Bernard Herrmann - At 20th Century Fox (2011) [14CD Box Set]

Limited-edition boxed set from Varese Sarabande (only 1000 copies and now out-of-print) of 14 CDs featuring music from 18 scores: "Jane Eyre", "Anna and the King of Siam", "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "5 Fingers", "Hangover Square", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "A Hatful of Rain", "White Witch Doctor", "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef", "The Egyptian", "Garden of Evil", "King of the Khyber Rifles", "Blue Denim", "Prince of Players", "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", and "Tender Is the Night." The set includes many previously unreleased tracks, improved sound on previously released scores, and four previously unreleased scores ("The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "White Witch Doctor", "5 Fingers", and "Hangover Square").

Bernard Herrmann was arguably the most innovative film composer of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, even though he actually rejected the term "film composer," preferring to call himself a composer who sometimes wrote film scores. That was an apt description for a musician who, in addition to his film work, also composed works in a variety of other forms including opera, symphony, musical comedy, and concert music, as well as writing extensively for radio and television, while maintaining a concurrent conducting career that found him wielding a baton before major orchestras in New York, London, Los Angeles, and other cities, and in recording studios where he committed many of his compositions and those of other composers to disc. Nevertheless, his greatest fame came as an Academy Award-winning movie scorer who provided background music for 47 feature films released between 1941 and 1976, among them such cinema classics as Citizen Kane, Psycho, and Taxi Driver. That isn't actually such a large number of credits for the typical A-list Hollywood composer, who might have been expected to score twice as many motion pictures in three and a half decades. But Herrmann was deliberately selective in accepting screen assignments, determined to take the time to orchestrate his own scores, a practically unheard-of practice that contributed to the unusual nature of his writing. Unlike his peers and their arrangers, who tended to make full use of the existing orchestras at the movie studios, resulting in scores that sounded like traditional classical music, he made unusual decisions about what instruments to use, often employing far fewer musicians to more striking effect. Nor was he much interested in writing conventional melodic themes, preferring instead ostinatos and dramatic sound-effects-like passages that emphasized the suspenseful developments in his films for director Alfred Hitchcock, for example, or brought out the grandeur of the fantasy elements in his films for producer Charles Schneer and special effects expert Ray Harryhausen.



Tracks:



Disk 1 - Jane Eyre (1943)

01. Prelude (2:40)
02. Jane's Departure (2:58)
03. Jane Alone (1:50)
04. Dreaming (1:05)
05. Vanity (1:08)
06. Jane's Sorrow (2:29)
07. Time Passage (0:37)
08. The Letter (1:00)
09. Thornfield Hall (3:08)
10. Valze Bluette Adele (1:11)
11. Rochester (2:40)
12. The Piano (2:15)
13. Promenade (1:27)
14. Rochester's Past (2:07)
15. The Fire (2:57)
16. Duo (1:48)
17. The Door (1:15)
18. Spingtime (1:58)
19. Mr. Mason (3:35)
20. The Room (1:31)
21. The Rattle (1:26)
22. The Garden (3:45)
23. Farewell (1:55)
24. Jane's Confession (2:05)
25. The Storm (2:33)
26. The Wedding (1:27)
27. The Life (0:54)
28. Jane's Farewell (4:36)
29. The Letter Begins (0:26)
30. Jane's Return (2:45)
31. Finale (2:47)
32. Prelude [Alternate] (2:51)


Disk 2 - Anna And The King Of Siam (1946)

