Bernard Herrmann, Great Film Music - 1h 12m 6s

Tracks & Durations

1. Mountain top and sunrise	2:13
2. Prelude	2:05
3. The grotto	1:03
4. Salt slides	2:45
5. Atlantis	2:53
6. The giant chameleon and the fight	2:02
7. The shaft and finale	2:02
8. Overture	2:14
9. The duel with the skeleton	2:13
10. Baghdad	3:59
11. Outer space	1:58
12. Radar	2:23
13. Gort	0:42
14. The Robot	1:55
15. Space control	1:18
16. Terror	1:58
17. Farewell and finale	1:27
18. Prelude (2)	1:39
19. Fire engine	1:17
20. The bedroom	1:50
21. Flowers of fire	1:53
22. The road and finale	4:06
23. Overture (2)	2:26
24. Minuetto-Wapping	2:02
25. Hornipipe	1:19
26. Lilliputians 1 and 2	3:21
27. Victory 1 and 2	1:27
28. Escape	0:39
29. The king's march	2:00
30. Trees	2:24
31. The tightrope	3:02
32. Lovers	2:54
33. The chess game	1:25
34. Pursuit	1:48
35. Finale	1:04

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Review

Captured on this one disc are the great film scores Bernard Herrmann did for several classic science fiction films of the '50s and '60s. Herrmann did not go in for simple atmospherics and cheap orchestral tricks with his music. He knew that the music would have to conjure a mental world all its own. This is especially true in "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad". It's a tone poem Rimsky-Korsakov could have written. The best here is "The Day the Earth Stood Still" with its use of the (then) revolutionary theremin. It's a clear masterpiece, all on its own. --Paul Cook

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