Bernard Herrmann
Born: 29th June 1911, New York, U.S.A
Died: 24th December 1975, North Hollywood, California, U.S.A
Nationality: American
Bernard Herrmann was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in film scoring. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers. Alex Ross writes that "Over four decades, he revolutionized movie scoring by abandoning the illustrative musical techniques that dominated Hollywood in the 1930s and imposing his own peculiar harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary."
An Academy Award-winner for The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), Herrmann worked in radio drama, composing for Orson Welles's The Mercury Theater on the Air, and his first film score was for Welles's film debut, Citizen Kane (1941). He is known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, notably The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (where he makes a cameo as the conductor at Royal Albert Hall), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963) (as "sound consultant") and Marnie (1964) .
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Bernard Herrmann
26th Jun 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the American composer and conductor, best known for his impressive roster of enormously successful film scores.
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Selections from Bernard Herrmann's only opera, Wuthering Heights
30th Jun 2023
Soprano Keri Fuge and baritone Roderick Williams join the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago to perform highlights from a neglected work by a composer known mostly for his film scores, based on the novel by Emily Brontë.
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- 5 Fingers (3)
- Battle of Neretva (1)
- Beneath the 12-Mile Reef: Suite (1)
- Citizen Kane (4)
- Citizen Kane : Salaambo's Aria (1)
- Citizen Kane: Overture (2)
- Citizen Kane: Rosebud & Finale (1)
- Citizen Kane: Suite (2)
- Concerto Macabre (3)
- Echoes for String Quartet (5)
- Fahrenheit 451 (4)
- Fahrenheit 451: suite for strings, harps and percussion (2)
- For The Fallen (1)
- Garden of Evil (complete film score) (1)
- Gulliver’s Travels (1)
- Hangover Square (1)
- I Have Dreamt (from Wuthering Heights) (2)
- Interlude (3)
- Jane Eyre (4)
- Jason and the Argonauts (1)
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth (4)
- King of the Khyber Rifles: The Attack on the Mountain Stronghold (1)
- Macbeth (1)
- Madeleine and Carlotta's Portrait (1)
- Marnie (3)
- Marnie: Suite (2)
- Moby Dick – A Cantata (2)
- Mysterious Island (1)
- North by Northwest (4)
- North by Northwest: Overture (8)
- Obsession (1)
- On Dangerous Ground: The Death Hunt (1)
- Psycho (10)
- Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra) (5)
- Psycho: A Suite for Strings (9)
- Sinfonietta for Strings (1)
- Souvenir de Voyage for Clarinet Quintet (9)
- Swing Your Partners (2)
- Symphony (1)
- Taxi Driver - A Night-Piece for Orchestra (1)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (4)
- The Devil and Daniel Webster (2)
- The Egyptian (2)
- The Fantasticks (1)
- The Man who Knew too Much: Overture (1)
- The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (6)
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (4)
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Memory Waltz (1)
- The Wrong Man: Prelude (1)
- Torn Curtain (2)
- Vertigo (7)
- Vertigo: love scene (4)
- Vertigo: Suite (4)
- White Witch Doctor: Suite (1)
- Wuthering Heights (1)
- Wuthering Heights: Suite (1)
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