Citizen Kane (Score) [Soundtrack]

Bernard Herrmann (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 16, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Laserlight
• ASIN: B00000IJV0
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #275,887 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prelude

2. Susan In Night Club (Rain Sequence)

3. Thatcher Library (Litany)/Ms. Reading & Snow Picture/Mother's Sacrifice/Charlie Meets Thatcher

4. Galop

5. Dissolve To Thatcher/Second Ms./Bernstein's Narration

6. Kane's News Office/Carter's Exit/Chronicle Scherzo

7. Berstein's Presto

8. Kane's Return/Valse Presentation

9. Sunset Narrative

10. Theme And Variations (Breakfast Montage)

11. Kane Meets Susan/Susan's Room/Mother Memory

12. The Trip To Susan's/Getty Departure/Kane Marries

13. Salaambo's Aria

14. Leland's Dismissal

15. Susan In Night Club (New Dawn Sequence)

16. Opera Montage

17. Xanadu/Jigsaw Puzzles (Perpetual Motion)/Second Xanadu

18. Kane's Picnic/Susan Leave

19. El Rancho (Second Dawn Sequence)

20. The Glass Ball

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great sounds from the Herrmann Zone!, January 20, 2002

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Lee Hartsfeld (Central Ohio, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Citizen Kane (Score) (Audio CD)

Bernard Herrmann's "Citizen Kane" score fills this CD superbly, sounding for all the world like an integrated musical work rather than a recreated soundtrack. This is a first-rate effort in every sense, though the liner notes promise musical examples in print that seem to have been lost in the reissue. (This evidently existed in an earlier, Australian, form.) In the "Kane" score, we hear cues that would pop up later in "The Twilight Zone" and Hitchcock's "Vertigo." (Instant Bernard Herrmann: Play a major seventh chord in any key. Lower it a half-step. Voila!) I formerly regarded Herrmann as a prodigiously talented hack, but I hacked off the "hack" after hearing this bona fide masterpiece of music. Astonishing in every regard, and no less so for the bargain price. Don't miss out on this one.