In précis, the plot for Vertigo sounds like a turgidly standard thriller. After the geometric swirling patterns of the credits, the dash along San Franciscan rooftops all seems a little TV movie humdrum. That's if you've missed the music playing over the top. Bernard Herrmann may not have completed as technical an exercise in scoring as he was to do for Psycho, but this will always ...
This much-anticipated follow up to Joel McNeely's award-winning disc of Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo is yet another landmark in recorded film music. From the opening stabbing chords in the double basses to the unresolved sotto voce suspensions, Herrmann's music for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) is one of the most justifiably famous scores in the literature. In order to ...
William Stromberg conducts two complete scores with the The Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Score restoration by John Morgan, Anna Bonn and William Stromberg. Deluxe 32 page booklet.
THE KENTUCKIAN (1955)
1. Prelude 1:50
2. The Stagecoach 1:18
3. The Jail :26
4. Daydreaming I 1:36
5. Decker :37
6. The Fromes :43
7. Trio 1:01
8. The Key :46
9. The Forest 1:12
10. Morning and Night 2:04
11. The Whip ...