BERNARD HERRMANN

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THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR, Volume 1
Original Television Soundtrack
Music Composed by Bernard Herrmann
Limited Edition of 3000 copies

Our celebration of Bernard Herrmann's 100th birthday begins with one of the most important and exciting Herrmann releases in many years! After a wait of nearly 50 years since they were composed we offer a 2-CD set featuring eight never-before-released scores by Bernard Herrmann for the classic television series The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

The hour-long Hitchcock episodes allowed Herrmann's music to really take the form of mini-film scores unto themselves. And Herrmann wrote 17 of them for the series!

This premiere release features the classic 8-bassoon Herrmann arrangement of Gounod’s Funeral March Of A Marionette along with the complete scores A Home Away From Home, You’ll Be The Death of Me, Nothing Ever Happens In Linvale, Behind The Locked Door, Body In The Barn, Change of Address, Water’s Edge and The McGregor Affair. There’s action, romance, macabre humor and lots of classic, chilling Herrmann suspense.

Featuring nearly 2 1/2 hours of Bernard Herrmann, this is a landmark release and an absolute must for all fans of the composer's work.

Our Bernard Herrmann festivities will continue on July 2 with a thrilling concert tribute to the composer hosted by Robert Townson and conducted by Diego Navarro at Fimucité 5 in Tenerife!

Price: $29.98
Catalog #: VCL 0511 1119

Disc One (75:08)

1. Main Title
“Funeral March Of A Marionette” (:24)
Composed by Charles Gounod
Arranged and Conducted by Bernard Herrmann

A Home Away From Home
2. Suite 1 (2:52)
Chapter Title / Doctor’s Office / Two Doctors / Crushing Glasses / Dead Doctor
3. Suite 2 (2:55)
Bumper 1 / Sarah Complains / Apprehensive Natalie / Uncertain Natalie
4. Suite 3 (1:26)
Bumper 2 / Natalie Climbs Stairs / Natalie Sees Body / Natalie Trying Door
5. Suite 4 (8:09)
Bumper 3 / Natalie Trying The Door / Horrified Natalie / Natalie Running / Panicky Natalie / Trying To Escape / Natalie Seeking Sarah / Natalie In Sarah’s Room / Frantic Natalie

You’ll Be The Death Of Me
6. Suite 1 (7:54)
Chapter Title / Rose Following Driver / Betty Rose Dies / Driver Comforts Mickey / Strange Button / Mickey Pretties Herself
7. Suite 2 (3:06)
Strange Visitor / Ruby & Mickey / Ruby & Dog
8. Suite 3 (3:28)
Mickey’s Big Reaction / Death / Driver Soothes Mickey / Mickey Questions Driver / False Search
9. Suite 4 (5:38)
Mickey Follows Driver / Mickey’s Realization / Driver Kills Mickey / Anguished Driver / Mickey’s Body Found / End Title

Nothing Ever Happens In Linvale
10. Suite 1 (3:24)
Chapter Title / Jarvis / Wister / Wister At Hospital / Wister In Reception Room / Linvale
11. Suite 2 (4:10)
Bridge Game / Puzzled Sheriff / Mrs. Logan / Hole In Garden / Jarvis At Hole / Jarvis Sees Mrs. Logan / Frightened Mrs. Logan / Wister & Mrs. Logan
12. Suite 3 (5:14)
Wister At Grave / Wister and Jarvis / Jarvis & Car / Jarvis Filling Hole #1 / Jarvis Filling Hole #2 / Something Buried / Dead Dog
13. Suite 4 (6:19)
Jarvis’ Sorrowful Tale / Mrs. Logan At Door / Jarvis At Logan House / Lovers / Jarvis & Corpse #1 / Jarvis & Corpse #2 / End Title

Behind The Locked Door
14. Suite 1 (6:13)
Chapter Title / Stranger In Car / Dave Scares Bonnie / Fascinating Mystery / Dave Exploring
15. Suite 2 (5:07)
Bonnie’s Mother / Dave Leaves / Bonnie Visits Dave / Dave Makes Bonnie Promise / Happy Moment / Door
16. Suite 3 (4:18)
Making Up Suicide Note / Sleeping Pill / Mrs. Daniel Finds Body / Bonnie’s Death
17. Suite 4 (3:58)
Laura’s Office / David Revisits House / Dave Still Searching / End Title

Disc Two (68:29)

