Bernard Herrmann: The Snows Of Kilimanjaro, 5 Fingers

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[The Naxos Film Music Classics] series continues with two of Bernard Herrmann's finer pre-Hitchcock efforts. Both scores are from 1952 and are among the first...
[The Naxos Film Music Classics] series continues with two of Bernard Herrmann's finer pre-Hitchcock efforts. Both scores are from 1952 and are among the first projects Herrmann completed after moving from New York to Los Angeles and signing with 20th Century Fox. The films were box-office as well as artistic triumphs for Fox--and for Herrmann. As usual with Herrmann scores, the music is so intricately bound up with the visual images that it sometimes sounds less than distinctive when divorced from the film. Herrmann wisely compiled suites of a number of his scores (he recorded the Snows of Kilimanjaro Suite for Decca), making for a more cohesive and dramatically satisfying presentation of the music for the concert hall.

Of the two featured here, 5 Fingers is the more consistently interesting, highlighted by exotic scene painting (with its suggestions of Turkish folk music) and powerfully dramatic passages in the final episodes. Kilimanjaro has its own colorful moments as well, opening with a swirling, snow-swept overture in the style of Mussorgsky. Other highlights include the lovely and poignant Memory Waltz and the intense sequence for The River. William Stromberg and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra uncannily evoke classic Hollywood with their stylistically true, brilliantly played renditions of Herrmann's inimitable music. The recording quality is far superior to what any original soundtrack could offer, even if it is somewhat shallow in perspective. Film music fans, and especially Herrmann fans, will be thrilled.

--Victor Carr Jr., ClassicsToday.com Reviewing Marco Polo 8225168


Product Description:

  • Release Date: March 25, 2008


  • UPC: 747313018673


  • Catalog Number: 8570186


  • Label: Naxos


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Composer: Bernard Herrmann


  • Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra


  • Performer: Moscow So, Stromberg



Works:

  1. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Overture

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  2. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Nocturne

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  3. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Memory Waltz

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Adagietto

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  5. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: The Silence

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  6. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: The Fall

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  7. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Sorrow

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  8. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: The Awakening

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  9. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Barcarolle

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  10. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Interlude 1

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  11. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Interlude 2

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  12. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: The Letter

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  13. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: The Farewell

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  14. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: The River

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  15. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: The Hyena

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  16. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Helen

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  17. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Witch Doctor

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  18. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: The Death-watch

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  19. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Panic

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  20. The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Finale

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg


  21. 5 Fingers

    Composer: Bernard Herrmann

    Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: William T. Stromberg