01. Prelude (1:51)
02. The Kralahome (2:25)
03. The Street (0:39)
04. Siam (2:55)
05. Wait (0:28)
06. The Almanac (0:17)
07. The King (1:41)
08. The Harem (0:22)
09. The Children (0:42)
10. The Teacher (1:12)
11. The Courtyard (1:38)
12. Anger (0:20)
13. Fish Market (1:00)
14. The First Lesson (0:53)
15. Pandemonium (0:29)
16. Tuptim (2:35)
17. Lost Cambodia (3:35)
18. The Abduction (0:27)
19. The Letters (0:33)
20. Lady Thiang (1:18)
21. 2:00 A.M. (0:58)
22. 3:00 A.M. (1:02)
23. Tuptim's Slave (0:27)
24. The Pomegranate (1:44)
25. The Dresses (0:26)
26. The Hall Of Women (0:29)
27. 4:00 A.M. (0:23)
28. The Golden Goblets (0:21)
29. The Ladies (0:40)
30. The Reception (1:19)
31. The Banquet (1:44)
32. The Gift (0:52)
33. Suspense (1:06)
34. The Dungeon (1:58)
35. The Second Dinner (0:41)
36. Cruelty (1:06)
37. The Stake (0:53)
38. The Offering (0:19)
39. The Legend Of The Panels (3:24)
40. The Fall (0:33)
41. Sorrow (1:24)
42. Consolation (1:26)
43. Montage (1:16)
44. The Last Call (0:26)
45. Elegy (4:58)
46. Memories (1:39)
47. The Coronation (2:33)
48. Chant No. 1 (1:18)
49. Chant No. 2 (1:41)
50. Anger (Four Takes) (1:20)
51. Home Sweet Home (0:54)



Disk 3 - The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)

01. Prelude (1:57)
02. Local Train (0:30)
03. The Sea (2:02)
04. The Painting (2:08)
05. The Bedroom (1:02)
06. Exit (0:41)
07. Outside (1:04)
08. The Ghost (1:45)
09. The Storm (2:06)
10. Evocation (1:22)
11. The Apparition (1:13)
12. About Ships (1:20)
13. The Lights (0:29)
14. Bedtime (2:00)
15. Anger (0:25)
16. Poetry (2:07)
17. The In-Laws (1:36)
18. Pranks (0:37)
19. Lucia (0:56)
20. Dictation (0:34)
21. Boyhood's End (1:14)
22. Pastoral (0:52)
23. Seamen (0:35)
24. Nocturne (2:19)
25. London (0:48)
26. The Reading (0:57)
27. Second Local Train (0:47)
28. The Spring Sea (4:37)
29. Consolation (0:29)
30. Question (0:37)
31. Romance (1:24)
32. Love (0:22)
33. Farewell (3:20)
34. The Home (1:13)
35. Sorrow (1:42)
36. The Empty Room (0:55)
37. The Passing Years (1:11)
38. Andante Cantabile (3:18)
39. The Late Sea (1:48)
40. Forever (2:13)
41. The Sea [alternate] (1:37)
42. The Painting [alternate] (1:40)
43. Evocation [alternate] (1:00)
44. Poetry [alternate] (2:08)
45. The In-Laws [alternate] (1:37)
46. Seamen [alternate] (0:35)
47. Exit [alternate - two takes] (1:18)


Disk 4 - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

01. Prelude - Outer Space - Radar (3:50)
02. Danger (0:23)
03. Klaatu (2:16)
04. Gort - The Visor and the Ray - The Telescope (2:25)
05. Escape (0:55)
06. Arlington (1:09)
07. Lincoln Memorial (1:29)
08. Nocturne - The Flashlight - The Robot - Space Control (5:58)
09. The Elevator - Magnetic Pull - Study - Conference - Jeweler (4:32)
10. Panic (0:44)
11. The Glowing - Alone - Gort's Rage - Nikto - Captive - Terror (5:13)
12. The Prison (1:44)
13. Rebirth (1:37)
14. Departure (0:54)
15. Farewell (0:36)
16. Finale (0:37)
17. Solar Diamonds I & II [unused] (1:07)
18. Outer Space [without theremin track] (1:57)
19. The Magnetic Pull [without overlays] (1:56)
20. The Visor and the Ray [separated elements] (2:17)
21. Discrete Theremin Tracks (5:38)
22. Studio Rehearsals & Studio Outtakes (12:57)



Disk 5 - 5 Fingers (1952) & Hangover Square (1945)

5 Fingers:
01. Prelude (1:25)
02. Cicero (2:11)
03. The Embassy (2:21)
04. The Film (4:32)
05. The Old Street (1:23)
06. German Embassy - Berlin (0:34)
07. The Safe (3:09)
08. Dreams (2:35)
09. Five Weeks (0:46)
10. The Trap - The House (0:34)
11. Romance (0:46)
12. Departure (2:54)
13. Alone (1:50)
14. The Chairwoman (1:29)
15. Escape (1:26)
16. The Pursuit (2:33)
17. The Boat (0:35)
18. Rio (0:18)
19. Finale (0:53)

