Bernard Herrmann - A Concert of American Music (1949-56) [2010]

Fascinating and brilliant - Herrmann conducts American Music

Three excellent radio recordings newly transferred and remastered

This collection of radio broadcast recordings, brought together as a kind of concert-on-CD, if you like, brings together several aspects of the work of Bernard Herrmann, a composer and conductor who still commands a committed following today, some 35 years after his death.


Tracks:

IVES Symphony No. 2
ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT Violin Concerto
HERRMANN Welles Raises Kane

Personnel:

Louis Kaufman, violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Columbia Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Bernard Herrmann