sturdy cardboard box housing a booklet with detailed album and track information and a small essay about the composer's career and more important works, and of course the discs themselves in cardboard sleeves that are CD-sized facsimiles of the original LP art, front and back - meaning original liner notes with context and track-by track descriptions are also included instead of being lost to time, forgotten or ignored, which I'm always very happy about. I enjoyed reading along, though the font obviously becomes very small and tough to read - bring a magnifier glass or take a photo and zoom in! The sound is what it is, less busy sections mostly sound pretty good, but in grander parts the brass and percussion can suffer. The performances are all very good of course. Overall the set paints the picture of an artist in his last decade not only caring about preserving and commercially presenting his own legacy (not unlike Williams revisiting his own works in concert, for new albums, and of course the remastered expanded reissues), but that of his other fellow film composers as well. I barely skimmed the tracklist and bought this set mostly blind, but I come away with a much more pleasant mental image of Herrmann than what I had before (based on throwaway remarks and anecdotes), and some killer albums to replay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,528 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 For anyone interested, there is a drama on BBC Radio 3, this evening, called "Benny And Hitch". You can probably guess what it's about. It's today, at 19:30hrs., GMT. Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,284 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 36 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: For anyone interested, there is a drama on BBC Radio 3, this evening, called "Benny And Hitch". You can probably guess what it's about. It's today, at 19:30hrs., GMT. Looking forward to this. Includes live music by the BBC Concert Orchestra too. Should be good. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,528 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Yeah. Toby Jones reprising his role, from THE GIRL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,528 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Hmm. Not bad. Not bad, at all. Tim McInnerny let the side down, a bit, but Toby Jones was - as always - brilliant. The music wasn't bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangerMotif 1,037 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Is there a cd out there with Herrmann's recordings for psycho? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Amer 2,109 Posted December 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 26, 2022 11 hours ago, Gibster said: Is there a cd out there with Herrmann's recordings for psycho? Not the original soundtrack recording. But apart from various suites there are two re-recordings of the full score. One conducted by Bernard Herrmann on the Unicorn Kanchana Label released in 1975 and the other being conducted by Joel McNeely with RSNO on the Varese Sarabande label. The best performance re-recorded to date has to be the Steve Bartek - Danny Elfman produced version for the verbatim 1998 remake. The OST recording is abbreviated (slightly altered performance) but highly recommended. All of these are easily available on Ebay. Bespin, Naïve Old Fart and Yavar Moradi 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,913 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 On 24/12/2022 at 8:33 PM, Yavar Moradi said: Original recordings? Apart from Obsession (which has been effectively supplanted by a complete release) I believe these are all Herrmann re-recording film music (his own and others). Here’s a good example with him conducting some great Shostakovich film music: Yavar That's really excellent. Those of us who are fans of both composers can clearly tell each of their touches in this unique interpretation. How nice it would have been to hear one of Shostakovich's Symphonies interpreted by Herrmann. Yavar Moradi and bruce marshall 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,284 Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 I have this album but have always been puzzled by the title... quite an eccentric selection of music too. Anyone know any more about it? https://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/7073/Inquirer%2C+The Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,235 Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 1 hour ago, Tom Guernsey said: I have this album but have always been puzzled by the title... quite an eccentric selection of music too. Anyone know any more about it? https://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/7073/Inquirer%2C+The I have had that CD for the last thirty years or so. The liner notes explain the title given to the first selection of cues from Citizen Kane, but in case you do not have the CD booklet (and for the benefit of others), the title The Inquirer was devised by the album producer John Lasher. Bernard Herrmann... "...indicated, during a 1973 meeting, that he was considering putting together a second suite - the first is the famous Welles Raises Kane - from his Citizen Kane music, this one focusing on period pieces associated with Charles Foster Kane and his influence on those around him." This is one of those rather eclectic (you might well say eccentric!) compilations which actually contains a lot of great stuff, either from Tony Bremner conducted recordings and reissues for the Preamble label or from earlier Entr'acte Recording Society LPs produced by John Lasher. If I recall correctly he even posted here very occasionally back in the day. I sometimes think of Night Digger and Obsession when I attend concerts at St. Giles-without-Cripplegate, imagining Benny barking away at the orchestra in the church where Milton was buried and Cromwell married. