Fahrenheit 451 [Import]

Bernard Herrmann | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 24, 1999)
• Original Release Date: November 14, 1966
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Uni
• ASIN: B0000081YO
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #955,214 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prelude [From Fahrenheit 451]

2. Fire Engine [From Fahrenheit 451]

3. The Bedroom [From Fahrenheit 451]

4. The Reading [From Fahrenheit 451]

5. The Garden [From Fahrenheit 451]

6. The Nightmare [From Fahrenheit 451]

7. Flowers of Fire [From Fahrenheit 451]

8. Flamethrower [From Fahrenheit 451]

9. Captain's Death [From Fahrenheit 451]

10. The Road [From Fahrenheit 451]

11. Main Title [The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit]

12. The Embrace [Tenders Is the Night]

13. Andante Cantabile [The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]

14. Prelude [From Anna and te King of Siam]

15. Montage [From Anna and te King of Siam]

16. Elegy [From Anna and te King of Siam]

17. Coronation [From Anna and te King of Siam]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Herrmann is outdoing the Divine, May 28, 1999

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[e-mail] (Haifa Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fahrenheit 451 (Audio CD)

This soundtrack joins the top of the top of Herrmann's masterpieces, music scores like "Vertigo" & "Marnie". Bernard Herrmann composed beautiful music to match with Truffaut's vision of "Fahrenheit 451". This soundtrack consists of various qualities; the dynamic & thrilling "Fire Engine" is followed by "The Bedroom" - one of the most beautiful and divine pieces I've ever heard. This duel of fire & fantasy ends in "The Road" - A new height for perfectness, with "one of those moments" that pierce the heart. Herrmann is simply outdoing the divine.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Herrmann's score is wonderful!, September 16, 2004

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John Dziadecki (Louisville, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fahrenheit 451 (Audio CD)

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Herrmann's score for Truffaut's fine film is brilliant. Lyrical, mysterious, propulsive. Full of pathos, beauty, hope. It is, simply, a wonderful score. On this disc, we are presented with a good represenatation of the score. More would have been better. But what is here is very well conducted by McNeely. Half the disc is the 451 score. The other half, a selection from some less frequently heard Herrmann scores. Think of this disk as a Herrmann sampler. Enjoy!

4.0 out of 5 stars It's good, but it ain't the Original, September 3, 2002

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L. S. Slaughter "silvanus" (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fahrenheit 451 (Audio CD)

Something is lost in this translation; one is advise to find the out-of-print 1974 London Phase 4 recording, THE MYSTERIOUS FILM WORLD OF B.H. as conducted by Maetsro, himself. It includes F451 in all it icy beauty as it was heard in the underrated film of 1966. It also includes 7TH VOYAGE and DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, and the fidelity is SUPERB.

But as rerecordings go, yes, this is a good one.