Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest - 1980 U.K Ambisonic Press - NM Vinyl LP

Sold Date: October 17, 2018
Start Date: September 1, 2018
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                            Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest - Original Motion Picture Score                                                          Composed by Bernard Herrmann                Performed by The London Studio Symphony Orchestra - Conducted by Laurie Johnson                                                      (Digital Film Score Series - Volume 1)                            Ambisonic UHJ 2-channel, Stereo compatible.                   Recorded at The Watford Town Hall, London, on 20th November 1979.                                                                                                        Label:             Unicorn-Kanchana ‎– DKP 9000                                                                        Format:           Vinyl, LP, Album, Ambisonic                                                                         Country:         U.K                                                                        Released:      1980                                                                        Genre:            Classical, Stage & Screen                                                                        Style:              Soundtrack, Modern, Score
                                           Tracklist;                                                                                                                 A1                              Main Title                                                                                  A2                           Abduction Of George Kaplan                                                                                                         A3                   The Elevator 
                                                        A4                        Murder At The U.N.
                                                        A5              Romance On The Train  
                                                        A6                        Crash The Cropduster  
                                                        A7                        The Auction & The Airport                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                        B1                                Duo (Love Theme Reprise)                                                                                                                                                                        B2                              Cafeteria Shooting
                                                        B3                                Stalking Vandamm's House
                                                        B4                                The Match Book
                                                        B5                                Mount Rushmore / Finale                                                                           Credits;                            Conductor [Assistant] – Jack Parnell                            Design [Sleeve Design] – Arran Studios                            Producer – Christopher Palmer, Laurie Johnson                            Recorded By – G.J. Barton                                                                                                                                  Notes;                            Music published by Big 3/United Artists                                                   Cover Illustration - hand coloured photograph of Cary Grant pursued by the                                   Cropduster [courtesy MGM]                                                   Technical Information - Sony PCM 1600 Digital Recorder [16-bit]                             Soundfield Microphone: Calrec Type CM 4050 Mk IIA                                                   Encoding - Ambisonic UHJ 2-channel, Stereo compatible 
The Digital Film Score Series, released on the British Independent Label, Unicorn-Kanchana, were dedicated to Bernard Herrmann in acknowledgement of his unique contribution to the art of music in the cinema. The liner notes on the rear cover of this release are an indepth look into the life and works of this master craftsman.
 

Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers.
An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed scores for many other films, including Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. He worked extensively in radio drama (composing for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs, including Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Have Gun – Will Travel.
Dougal's Random Fact!!  Bernard Herrmann passed away the day that he finished the score for Taxi Driver.
Herrmann's last film scores included Sisters and Obsession for Brian De Palma. His final film soundtrack, and the last work he completed before his death, was his sombre score for Taxi Driver (1976), directed by Martin Scorsese. It was De Palma who had suggested to Scorsese to use the composer. Immediately after finishing the recording of the Taxi Driver soundtrack on December 23, 1975, Herrmann viewed the rough cut of what was to be his next film assignment, Larry Cohen's God Told Me To, and then dined with Cohen. He returned to his hotel, and died from an apparent heart attack in his sleep. Scorsese and Cohen both dedicated their respective films in his memory.
North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".
North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle out microfilm that contains government secrets. This is one of several Hitchcock films that features a music score by Bernard Herrmann and an opening title sequence by graphic designer Saul Bass. This film is generally cited as the first to feature extended use of kinetic typography in its opening credits.
North by Northwest is listed among the canonical Hitchcock films of the 1950s and is often listed as being among the greatest films of all time. It was selected in 1995 for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress, as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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