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Herrmann: Vertigo [SOUNDTRACK]

Herrmann: Vertigo [SOUNDTRACK]

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Creators: Bernard Herrmann, Joel McNeely, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music

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Language: English (Original Language)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

EAN: 4005939560027

Release Date: January 1, 2009
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 rank as his finest hour in marrying musical content and visuals. Where this movie distances itself from the norm is in Scottie's predatory obsession with Madeleine; and Herrmann's tragic love theme--inspired by Wagner's "Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde and equally moving--gives substance to the doomed romance. This album is a re-recording taken from Herrmann's own score. In 1958, a musicians' strike meant he was unable to conduct himself, and so the original soundtrack (also available on Varese Sarabande) was conducted by Muir Mathieson. Joel McNeely gives us an idea of how the music might have sounded in Herrmann's own hands. With a sympathetic performance and great sound, this album makes for an even better recommendation than the original. --Paul Tonks

From Amazon.com
This is the most haunting and hypnotic of all of Bernard Herrmann's scores (which include Psycho and North By Northwest)--from the most haunting and hypnotic of all Alfred Hitchcock films. This is deeply mysterious music, in keeping with the echoes of the past that keep recurring in the movie. As the dizzying main theme opens up before you, you can feel yourself falling right right in. (Herrmann himself did a sort of variation on it for Obsession, the 1976 Paul Schrader/Brian DePalma re-working of Vertigo, released when the earlier picture had been out of circulation for many years.) Perhaps the greatest compliment one could give this soundtrack is that it's as powerful and unforgettable as the images it was written to accompany. And it stands beautifully on its own, as well. --Jim Emerson

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