Thanks!...

This cd is actually the third from a five cd box set dedicated to music from Truffaut films.

I'll settle for the Bernard Herrmann Film Scores cd by Milan which also includes a 11:27 Bride Wore Black 'medley' directed by Bernstein for the time being which is much cheaper than buying the whole five box set... not bad.

serifiot, July 1, 2006; 1:54 AM

This score marks really a missing piece in Herrmann´s discography. As far as I know, the orginal master tapes for this are lost.

moenter.melle, July 1, 2006; 5:04 PM

Lost???... What a shame! Perhaps his descendants have them.
What does the production do to the original master tapes after recording... have them for dinner?
They should store them in platinum cases, especially composers of Herrmann's caliber. Unforgivable!
We're not talking about a 30's recording here. This movie was released in the late 60's. Don't you just hate that?

serifiot, July 1, 2006; 6:11 PM

It´s a shame, but many European scores (or which were recordes there) from the 60s and 70s are lost.

El Cid, It´s Alive, The Last Run, The Haunting, The Salamander, 55 Days at Peking, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Jason and the Argonauts and many more. All lost or missing.

moenter.melle, July 1, 2006; 8:41 PM

Perhaps good and faithful DDD re-recordings by prominent orchestras and prominent conductors to the originals would become available in the future of scores never released like "The Salamander" you mentioned even though it must be an expensive undertaking to say the least and unfortunately of low interest for mainstream music listeners.

Sad and depressing... but one must stay whishfully hopefull?!

serifiot, July 1, 2006; 10:31 PM

The Suite from TBWB conducted by Elmer Bernstein as mentioned in a previous response is a high point of the Bernstein conducts Herrmann disc from Milan.

It's damn good! Who better to rerecord the music of Bernard Herrmann than Elmer Bernstein. Likewise the Jerry Goldsmith conducts Alex North discs.



victoravalentine, July 1, 2006; 11:38 PM