When Bernard Herrmann died in the early hours of Christmas Eve 1975, he left behind a body of work that would go on to transcend the medium for which it was originally written.
Have you ever watched the old classic CBS series such as Have Gun Will Travel, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Perry Mason, and Twilight Zone and ever wondered how much of Bernard Herrmann’s music you heard in various episodes?
A very unusual Herrmann event at the Barbican in London on March 17 2006. And here's a very short report.
The Music (performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra unless indicated).
Complete re-recording of Herrmann's music for the TV series.
4 disc set of original tracks from the TV series. Disc 1 is Herrmann, the other discs contain music by Jerry Goldsmith, Marius Constant, Nathan Van Cleave, Fred Steiner and others.
Battle of Neretva
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Cape Fear
Citizen Kane
Crime Classics
Currier and Ives
Echoes
Endless Night
Fahrenheit 451
Five Fingers
For the Fallen
Garden of Evil
Hangover Square
Jane Eyre
Jason and the Argonauts
Journey to the Center of the Earth
King of the Khyber Rifles
Marnie
Moby Dick
Mysterious Island
North by Northwest
Obsession
On Dangerous Ground
Prince of Players
Psycho
Sisters
Souvenirs de Voyage
Taxi Driver
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The Birds
The Bride Wore Black
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The Egyptian
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Three Worlds of Gulliver
The Trouble with Harry
The Twilight Zone
Torn Curtain
Twisted Nerve
Vertigo
White Witch Doctor
Wuthering Heights