Wow! Haven't listened to this recording in over 50 years and I certainly didn't appreciate it as much the first time around as I do now. Thanks so much for this, Glen.
The opening to this piece sounds so very much like the opening measures of Franck's symphony in D-minor. They are both sublime! Thanks for this offering, Glen. I like the tempo here. He doesn't rush it. It's getting the poetic reading it deserves. I played this with the Fort Smith (Arkansas) Symphony Orchestra very many years ago when I was still young and strong. Those days are passed now, but I still have the memories.
Never noticed it but now see the resemblance! "Les préludes" 1854, Franck "Symphony in d" 1888. Not a huge Liszt fan but this piece is really nice and Herrmann does it justice.
Bernard Hermann wrote lots of movie music, especially for some weird films featuring mythical creatures. When I worked at KLEF-FM (classical) in Houston in the 1960s and 1970s we played vinyl discs back then, and I remember one Bernard Hermann album of many of his film scores. On the front cover was a picture of a Greek sailing ship entering a primitive harbor with strange-looking creatures in the water all around it. We had an announcer at the station named Rick Veit who had a wild sense of humor. He taped a caption balloon over that picture that pointed down to that ship and he wrote on it "This doesn't look like Boston to me!" Rick had a comic genius for doing those, and our "record" library was loaded with them. Some things you never forget.
Sounds like you are talking about "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad", one of my favorite movies and film scores although not quite the description you gave. www.discogs.com/release/1003684-Bernard-Herrmann-The-7th-Voyage-Of-Sinbad-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack I have the CD reissue with different artwork. Herrmann also recorded a suite on the Phase 4 "Fantasy Film World" released on CD in fantastic sound. www.discogs.com/master/203755-Bernard-Herrmann-Conducting-The-National-Philharmonic-Orchestra-The-Fantasy-Film-World-Of-Bernard-He of which I also have the Mobile Fidelity LP pressing.
Sounds crystal clear and majestic, as usual.👏
Wow! Haven't listened to this recording in over 50 years and I certainly didn't appreciate it as much the first time around as I do now. Thanks so much for this, Glen.
Herrmann doesn't play these pieces like others do, but you stop and think about them, listen again, and they seem so right.
Thank you. I've been waiting a long time to hear this version conducted by my favorite film composer again.
My favorite film composer too although Hans Zimmer is pretty close behind.
The opening to this piece sounds so very much like the opening measures of Franck's symphony in D-minor. They are both sublime! Thanks for this offering, Glen. I like the tempo here. He doesn't rush it. It's getting the poetic reading it deserves. I played this with the Fort Smith (Arkansas) Symphony Orchestra very many years ago when I was still young and strong. Those days are passed now, but I still have the memories.
Never noticed it but now see the resemblance! "Les préludes" 1854, Franck "Symphony in d" 1888. Not a huge Liszt fan but this piece is really nice and Herrmann does it justice.
Bernard Hermann wrote lots of movie music, especially for some weird films featuring mythical creatures. When I worked at KLEF-FM (classical) in Houston in the 1960s and 1970s we played vinyl discs back then, and I remember one Bernard Hermann album of many of his film scores. On the front cover was a picture of a Greek sailing ship entering a primitive harbor with strange-looking creatures in the water all around it. We had an announcer at the station named Rick Veit who had a wild sense of humor. He taped a caption balloon over that picture that pointed down to that ship and he wrote on it "This doesn't look like Boston to me!" Rick had a comic genius for doing those, and our "record" library was loaded with them. Some things you never forget.
Sounds like you are talking about "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad", one of my favorite movies and film scores although not quite the description you gave.
www.discogs.com/release/1003684-Bernard-Herrmann-The-7th-Voyage-Of-Sinbad-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack
I have the CD reissue with different artwork.
Herrmann also recorded a suite on the Phase 4 "Fantasy Film World" released on CD in fantastic sound.
www.discogs.com/master/203755-Bernard-Herrmann-Conducting-The-National-Philharmonic-Orchestra-The-Fantasy-Film-World-Of-Bernard-He
of which I also have the Mobile Fidelity LP pressing.