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Citizen Kane: The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann

Charles Gerhardt (Conductor) Format: Audio CD

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NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA; THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS; JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
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1	On Dangerous Ground:The Death Hunt Bernard Herrmann
2	Citizen Kane:Prelude/Xanadu/Snow Picture - Bernard Herrmann
3	Citizen Kane:Theme&Variations (Breakfast Montage) - Bernard Herrmann
4	Citizen Kane: Aria From Salammbo Bernard Herrmann/Kiri Te Kanawa
5	Citizen Kane: Rosebud And Finale - Bernard Hermann
6	Beneath The 12-Mile Reef: The Sea/The Lagoon
7	Beneath The 12-Mile Reef: Descending
8	Beneath The 12-Mile Reef: The Octopus/Homecoming
9	Hangover Square: Concerto Macabre For Pno And Orch
10	White Witch Doctor: Talking Drums/Prelude/The Riverboad/Petticoat Dance/The Safari
11	White Witch Doctor: Tarantula/The Lion
12	White Witch Doctor: Nocturne
13	White Witch Docotor: Abduction Of The Bakuba Boy/The Skulls
14	White Witch Doctor: Lonni Bound By Ropes/Departure

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 4.94 x 0.45 inches; 3.68 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ RCA Legacy
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 10, 2007
Label ‏ : ‎ RCA Legacy
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000003EM9
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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- #3,119 in Movie Scores (CDs & Vinyl)
- #5,757 in Easy Listening (CDs & Vinyl)
- #31,379 in Classical (CDs & Vinyl)

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Richard A. Johnston

Great cd arrived in timely manner.

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2022

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Herrmann and Gerhardt and Korngold oh my - and a great remastering.

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2018

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The remasterings in the RCA Charles Gerhardt/George Korngold recordings are fantastic and are preferable to any previous CD releases. Gerhardt and Korngold are a textbook example of how film music should be recorded and sound - none of this Varese Sarabande washy concert hall distant miking BS here - this is close-miked, with incredible orchestral detail. Of course you can't beat the Herrmann music and it sounds great here. The suites are well put together and it's just fantastic any way you cut it. The Citizen Kane selections are brilliantly done but everything here is top-notch. Get it while you can.

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Jobla

Brilliant re-recordings of Bernard Herrmann scores

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2011

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The Charles Gerhardt LP series of re-recordings of classic golden age film scores was one of the most admired filmmusic undertakings of the 1970's. The albums featured phenonemenal sound quality and exquisite musical performances.

At some point (in the 1980's?), the series was released on CD. However, film music experts felt that the CD's did NOT improve the sound quality at all.

This latest CD resissue of the series, however, restores superb sound quality to these recordings. Knowledgeble collectors feel that this latest reissue restores the majesty of those long-ago vinyl treasures.

The Bernard Herrmann volume features stunning renditions of cues from CITIZEN KANE, BENEATH THE 12 MILE REEF, ON DANGEROUS GROUND, HANGOVER SQUARE, and the elusive WHITE WITCH DOCTOR. Whether you're new to the wonders of Bernard Herrmann, or simply upgrading from the previous disappointing CD release, this recording will occupy an important place in your filmmusic collection.

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Manuel Carranza Cueto

Bernard Hermann was a really genius. His music is extraordinary

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2019

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This Bernard Hermann's collection is really impresive. The orchestral work of this true musical genius is wonderful. Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic Orchestra give us a amazing performance. Simply great!

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Geoff

What can I say?

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2013

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This man wrote better film music with his left foot while asleep, than the vast majority of hacks working in the industry today. One of the few composers who dedicated himself to evoking mood rather than commenting loudly on the screen action like just another sound effect, his work has stood the test of time. The fact that he was a total jerk and an utter pain in the patoot to work with only makes him more fun!

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gary pickler

great series

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2013

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What can I say, this was a great recording in the 70's and equally great into the present. I believe a dozen in the series and all equally as good. If ever my house catches fire I would rescue these discs before my wife!

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D. Floyd

sweet surround

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2014

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Folks seem really slow in figuring out this is in SURROUND and sounds great. The new versions of this series or not. What fools these mortals be....

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Cody Robert at Spokane

IMPOSSIBLE "SALAMMBO" ARIA NAILED ON VERY DANGEROUS GROUND

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2014

Dazzlingly produced by Erich Wolfgang Korngold's son George, this is a vital, and very spectacular, entry in Gerhardt's pioneering Classic Film Scores series, dating from 1974 although still sounding as if recorded yesterday. This is state-of-the-art recordmaking that directly recalls RCA's glory years of Living Stereo and stupendous feats of analog engineering. Gerhardt's unique programme avoids Herrmann’s essential but quite separate Hitchcock scores (for these, check out Elmer Bernstein on Milan and Salonen on Sony) and the scifi/fantasy scores (where Herrmann's own Decca recordings remain authoritative, abidingly weighty and sonically thrilling). And there are several full standalone recordings of Herrmann's personal favorite, the hyperromantic maritime fantasy GHOST AND MRS. MUIR.

