Music Composed and Conducted by Bernard Herrmann
Performed by The national Philharmonic Orchestra & The London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Bernard Herrmann
Flac – Artwork Included – CD Released 2010 – 2Disc
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Tracklist
Disc 1
Journey to the Center of the Earth 14:59
1. Mountain Top and Sunrise
2. Prelude
3. The Grotto
4. Salt Slides
5. Atlantis
6. The Giant Chameleon and the Fight
7. The Shaft and Finale
The Senventh Voyage of Sinbad 8:22
8. Overture
9. The Duel With the Skeleton
10. Baghdad
Tha day the Erath Stood Still 11:39
11. Outer Space
12. Radar
13. Gort
14. The Robot
15. Space Control
16. Terror17. Farewell and Finale
Farenheit 451 10:42
18. Prelude
19. Fire Engine
20. The Bedroom
21. Flowers of Fire
22. The Road and Finale
Gulliver’s Travells 25:58
23. Overture
24. Minuetto – Wapping
25. Hornpipe
26. Lilliputations 1 & 2
27. Victory 1 & 2
28. Escape
29. The King’s March
30. Trees
31. The Tightrope
32. Lovers
33. The Chess Game
34. Pursuit
35. Finale
Disc 2
Citizen Kane 13:26
1. Overture
2. Variations
3. Ragtime
4. Finale
Jane Eyre 13:15
5. Jane Eyre
The Devil and Daniel Webster 4:38
6. Sleigh-ride
7. Swing Your Partners
The Snows of Kilimanjaro 10:53
8. Interlude
9. The Memory Waltz
Myterious Island 14:30
10. Prelude
11. The Balloon
12. The Giant Crab
13. The Giant Bee
14. The Giant Bird
Jason and the Argonauts 10:59
15. Prelude
16. Talos
17. Talos’s Death
18. Triton
Thank you so much for Bernard Herrmann!
The two-CD compilation largely comprises music written for a sequence of fantasy films, and shows the composer’s considerable skill in matters of orchestration, with vivid depictions of The Giant Bee and Giant Crab from the Mysterious Island being just two quirky examples. The artificially balanced Decca Phase 4 recordings are engineered for maximum colouristic effect, with the Duel with the Skeleton (from The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad) striking with its tangible percussive effects – one of the highlights of this collection. Gulliver’s Travels features some especially delightful pastiche writing, with its ‘regal’ overture, a Haydn-esque minuetto, but it is the Lilliputians music which is the most piquant item here. Fahrenheit 451 features some especially atmospheric writing, and the Citizen Kane excerpts (the composer’s first film score) show just how lively his musical imagination was from the beginning of his career. The Memory Waltz from The Snows of Kilimanjaro is lively and wistful.