Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver: Original Soundtrack Recording
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Artist: Bernard HerrmannEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1998-05-19
Music Label: Arista
Soundtracks:
- Main Title (Herrmann)
- Thank God For The Rain (Herrmann)
- Cleaning The Cab (Herrmann)
- I Still Can't Sleep/They Cannot Touch (Herrmann)
- Phone Call/ I Realize How Much She Is (Herrmann)
- .44 Magnum Is A Monster (Herrmann)
- Getting Into Shape/Listen You... (Herrmann)
- Sport and Iris (Herrmann)
- $20 Bill/Target Practice (Herrmann)
- Assassination Attempt/After The... (Herrmann)
- Reluctant Hero/Betsy/End Credits (Herrmann)
- Diary Of A Taxi Driver (Album... (Herrmann)
- God's Lonely Man (Album Version, With (Herrmann)
- Theme From Taxi Driver (Herrmann)
- I Work The Whole City (Herrmann)
- Betsy In A White Dress (Herrmann)
- Days Do Not End (Herrmann)
- Theme From Taxi Driver (Reprise) (Herrmann)
Free Music Notes for Taxi Driver: Original Soundtrack Recording
Free Music Review: THIS is the version to get!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an import from Arista Europe. Upon first glance, the only difference between this and the American version is that this CD is cleverly made to resemble a vinyl disc from it's 1975 release, not 1968 as the Amazon product description states.
The good news is that the difference between this version and the US version extends far beyond the merely superficial and cosmetic. This soundtrack sounds so crisp, it sizzles! No wonder, since it's a 20-bit transfer mastered from the original tapes.
I've been a huge fan of Bernard Hermann (and Martin Scorsese) for many years and I've never heard this music sound so sparklingly clear and detailed. Beyond all this, there's a stunning dynamic range on this disc that simply blows the US version out of the water.
I'm completely delighted with the sonic quality of this disc and would recommend it without reservation to anyone who appreciates Bernard Hermann's incomparable scoring.
Taxi Driver: Original Soundtrack Recording Poster
American composer Bernard Herrmann's last film score was for director Martin Scorsese's (and writer Paul Schrader's) deeply unsettling, Dostoyevskian film noir, Taxi Driver--a portrait of urban alienation that's never been matched. In the slow-motion images of New York City as Dante's Inferno (steam rising into the air to suggest the hellfire below), the orchestral music is ominous and dissonant, a rumble and crash that rises up from the underworld. But Herrmann's other major motif is a slinky, smoldering sax theme that suggests the forbidden pleasures of big-city nightlife--bars and clubs, prostitutes and porno palaces--things Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) may himself indulge in, but that give him no pleasure. (In fact, they disgust him.) The soundtrack features a track in which Herrmann's music is played behind bits and pieces of narration from Travis's "diary": "Some day a real rain will come along and sweep all the scum off the streets." Unforgettable music, unforgettable movie. --Jim EmersonVinyl Classics reissue of the 1968 Original Soundtrack comes as a vinyl look-a-like CD that's packaged in a die-cut see-through Slipcase. Arista. 2005.
Limited Edition Reissue of this Classic Album Presented in a Special Package featuring a CD with a Top Side that Resembles an Original LP Vinyl Album, but Don't Let the Looks Deceive You...it's A Fully Playable CD.
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