Hangover Square:
20. Concerto Macabre (4:35)
21. Murder and Fire (1:53)
22. The Spell (1:54)
23. The Murder (0:52)
24. The Bonfire (1:59)
25. Concerto Macabre: First Movement (4:58)
26. Concerto Macabre: Second Movement (6:21)
27. Coda (0:17)


Disk 6 - The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

01. Overture (1:27)
02. The Buzzards (3:21)
03. The Lake (0:31)
04. The Jungle (4:08)
05. The Tent (2:11)
06. Nocturne (2:35)
07. The Memory Waltz (3:05)
08. Sunrise (0:32)
09. Adagietto (2:35)
10. The Silence (0:48)
11. The Fall (1:01)
12. Sorrow (1:04)
13. The Awakening (2:12)
14. Siesta (1:12)
15. First Barcarolle (0:53)
16. Second Barcarolle (0:28)
17. Interlude #1 (0:49)
18. Interlude #2 (1:14)
19. The Letter (0:50)
20. Departure (0:39)
21. Madrid (0:20)
22. The Farewell (2:47)
23. The River (2:27)
24. The Hyena (1:26)
25. Helen (3:23)
26. Witch Doctor (2:10)
27. The Death Watch (2:43)
28. Panic (1:21)
29. Finale (0:48)
30. The Memory Waltz [alternate] (3:19)



Disk 7 - A Hatful of Rain (1957) & White Witch Doctor (1953)

A Hatful of Rain:
01. Prelude [Revised] (2:37)
02. A Hatful of Rain | The Car -The Street (1:29)
03. The Gun (1:15)
04. The Closet (0:43)
05. The Search (3:26)
06. The Sidewalk (1:54)
07. The Hold-Up (0:42)
08. The Cafeteria (1:46)
09. The Office (0:46)
10. The Playground (4:36)
11. The Window (0:53)
12. The Pawnshop (1:18)
13. Homecoming (1:28)
14. The Bridge (1:21)
15. The Return (0:59)
16. Finale (2:02)

White Witch Doctor:
17. Prelude (1:59)
18. The Necklace (1:53)
19. The Question (1:42)
20. Petticoat Dance (0:57)
21. The Village (3:09)
22. The Hut (1:36)
23. The Operation (1:15)
24. The Leopard (2:12)
25. Goodnight - The Safari (1:07)
26. Elegy (2:12)
27. The Birth (0:53)
28. Little Mama (0:44)
29. Defiance - Bakuba Boy (1:26)
30. Nocturne (4:06)
31. The Abduction (1:55)
32. The Shinback (0:54)
33. Bakuba Country (1:35)
34. The Skulls (1:00)
35. Morning (0:57)
36. The King (0:37)
37. The Past (1:42)
38. Departure (1:15)
39. The Camp (0:31)
40. Jacques (0:34)
41. The Three Doctors (0:36)
42. The Camp #2 (1:15)
43. Thirty Seconds (0:33)
44. The Fight (2:55)
45. Terror - Recovery - The Finale (1:41)
46. Prelude [original version] (2:38)
47. The Closet [alternate] (0:58)
48. Goodnight [three takes] (1:30)


Disk 8 - Beneath The 12-Mile Reef (1953)

01. Prelude (1:30)
02. The Undersea (2:33)
03. The Boat (1:09)
04. The Homecoming (1:05)
05. The Reef (1:18)
06. The Glades (1:04)
07. The Quiet Sea (0:52)
08. The Airline (1:55)
09. The Conch Boat (0:46)
10. The Harbor (0:44)
11. The Search (1:38)
12. Flirtation (2:18)
13. The Departure (0:55)
14. The Marker (4:00)
15. The Undersea Forest (4:51)
16. Elegy (2:45)
17. The Fire (1:05)
18. Sorrow (0:37)
19. The Dock (1:42)
20. Escape (2:31)
21. The Lagoon (2:36)
22. Consolation (3:11)
23. The Grave (2:07)
24. The New Boat - The Buoy (2:13)
25. Descending (0:48)
26. The Sea Garden (3:04)
27. The Octopus (3:35)
28. The Hookboat (0:26)
29. The Fight (1:30)
30. Finale (1:00)



Disk 9 - The Egyptian (1954)