Body In The Barn
1. Suite 1 (5:17)
Chapter Title / Note Found / Sheriff & Samantha / Bessie’s Kitchen / Watching Samantha /
Uninvited Callers / To Commercial #1
2. Suite 2 (4:35)
Out Of Commercial #1 / Bessie At Window / Peace Offering / Bessie Prowling / To Commercial #2
3. Suite 3 (2:13)
Out Of Commercial #2 / Samantha Not Believed / Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (trad., arr. Herrmann) / Visitor For Bessie / Henry Returns Home / To Commercial #3
4. Suite 4 (6:01)
Out Of Commercial #3 / Groggy Bessie / Henry Visits Bessie / Bessie Orders Henry Out / Bessie Conniving / End Title

Change Of Address
5. Suite 1 (6:20)
Chapter Title / Brooding / End Of The World / Elsa Comforted / To Commercial #1
6. Suite 2 (2:05)
Seashore / Cellar / To Commercial #2
7. Suite 3 (6:42)
Elsa’s Despondence / To Commercial #3 / Photo / Start Of Something / Detectives / End Title

Water’s Edge
8. Suite 1 (5:57)
Chapter Title / Mike Reminisces / Prison Hospital / Newsie’s Tip / Rendezvous / To Commercial #1
9. Suite 2 (4:10)
Out Of Commercial / To Commercial #2 / Peter’s Shack / Shack Searched / Boat House
10. Suite 3 (4:49)
Money Box / Konk On The Head / End Title

The McGregor Affair
11. Suite 1 (5:05)
Old Edinburgh / Street Meetings / Heavy Casket / Doctor Inspects Casket / To Commercial /
Out Of Commercial
12. Suite 2 (4:53)
Exuberant Aggie / Mac Ducks Aggie / Aggie The Nymph / Cobbler’s Shop / Human Hair / Mac Opens Coffin / Aggie Drunk / To Commercial #2
13. Suite 3 (2:08)
Mac & Drunk Aggie / Killer Burke / Tommy Lad / To Commercial #3 / Out Of Commercial #2
14. Suite 4 (6:47)
Aggie In Coffin / Remorseful Mac / Drunken Mac / Burke’s Ruse / Stranger In Coffin / End Title

15. End Title
“Funeral March Of A Marionette” (:56)
Composed by Charles Gounod
Arranged and Conducted by Bernard Herrmann

I haven't listened to the clips yet but this is the only Club release that I'm interested in.

To me, if I had the money, this would be the purchase; maybe the Newman as well.

Excellent. V2 is something to look forward to.

Well, as I posted in this thread back in January:
http://www.maintitles.net/forum/discuss … nn/#Item_1


So, I'd start saving money, if I were you.

I'm looking forward also

A link to a nice piece on the CBS News website on Bernard Herrmann that was posted recently on FSM messageboard:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-2 … 91698.html

On this day 100 years ago one of the most influential composers of the 20th century was born: Bernard Herrmann.

One of my favourite composers (if not my favourite composer), Herrmann's music is hypnotic, emotional and action-packed. Sometimes all within the space of only a few bars of music.

Remakes of 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason And The Argonauts, Myserious Island etc would all be scored with huge choirs now, Herrmann didn't need cover-ups like that to give us some of the most sublime fantasy music ever.

I notice that the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is playing Herrmann's score to Psycho live to pictures in Glasgow in September:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/events/?id=635

I really need to see some Herrmann music live in this centenary year of his birth!

Just booked a couple of tickets for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra playing Bernard Herrmann's score to Psycho live to picture. The concert is in Glasgow on the 17th September and will mark my first "event" celebrating the centenary celebrations of the composer's birth.

Looking forward to it already!

I am looking forward to seeing if the orchestra really attacks the music when required but also maintains the more restrained parts.

And costing only £12 a ticket I think it is a bit of a bargain price compared to some events.

And if you also bought tickets for a Herrmann-themed concert on the following afternoon you could get both tickets for £20. But we need to return home that day so cannot go.

I don't think I'll ever hear a contemporary composer write an action piece as wild and thrilling as Herrmann's Death Hunt for On Dangerous Ground.

Anyone wishing to watch the suite of music from Psycho that was played at the BBC Proms concert the other night can watch it here.

I wish we could have spent more time watching the musicians rather than the conductor.

A pretty good choice.

Or better known as the movie no one wanted to make!!!