Bernard Herrmann - Psycho: The Complete Original Motion Picture Score
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Artist: Bernard HerrmannEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1997-07-29
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Prelude
- The City
- Marion
- Marion and Sam
- Temptation
- Flight
- Patrol Car
- The Car Lot
- The Package
- The Rainstorm
- Hotel Room
- The Window
- The Parlor
- The Madhouse
- The Peephole
- The Bathroom
- The Murder
- The Body
- The Office
- The Curtain
- The Water
- The Car
- Cleanup
- The Swamp
- The Search
- The Shadow
- Phone Booth
- The Porch
- The Stairs
- The Knife
- The Search (B)
- The First Floor
- Cabin 10
- Cabin 1
- The Hill
- The Bedroom
- The Toys
- The Cellar
- Discovery
- Finale
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Free Music Review: Herrmann's Famous Score Complete on CD
Hit: 5 Stars
My favorite classic movie scores are Leonard Bernstein's for ON THE WATERFRONT (1954), Alfred Newman's for THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (1959) - and Bernard Herrmann's for PSYCHO (1960). Herrmann composed his all-strings, "black-and-white" score at around the same time he wrote the hauntingly beautiful music for such memorable episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE as "Walking Distance" and "The Lonely." The parts of the extensive PSYCHO score that stayed with me most after seeing the movie for the first time were the "flight" theme (when Marion Crane, after having embezzled money, is fleeing in her car from the police); the "temptation" theme (heard as the camera focuses on the stolen money lying on Marion's bed); and, of course, the squealing violins of the two famous murders: Marion's (in the shower) and Detective Arbogast's (on the stairs). All of that music - and in fact, the entire movie score - is captured vividly in this 1996 recording by Joel Mc Neeley and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. The recorded sound is spacious, the strings lush in the almost-Romantic "Marion" and "Marion and Sam" themes. So great is the PSYCHO score that it fully deserved this complete, modern recording. Let's hope that Mc Neeley and his orchestra record Herrmann's TWILIGHT ZONE themes, too.
Psycho: The Complete Original Motion Picture Score Poster
Much has been made of composer Bernard Herrmann's choice to use only razor-sharp, slashing strings for his score to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And heaven knows it works like a dream (or a nightmare), the music feeling as edgy and colorless as the noir-ish black-and-white photography. But as noticeably effective as the knife-screeching violins are in the famous shower scene (followed by those deadly blows from the basses and cellos), they work just as powerfully--though perhaps not as noticeably--all throughout the picture. Herrmann evokes dread and tension with just a few notes, or captures Janet Leigh's flighty panic in pizzicato as she hits the fateful road to the Bates Motel after impulsively stealing a large sum of money from her employer. --Jim EmersonSoundtracks Music CDs
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