01. Prelude (1:43)
02. The Ruins (0:52)
03. The Red Sea and Childhood (2:50)
04. The Nile and The Temple (1:13)
05. The Chariot Ride - Pursuit (1:51)
06. Taia (1:08)
07. Party's End (1:04)
08. Nefer Nefer Nefer (5:27)
09. The Offering (2:17)
10. The Harp Player (0:47)
11. The Bracelet and The Helmet (1:26)
12. The Rebuke (3:24)
13. The Deed (2:08)
14. The Harp and Couch (1:18)
15. The Perfection of Love (1:17)
16. Violence (2:16)
17. The House of the Dead (1:26)
18. Burial (1:27)
19. Homecoming (1:24)
20. Nefer's Farewell (2:44)
21. The Princess (0:55)
22. The True Pharaoh (1:32)
23. The Tomb (2:36)
24. The Proof - The Holy War (1:34)
25. Danse Macabre (1:33)
26. Death Potion (2:22)
27. Danse Macabre [alternate] (1:39)
28. The Nile and The Temple [alternate] (1:26)


Disk 10 - Garden of Evil (1954)

01. Prelude - Siesta (3:38)
02. The Cliffs (2:03)
03. The Chasm and The Valley (3:35)
04. Leah (0:51)
05. Stone Arrow (1:05)
06. The Hooker (2:06)
07. The Mission (1:12)
08. The Circle (2:08)
09. The Church (0:55)
10. Nocturne (2:37)
11. The Quarrel (1:07)
12. Aftermath (1:46)
13. The Wooden Cross (1:16)
14. The Mine (1:41)
15. Unused (0:29)
16. The Feather (1:47)
17. The Shrine (1:01)
18. The Smoke Signals (0:30)
19. The Revelers (0:58)
20. The Wild Party (1:09)
21. Lean's Vigil (0:48)
22. Fuller's Devotion (1:23)
23. The Departure (1:09)
24. The Indian (0:44)
25. Fuller's Plan (3:07)
26. The Apache (0:43)
27. Daly's Death (0:43)
28. Fuller's Death (1:50)
29. Night Scene (2:53)
30. The High Rocks (0:32)
31. The Chase (2:38)
32. The Cards (1:12)
33. The Ridge (1:34)
34. The Return (1:28)
35. The Sharpshooter (1:05)
36. Finale (2:35)
37. 'La Negra Noche (Me-Mue)' (sung by Rita Moreno) (2:41)
38. 'Aqui' (sung by Rita Moreno) (3:15)



Disk 11 - King Of The Khyber Rifles (1953) & Blue Denim (1959)

King Of The Khyber Rifles:
01. Prelude (1:55)
02. The Pass (1:39)
03. The Locket (0:36)
04. The Holy Man (1:56)
05. Valse Lent (2:15)
06. Dance and Air (1:06)
07. The Hammer of God (1:06)
08. The Ruins (2:03)
09. The Storm (1:32)
10. The Dunes (2:01)
11. Meditation (1:10)
12. The Sentries (1:09)
13. The Message (0:29)
14. The Letter (0:53)
15. Nocturne (3:51)
16. The Mirror (2:21)
17. The Courier (0:49)
18. The Khan's Revenge (1:43)
19. The Knife (1:11)
20. The Awakening (1:13)
21. The Trail (2:34)
22. The Night Watch (3:07)
23. The Fight (3:41)
24. The Return (Finale) (1:49)

Blue Denim:
25. Prelude - The Boy (3:24)
26. The Playroom (2:47)
27. The Girl (1:28)
28. The Letter - First Embrace (1:28)
29. Adoration (2:48)
30. Proposal - The Compact - Confession (4:24)
31. Consolation - The Question (2:47)
32. The Dress - Shame (2:16)
33. The Arrival - The Bank (1:54)
34. The Window - The Summons (0:58)
35. Farewell (1:16)
36. Fury and Grief - The Breakdown (1:09)
37. The Chase (0:50)
38. Sleep - The Decision (1:58)
39. Finale (1:19)


Disk 12 - Prince Of Players (1955) & The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

