Feature Film by Douglas Gordon
Using Bernard Herrmann’s momentous film score, Gordon made a film concentrating solely on the music of the original and featuring James Conlon, chef d’orchestre of the Paris Opera. The result was a captivating film in which the music was played out by the dramatic gestures of the conductot’s head and hands.
This book was published in parallel to the film and reproduced selected movie stills from both Feature Film and Vertigo, along with a CD containing what is probably the most complete recording of Herrmann’s score to date.
Texts by critic Raymond Bellour and Hitchcock/Herrmann specialist Royal S. Brown introduce a critical dimension to aspects of Gordon’s work and the original music of Bernard Herrmann.
http://www.artangel.org.uk/pages/publishing/pub_gordon.htm
Note: The only recording of the complete Vertigo score