Various Artists - Alfred Hitchcock's Best Film Scores & Soundtrack (2026)

This compilation is an expanded edition of a release originally issued in 2020–2021 by the French independent label Wagram Music as part of its curated Collection Cinezik series, developed in partnership with the French film-music outlet Cinezik. The series launched with three thematic vinyl editions in autumn 2020, one of them devoted entirely to Alfred Hitchcock's film music; the curators openly acknowledge that the selection is shaped by legal constraints — many of the most iconic post-1960 Hitchcock scores remain unavailable for physical reissue, which sets the program's chronological boundaries. The 2026 edition continues that line, gathering original orchestral themes from across Hitchcock's career, from his early British period (Number 17, Secret Agent, Young and Innocent, Jamaica Inn) through his classic Hollywood years.
Wagram Music is a French independent label founded by Stéphan Bourdoiseau in Paris in 1998, with a broad catalog spanning electronic, hip-hop, reggae, world music, jazz, soul and French chanson, and a parallel reputation for thematic compilations and reissues. The Collection Cinezik series fits squarely within that curatorial and reissue tradition.
Substantively, the album offers an encyclopaedic cross-section of Hitchcock's collaborations with composers across every period. The British era is represented by lesser-known names — Adolph Hallis, Jack Beaver, John Greenwood, Eric Fenby, Louis Levy — alongside Arthur Benjamin's Storm Clouds Cantata, written for the assassination scene at the Royal Albert Hall in the 1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much and famously re-performed in the 1956 remake by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Herrmann himself, with the Covent Garden Opera Chorus. The Hollywood years bring Franz Waxman (Rebecca, Suspicion, The Paradine Case, Rear Window), Dimitri Tiomkin (Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, I Confess, Dial M for Murder), Miklós Rózsa (Spellbound), Roy Webb (Notorious), David Buttolph (Rope), Richard Addinsell (Under Capricorn), Leighton Lucas (Stage Fright) and Lyn Murray (To Catch a Thief). Charles Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette, arranged by Stanley Wilson, is also present — the same piece later used as the theme for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television anthology.
The compilation peaks with seven Bernard Herrmann tracks. Herrmann's partnership with Hitchcock began with The Trouble with Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), continued through The Wrong Man (1957), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959) and Psycho (1960), and ended after The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964) and Torn Curtain (1966), when a creative dispute closed the collaboration. Herrmann's unconventional orchestrations — the shrieking strings of the Psycho shower scene, the all-string ensemble that gave the film its starkly monochrome sonic equivalent, the urbane fandango of the North by Northwest prelude — placed his scores for Psycho, Vertigo and North by Northwest among the most influential film music ever written, with the Psycho "Murder" cue still ranking as one of the most-imitated tracks in the horror genre.

Tracklist:
1-1 Adolph Hallis - Main Title (From "Number 17") [2:32]
1-2 Arthur Benjamin - Storm Clouds Cantata (From "The Man Who Knew Too Much") [8:12]
1-3 Jack Beaver;Louis Levy - Main Titles (From "A Women Alone") [1:42]
1-4 John Greenwood - Main Title (From "Secret Agent") [1:51]
1-5 Louis Levy - Main Title (From "Young and Innocent") [1:09]
1-6 Eric Fenby - Main Title (From "Jamaica Inn") [1:38]
1-7 Franz Waxman - Prelude (From "Rebecca") [1:37]
1-8 Franz Waxman - Main Theme (From "Rebecca") [1:49]
1-9 Franz Waxman - Main Title (From "Suspicion") [0:54]
1-10 Dimitri Tiomkin - Main Title (From "Shadow of a Doubt") [2:05]
1-11 Benjamin Frankel - Main Title (From "Bon Voyage") [0:50]
1-12 Benjamin Frankel - Main Title (From "Aventure Malgache") [1:32]
1-13 Miklós Rózsa - Scherzo (From "Spellbound") [3:01]
1-14 Roy Webb - Main Title (From "Notorious") [1:17]
1-15 Franz Waxman - Main Title (From "The Paradine Case") [1:29]
1-16 David Buttlolph - Main Tittle (From "Rope") [2:00]
1-17 Richard Addinsell - Suite (From "Under Capricorn") [3:18]
1-18 Leighton Lucas - Opening (From "Stage Fright") [1:07]
1-19 Dimitri Tiomkin - Prologue (From "Stranger on a Train") [3:26]
1-20 Dimitri Tiomkin - Theme (From "I Confess") [2:21]
1-21 Franz Waxman - Lisa Theme (From "Rear Window") [2:47]
1-22 Dimitri Tiomkin - Dial M For Murder (From "Dial M for Murder") [3:07]
1-23 Lyn Murray - Main Title (From "To Catch a Thief") [1:31]
1-24 Charles Gounod;Stanley Wilson - Funeral March Of a Marionette (From "To Catch a Thief") [0:23]
1-25 Bernard Herrmann;Bernard Hermann - Main Theme (From "The Trouble With Harry") [2:14]
1-26 Bernard Herrmann;Bernard Hermann - Prelude (From "The Wong Man") [2:06]
1-27 Bernard Herrmann;Bernard Hermann - Prelude and Rooftop (From "Vertigo") [4:37]
1-28 Bernard Herrmann;Bernard Hermann - The Nightmare And Dawn (From "Vertigo") [3:29]
1-29 Bernard Herrmann;Bernard Hermann - Overture (From "The North by Northwest") [2:15]
1-30 Bernard Herrmann;Bernard Hermann - Conversation Piece (From "The North by Northwest") [2:57]
1-31 Bernard Herrmann;Bernard Hermann - The Murder (From "Psycho") [1:01]
1-32 Bernard Herrmann;Bernard Hermann - Finale (From "Psycho") [1:44]