Prince Of Players:
01. Prelude (2:20)
02. The Boy (0:32)
03. King Lear 'Storm' Scene (0:42)
04. The Closet (2:04)
05. Homecoming (1:13)
06. The Tour (0:30)
07. The Dressing Room (1:27)
08. The Tempest (0:59)
09. The Camp (0:21)
10. The Dawn (2:02)
11. Edwin's Tour (0:20)
12. Mary - Exit (0:48)
13. The Warning (0:47)
14. Confession (1:16)
15. John Brown (2:00)
16. Hamlet Sequence (5:13)
17. Lullaby (0:49)
18. Interlude (0:18)
19. The Camp #2 (0:40)
20. The Package (1:37)
21. The Traitor (1:20)
22. Illness (0:39)
23. The Letter (0:55)
24. Mary's Death (1:35)
25. The Shroud (1:00)
26. The Grave (0:35)
27. Murder (0:36)
28. The Newspaper (0:42)
29. Finale (0:45)

The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit:
30. Prelude (1:55)
31. The Children's Hour (2:55)
32. The Coat (4:35)
33. The Killing - Rome (0:45)
34. Maria (2:30)
35. Maria's Room (3:02)
36. The Rain (1:19)
37. Farewell (4:59)
38. The Clock (2:33)
39. Biography (0:37)
40. Daydreams (1:06)
41. Hopkins' Promise (0:40)
42. Duo (2:45)
43. The New House (1:02)
44. Susan's Rage (0:38)
45. Honesty (0:42)
46. Tomorrow (0:29)
47. The Letter (0:41)
48. Breakdown (2:43)
49. Ordeal (1:06)
50. The Morning (0:47)
51. Finale (2:16)
52. 'I Feel Like Dancing' [Lionel Newman; source] (2:13)



Disk 13 - Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

01. Prelude (1:52)
02. The Lovers (0:55)
03. 'My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose' (2:21)
04. The Explosion (0:49)
05. The Message (0:47)
06. Duo (0:43)
07. The Ladder (0:35)
08. The Mountain - 'My Heart's in the Highlands' (2:24)
09. The Mountain Slopes (1:17)
10. The Abduction (1:37)
11. The Count and the Groom (0:26)
12. The Mountain Top - Sunrise (1:42)
13. The Rope - The Torch - The Entrance - 'March' (2:09)
14. The Count Arnes - Saint Giles (1:38)
15. The Sign - Sleep (1:39)
16. False Arrows - The Fall (2:54)
17. The Grotto - 'Twice as Tall' (3:16)
18. Lost - The Bridge - Gas Cave (2:47)
19. The Vines (2:01)
20. Salt Slides (2:20)
21. The Pool (1:11)
22. The Spear - Dead Groom - The Gun (1:51)
23. The Canyon - The Cave Glow (2:29)
24. Mushroom Forest - 'March' - The Lizard (2:43)
25. Underworld Ocean - Dimetroden's Attack (5:24)
26. The Snow - 'The Faithful Heart' (4:32)
27. Magnetic Storm - Whirlpool (1:40)
28. The Beach (1:22)
29. The Duck (1:43)
30. The Count's Death (2:02)
31. Lost City - Atlantis (3:49)
32. Giant Chameleon - The Fight (1:50)
33. The Earthquake - The Shaft (2:17)
34. Finale (0:38)
35. The Abduction [alternate] (1:53)
36. 'Twice as Tall' [short version] (2:56)


Disk 14 - Tender is the Night (1962)

01. 'Tender is the Night' (Main Title) (1:55)
02. The Beach (1:03)
03. Breakdown (1:20)
04. The Mirror (1:38)
05. Dawn (3:41)
06. The Study (1:17)
07. The Walk (4:35)
08. The Closing Door (3:58)
09. The Lake (1:14)
10. Vacation (1:02)
11. Embrace (2:30)
12. Honeymoon (2:33)
13. The New Year (2:55)
14. The Table - The Quarrel (1:12)
15. The Train - Farewell (0:55)
16. The Return - The Child (1:43)
17. The Question (1:07)
18. The Elegy (1:20)
19. The Thunder (1:16)
20. Franz's Exit - Rome (1:30)
21. The Drink - Newspaper (1:20)
22. Regrets (1:54)
23. The Surfboard (0:43)
24. The Porthole (0:57)
25. 'Tender is the Night' (Finale) (2:06)
26. 'Tender is the Night' (Main Title) [orchestra only] (2:07)
27. The New Year [alternate] (2:00)
28. 'Tender is the Night' (Main Title) [alternate] (1:54)