The smart selection rousingly commences with the Death Hunt from Nick Ray's ambiguous noir ON DANGEROUS GROUND, and this progressive concerto for whooping brass will convince skeptics that Herrmann was a master orchestrator, dauntlessly unafraid of quirky time signatures and rhythms. The CITIZEN KANE score has never sounded so ambitious, and Kiri Te Kanawa, then barely 30 and in brave fresh voice, tackles poor Susan's "impossible" SALAMMBO aria, a masterpiece of pure kitsch Herrmann surely cackled sardonically over devising. The effect, with the cruelly exposed high notes squarely hit and on pitch, is excruciating and quite electrifying, just like a "real" opera badly sung. (Whether the Kiwi diva actually hit and sustained those stratospheric highs, elided in Eileen Farrell’s famous recording, is a moot point for Anzac opera mavens; headphone listening reveals the aria was carefully spliced. In any event this entire series was engineered by the legendary ex-Decca Kenneth Wilkinson, whose particular soundboard magic artfully convinced us that Maestro Gerhardt was a great conductor and Dame Kiri a great singer.) As anticlimax the HANGOVER SQUARE concerto pastiche is the weakest, most macabre work here, more pseudoclassical frumpery—but virtuosically played by the Basque pianist Joaquin Achucarro in sumptuous, theatrical sonics.

WHITE WITCH DOCTOR (routine, for Herrmann, jungle drums exotica, with Susan Hayward coping with that man Mitchum, and killer spiders dangling over her cot) and BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF are minor scores, for very pedestrian films, but the overkill of no less than nine (9) harpists in the latter at least kept London's underemployed studio harp pluckers in their breakfast kippers for years afterward. Again, the aural effect is spectacular, with special thanks to engineer Wilkinson.

This is all great, beefy, robust stuff, given in totally committed, energetic performances by Gerhardt, an underestimated producer-turned-maestro who only recorded and never concertized, and his handpicked NPO studio band augmented by those carefully recruited harpists. This release preserves a marvelous sense of soundstage recordmaking occasion, doing full justice in modern sound to those progressive visionaries Welles, Ray and of course to testily creative Herrmann himself.

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Igor

Enjoyable CD

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2013

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Citizen Kane is a great CD with lots of lush arrangements. Overall, it is excellent, if a little on the short side - the entire CD is only about fifty minutes long. For me the best track has to be Concerto Macabre. It is just stunning with the National Philharmonic Orchestra giving it every thing they've got. Citizen Kane was another outstanding track.

My least favourite was White Witch Doctor. I just found it boring and not that good. It is a great shame that Vertigo was not included: this has to be one of the composers best scores.

Stephen Kirby

Brilliant.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 26, 2013

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Replacing old LPs that were damaged in a fire. This series is a fantastic journey into the world of Classic film music!

Fusion Head

Nice to hear some of these pieces, too bad surround only works over HDMI

Reviewed in Canada on August 1, 2021

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I'm a big Hermann fan, so it was nice to hear some of these pieces I hadn't in a while, or never before. The recordings are quite good. But this 'Dolby CD' format disk will only output in stereo from the discrete analog outputs of my Cambridge player. Apparently, the Dolby surround signal can only be sent out over the HDMI connection, and decoded by a compatible AVR amplifier.

Isaac Ruby Mendoza

Me encantó

Reviewed in Mexico on January 4, 2021

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Charles Gerhardt hace que Bernard Herrmann suene increíble

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オリジナルを、完全に超越した（と思う）映画音楽の名盤。

Reviewed in Japan on February 28, 2011

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映画音楽集＝再録音＝ばったモンという俺の偏見を完全に粉砕したのがこの作品だ！このジャンルにありがちな、イージーリスニング臭が皆無で、ホンモノ感漂う演奏が素晴らしいのは言うまでもなく、鮮明で臨場感抜群な音質とくれば、幾らヒネクレ者の俺でもこれを前にしたら平伏すしかない！そりゃそうだろう。天下のナショナルフィルと天下のRCAがタッグを組んで、キリテカナワや本職のピアニストを招聘させ、さらに(付属の英文解説書によると)バーナードハーマン自身も、このレコーディングのお目付け役としてスポット参戦してらっしゃるのだから。※選曲もハーマンさんが行っている模様である！でその選曲だが、あえてヒッチコックを外し、デッカフェイズ4盤との重複を極力避けている所にも、御大の意気込みがヒシヒシと伝わります。ケーン以外は映画未見の俺が言うのも何だが･･･音の悪いモノラルのオリジナルよりも絶対に恐らくたぶん…ココに収録されている再録音ヴァージョンの方がいい出来だと思う。※肝心の収録曲は以下の通りである。

On Dangerous Ground (1951) 【危険な場所で】#1

Citizen Kane (1941) 【市民ケーン】#2,#3,#4,#5

Beneath The Twelve Mile Reef (1953) 【十二哩の暗礁の下に】#6,#7,#8

Hangover Square (1945) 【戦慄の調べ】#9

White Witch Doctor (1953) 【蛮地の太陽】#10,#11,#12,#13,#14

攻撃的ホーンズが聴き手を挑発する【危険な場所で】が始まった瞬間この映画音楽集がトンでもない傑作であると確信♪

陰鬱なシーンがすぐさま頭に浮かぶ#2で始まり、優雅極まりない#3、キリテカナワの絶唱が感動的な#4、
そしてドラマティックに幕を閉じる#5…と全く隙のない演奏が続く【市民ケーン】。高貴だけどこか悲惨感漂う…

現在ではいかにもではあるが、劇場公開当時は衝撃的であったに違いない海洋サウンドを再現する、
ナショナルフィルのスケールの大きなウネリが素敵な【十二哩の暗礁の下に】。コチラも大団円が感動的である。

バルトークを思わせるパーカッシブなピアノ協奏曲【戦慄の調べ】。
絶望の淵から希望の光が差し込むかの如くドラマ性タップリなこの曲が一番のお気に入りです。
何と言ってもこの世の中に「協奏曲」という魅力的な音楽形態があるのを教えて頂きました。感謝してます。

電子楽器を使わずともアフロビートが可能なのを知らしめる、パーカションのリズムが心地いい【蛮地の太陽】。
これも凄い！ハーマン真骨頂な、グロテスクな両曲に挟まれたノクターンの美しさと言ったら！

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