Vertigo

• Artist : Vertigo
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0030206575927
• Format : Soundtrack
• Format : Import
• Label : Varese Sarabande
• Languages : Original Language: English
• Manufacturer : Varese Sarabande
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.50 inches (Height) x 5.50 inches (Length) x 0.15 pounds (Weight) x 4.60 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Varese Sarabande
• Release Date : 1999-12-23
• Running Time : 128
• SKU : UB0000014ZW
• Studio : Varese Sarabande
• UPC : 030206575927

Vertigo represents the summit of the seven-picture, nine-year association between Alfred Hitchcock and legendary composer Bernard Herrmann. Using instrumental and harmonic colour as the main paints in his repertoire, Herrmann deploys brief melodic cells and minimalist techniques to explore the obsessed world of Scotty Ferguson (James Stewart), a retired detective who has fallen in love with a woman from the past. In doing so, Herrmann broke from the post-romantic aesthetic personified by Golden Age masters such as Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Alfred Newman. Highlights include the hypnotic, dream-like "Prelude", the churning allegro con brio of "Rooftop", the haunting love music in "Madeleine's First Appearance", a memorable habanera ("Carlotta's Portrait"), and the cathartic "Scene d'Amour", which has been compared with Wagner's "Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde. Page Cook, long-time critic for Films In Review, once wrote that Muir Mathieson's performance "remains one of the greatest pieces of film music conducting ever recorded . . . every tempo, every rhythmic nuance, every dynamic inhabits the film." In other words, this is a classic film/music amalgamation that should be in every cinema lover's collection. --Kevin Mulhall

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Prelude and Rooftop
  • 2: Scotty Trails Madeline
  • 3: Carlotta's Portrait
  • 4: The Bay
  • 5: By The Fireside
  • 6: The Streets
  • 7: The Forest
  • 8: The Beach
  • 9: The Dream
  • 10: Farewell And The Tower
  • 11: The Nightmare And Dawn
  • 12: The Past And The Girl
  • 13: The Letter
  • 14: Goodnight And The Park
  • 15: Scene D'Amour
  • 16: The Necklace, The Return And Finale

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