Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Bernard Herrmann, London Studio Symphony Orchestra, laurie johnson Title: North By Northwest: Original Motion Picture Score (1979 Performance) Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Varese Sarabande Release Date: 7/1/1991 Genres: Pop, Soundtracks Style: Easy Listening Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 030206720525 |
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Given the long partnership between the composer and director, it would be so hard to choose a favorite Bernard Herrmann/ Alfred Hitchcock score--just as hard as choosing a favorite Hitchcock/Herrmann movie--especially wh... more » |
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Amazon.com Given the long partnership between the composer and director, it would be so hard to choose a favorite Bernard Herrmann/ Alfred Hitchcock score--just as hard as choosing a favorite Hitchcock/Herrmann movie--especially when it comes down to Vertigo, Psycho, and North By Northwest. They're all so different. But none is more thrilling, none makes you feel more like bouncing around the room (or scampering over the faces on Mt. Rushmore) than this one--strings churning away, with that falling horn figure and the timpani pounding way down below. One thing it shares with the other two films is the circularity of its main theme--Herrmann's music can make you dizzy in more ways than one. --Jim Emerson Similar CDsSimilarly Requested CDs
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CD Reviews"Herrmann was the master craftsman of film music" J. Lovins | Missouri-USA | 11/13/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "Cary Grant and Eva Maria Saint dangle from the faces of Mount Rushmore and a plane chases Grant through farm fields, plenty of plot twists are mixed with tongue-in-cheek humor...what do you have? Plus one of the greatest directors ever to sit behind the camera with one thing in mind, to keep you guessing as the suspense builds, there's only one Alfred Hitchcock for "North By Northwest" (1959)...and there's only one composer who could pull it off, Bernard Herrmann.Herrmann composes the "MAIN TITLE" as a "kaleidoscopic orchestral fandango (spanish dance of South America) designed to get the audience ready for what is in store as the plot thickens. Musically unrelated with other themes of the score is the "ROMANCE ON THE TRAIN", beautifully haunting as we first hear in dialogue between oboe and clarient, then taken up by the strings, wonderful harmonic passages prevail.Miklos Rozsa spoke once of Herrmann's "unblending principles", and nowhere were these more in evidence than in his wholehearted devotion to the cinema. From 1955 to 1964 the Herrmann/Hitchcock teaming yielded one masterpiece after another, during the elaborately-choreographed pursuit and fight to the death on Mount Rushmore - a musical cue Herrmann wittily dubbed "On The Rock"!Total Time: 36:52 on 12 Tracks...Varese Sarabande VSD-47205...(1980)" Definite goosebump material Michelle Holland | Texas | 05/03/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "This is an AWESOME CD. True, it doesn't have as many tracks as the more recent version, but it still gets the job done nicely. The opening track is not to be missed, and the love theme will leave you breathless."
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