Quartet 2022: FRENZY (Ron Goodwin / Henry Mancini)

[Amer 1,976]

 

 

QUARTET RECORDS ANNOUNCES WORLD PREMIERE:

 

ALFRED HITHCOCK'S FRENZY

 

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film Score: Composed and Conducted by RON GOODWIN
Unused Score: Composed and Conducted by HENRY MANCINI
Limited edition: 3000 units

 

Quartet Records and Universal Pictures Film Music Classics Collection proudly present the world premiere release of both the used and unused scores for Alfred Hitchcock’s FRENZY, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film.

 

FRENZY marked the director’s triumphant return to London in 1972. With an excellent script by Anthony Shaffer, the film was immediately considered one of Hitchcok’s best and has since become a classic.

 

After the parting of ways with Bernard Herrmann, Hitchcock changed composers in each of his last four films, choosing from those who were popular at the time. For FRENZY, his first choice was Henry Mancini (BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, THE PINK PANTHER, HATARI!, CHARADE), who wrote a sumptuous, gothic-hued score featuring an unusual orchestral palette. The main theme uses the dolorous tones and sepulchral pedals of a mighty organ, and the tension-filled score that follows is grim and at times almost brutal. Hitchcock, feeling it was too “dark and cruel,” turned it down and hired celebrated British composer Ron Goodwin (MURDER, SHE SAID, BATTLE OF BRITAIN, WHERE EAGLES DARE, SQUADRON 633) to compose a lighter, yet still suspenseful, score. For the main title, a panoramic shot over the Thames, Goodwin wrote a majestic melody ornamented with trumpets and timpani, in the best English tradition of pomp and circumstance.

 

FRENZY was the only completely rejected score in Henry Mancini’s long career, and also one of the most famous and requested Goodwin scores over the ensuing decades. Neither of them, however, have previously been officially released in any form until today.

 

This collection has been painstakingly produced, restored and mastered by Mike Matessino from stereo and mono elements vaulted at Universal Pictures, with the collaboration of both the Ron Goodwin and Henry Mancini estates.

This special edition features an exclusive, in-depth essay by writer and composer Deniz Cordell packaged in a 28-page booklet.

Film Score Composed and Conducted by RON GOODWIN

1. Main Title (From The Motion Picture ‘Frenzy’) (2:47)
2. Covent Garden (1:00)
3. Frenzy (0:39)
4. Arrival At Brenda’s Flat (0:31)
5. In The Salvation Army Hostel (0:24)
6. Death Of Brenda (2:17)
7. Fugitive From The Coburg Hotel (2:51)
8. A Talk In The Park (2:50)
9. A Spree De Corpse (1:44)
10. Murder Flashback (1:30)
11. Escape And Retribution (6:27)
12. Frenzy (End Title) (0:47)

 

Source Music

 

13. Poem (4:01)
14. Juke Box (2:30)

 

Additional Music

15. Murder Flashback (Alternate) (1:32)
16. Frenzy (End Title) (Film Version Edit) (0:46)

Unused Score Composed and Conducted by HENRY MANCINI

 

17. Prologue (2:37)
18. My Tie Is Your Tie (1:17)
19. My Kind Of Woman (3:12)
20. Son Of My Kind Of Woman (2:21)
21. Exit Oscar Wilde (2:50)
22. Big Drag For Babs (1:05)
23. Hot Potatoes (2:13)
24. Babs Grabs (1:11)
25. The Inspector Thinks (0:53)
26. Rusk On Candid Camera (0:30)
27. Off To Rusk’s Place (4:17)
28. End Credits / End Rusk (0:47)

 

Source Music

29. Posh For Two (3:16)
30. Tijuana On Thames (1:59)

 

Additional Music

31. Prologue (Alternate) (2:53)
32. Babs Grabs (Alternate) (1:11)
33-45. Descriptions for Alfred Hitchcock

https://quartetrecords.com/product/frenzy/

[GerateWohl 3,690]

Every Hitchcock score is welcome!

[Jurassic Shark 11,079]

Are you saying you're in a frenzy about this release?

[GerateWohl 3,690]

Not exactly. But I am curious.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,121]

An instant "must have".

[publicist 4,640]

Short as the Mancini is, i want that.

[Yavar Moradi 2,161]

This Hitchcock premiere twofer is the RELEASE OF THE YEAR for me! Really like the Goodwin score, and have been dying to hear more of the Mancini besides the main title FOREVER.