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,284 Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 On 08/05/2023 at 8:03 PM, Omen II said: I have had that CD for the last thirty years or so. The liner notes explain the title given to the first selection of cues from Citizen Kane, but in case you do not have the CD booklet (and for the benefit of others), the title The Inquirer was devised by the album producer John Lasher. Bernard Herrmann... "...indicated, during a 1973 meeting, that he was considering putting together a second suite - the first is the famous Welles Raises Kane - from his Citizen Kane music, this one focusing on period pieces associated with Charles Foster Kane and his influence on those around him." This is one of those rather eclectic (you might well say eccentric!) compilations which actually contains a lot of great stuff, either from Tony Bremner conducted recordings and reissues for the Preamble label or from earlier Entr'acte Recording Society LPs produced by John Lasher. If I recall correctly he even posted here very occasionally back in the day. I sometimes think of Night Digger and Obsession when I attend concerts at St. Giles-without-Cripplegate, imagining Benny barking away at the orchestra in the church where Milton was buried and Cromwell married. Thanks for quoting the liner notes - I do have the CD but it's in storage with much of the rest of my collection which is all on iTunes! Glad I asked as the title of this album has long puzzled me and it just happened to pop up when I was scrolling through my library and I thought I should probably ask as I figured someone would know. I half wondered if it was music from some random score that Herrmann did that has never been released, but a second Kane suite makes more sense. Have to admit that I've never been to St. Giles-without-Cripplegate (gotta love those London place names... a perfect companion to St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe) but it's a great image! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,369 Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Wait. I know two Citizen Kane suites. The one recorded by Herrmann himself, that is on the phase4 album, and the one conducted by Charles Gerhardt on his Bernard Herrmann album. Is there another one or is The Inquirer one of these two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen II 1,235 Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 On 10/05/2023 at 1:59 PM, Tom Guernsey said: Have to admit that I've never been to St. Giles-without-Cripplegate (gotta love those London place names... a perfect companion to St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe) but it's a great image! Here are two photos I took at one of the Summer Music in City Churches concerts last year. It is a wonderful venue in which to hear music - I am not surprised that Herrmann chose the church as the recording venue for some of his last few scores. crocodile and Tom Guernsey 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post crocodile 8,012 Posted June 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2023 Finally obtained a copy of this book. Can't wait to dive in. Karol Andy, Amer, 1977 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Its a fantastic biography! wish HE did one on Goldsmith Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,128 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 I imagine the Herrmann biography to be juicy because of his reputation for being so ill-tempered. Knowing that Goldsmith had some demons and a cantankerous side, I would hope any biography on him would not just be a clinical study of his work, but knowing the man himself with all his gifts and human shortcomings. It’s a way to try to understand the music better by knowing the artist. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 4 hours ago, Andy said: Knowing that Goldsmith had some demons and a cantankerous side, I would hope any biography on him would not just be a clinical study of his work, but knowing the man himself with all his gifts and human shortcomings. Isn't that in fact the reason why Carrie Goldsmith's biography was shelved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 19 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said: Isn't that in fact the reason why Carrie Goldsmith's biography was shelved? Didn't that have something to do with Jeff Bond? Of course, he's since released a Goldsmith book all on his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 3 minutes ago, Thor said: Didn't that have something to do with Jeff Bond? Of course, he's since released a Goldsmith book all on his own. Lukas Kendall's intervention was what escalated the situation. But Goldsmith's own comments seem to have been the underlying issue: https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/the-unpublished-jerry-goldsmith-biography Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GerateWohl 4,369 Posted November 15, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2023 Listened to this for the first time. Beautiful suite of the opera. If you are ok with english language opera. This is Herrmann for a change not in his usual abysmal mode but still his typical handwriting. Musically beautiful. You can still hear some Vertigo here and there (like so often). The string quartet is a little boring in my view. Naïve Old Fart, Yavar Moradi and Once 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 All I want for Christmas is this. JTN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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