 

Yavar

[Disco Stu 15,483]

Ordered this via Screen Archives, along with the Magnificent Seven collection

[Jurassic Shark 11,079]

Now we need Jarre's Hitchcock score next!

[Yavar Moradi 2,161]

17 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

No we need Jarre's Hitchcock score next!

That was already released (complete, I think) by Universal Music France in 2012: https://www.discogs.com/release/6651799-Maurice-Jarre-Topaz-LEtau

 

What we really need officially released is an expansion of Addison’s underrated Torn Curtain score (the 28 minute Decca album is all we have), paired with everything Herrmann recorded of his own score at the time of the film.

 

Oh. And an official release of the original Psycho recording, of course, plus any other Herrmann/Hitchcock original recordings which survive in the Universal vaults (no offense to the rerecordings).

 

Yavar

[Marian Schedenig 7,504]

This is an interesting one. I remember liking the Goodwin main title, and I've always been curious about the Mancini score. I'll probably get this.

[Jurassic Shark 11,079]

21 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:

That was already released (complete, I think) by Universal Music France in 2012: https://www.discogs.com/release/6651799-Maurice-Jarre-Topaz-LEtau

 

I know, but that's not a good release and it's been OOP for several years. 

 

21 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:

And an official release of the original Psycho recording

 

[publicist 4,640]

20 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

This is an interesting one. I remember liking the Goodwin main title, and I've always been curious about the Mancini score. I'll probably get this.

 

The Mancini idea for the main title (a Bach-like D-minor piece, very somber and foreboding) is sound, but Hitchcock changed his mind - probably because he felt he should offset the borderline sick vibe the movie gets into with the first long strangling scene. 

[Yavar Moradi 2,161]

1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said:

I know, but that's not a good release and it's been OOP for several years. 

What’s wrong with the release? I admit I never purchased it because I’m not a big fan of the score.

 

Yavar

 

 

[Jurassic Shark 11,079]

The sound sounds like it could be improved. And these Emarcy releases aren't known for trying to hurt down the best sounding masters.

[GerateWohl 3,690]

I would like to get a re-recording of Roy Webb's score for Notorious.

[Corellian2019 371]

11 hours ago, Yavar Moradi said:

Oh. And an official release of the original Psycho recording, of course

 

Whatever happened to this? I remember Stylotone released just the main title on LP, but nothing after that. Didn't we hear through the grapevine that Intrada might be working on it? Or am I confusing that with To Kill A Mockingbird?

[GerateWohl 3,690]

After listening two times I really prefer the Goodwin score, but the Mancini main theme. The celebral main theme of Goodwin seemed to me always out of place when watching the movie about a mad murderer.

[Jurassic Shark 11,079]

You're not supposed to know that at the start of the film.

[GerateWohl 3,690]

But it is anyway not a story taking place in Buckingham Palace or the House of Parlaments or a story about aristocrats. But that is how the main title always sounded like to me.

[Jurassic Shark 11,079]

Well, you're not supposed to know that at the start of the film.

[GerateWohl 3,690]

That's right. I don't know. It might be 20 years ago that I had seen the movie. I just remember, I knew, that I was going to see a Hitchcock movie and that it was supposed to be some kind of murder story and somehow the main title felt out of place. Maybe I should watch it again. But I also remember, that I didn't like the movie. 

So, probably I should just enjoy the music.

Or wait. I just watch the opening again. The movie is part of some Hitchcock DVD Box, that I own.

 

[Jurassic Shark 11,079]

I don't particularly like it either. 

[GerateWohl 3,690]

You really have to be in the mood for Hitchcock's perverts. 

[thestat 310]

Need to get this for some of the Goodwin stuff - the potato sack set piece music with the piccolo was astonishing, if I remember correctly

[GerateWohl 3,690]

The rejected Mancini score almost sounds like a Howard Shore score to me.

[thestat 310]

The most elegant, most perverse 2 minutes of dark waltz composition, influencing 1000s of Goldsmith and Young compositions and there onwards.....

 

[Bespin 7,912]

Someone said "perverse", I have an alarm on that keyword.

 

Yes? 

[thestat 310]

Yes, perverse. Hitchcock. Women. Ties. And shit. And awesome Goodwin score

[Yavar Moradi 2,161]

2 hours ago, thestat said:

The most elegant, most perverse 2 minutes of dark waltz composition, influencing 1000s of Goldsmith and Young compositions and there onwards.....

 

Ever since I first saw the film, this was my favorite cue in the score and the one I wanted most on album.

 

Yavar