Psycho: The Complete Original Motion Picture Score
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Brand: HERRMANN,BERNARDComposer: Bernard Herrmann
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1997-07-29
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Prelude
- City
- Marion
- Marion and Sam
- Temptation
- Flight
- Patrol Car
- Car Lot
- Package
- Rainstorm
- Hotel Room
- Window
- Parlor
- Madhouse
- Peephole
- Bathroom
- Murder
- Body
- Office
- Curtain
- Water
- Car
- Clean Up
- Swamp
- Search
- Shadow
- Phone Booth
- Porch
- Stairs
- Knife
- Search (B)
- First Floor
- Cabin 10
- Cabin 1
- Hill
- Bedroom
- Toys
- Cellar
- Discovery
- Finale
Music reviews of Psycho: The Complete Original Motion Picture Score
Music Review: The Violins
Rating: 4 Stars
This CD of "Psycho" is a marvelous documentation of the movie with one exception: The Shower Scene. On the disc it is labeled "The Murder" (track 17). Listen to those violins. They are casual, very slow; they are not screeching to evoke terror. In the movie those violins created the atmosphere of terror, but not on the CD.
However, listen to "The Knife" (track 30). It is the same screeching, but this time the violins are much faster, and no longer sound casual. That is close to the way it sounded in the movie. I wish track 17 were the same as track 30.
Despite all of this, though, I thoroughly enjoyed this disc.
Description of Psycho: The Complete Original Motion Picture Score
No Description Available.Genre: Soundtracks & Scores
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 29-JUL-1997
Much has been made of composer Bernard Herrmann's choice to use only razor-sharp, slashing strings for his score to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And heaven knows it works like a dream (or a nightmare), the music feeling as edgy and colorless as the noir-ish black-and-white photography. But as noticeably effective as the knife-screeching violins are in the famous shower scene (followed by those deadly blows from the basses and cellos), they work just as powerfully--though perhaps not as noticeably--all throughout the picture. Herrmann evokes dread and tension with just a few notes, or captures Janet Leigh's flighty panic in pizzicato as she hits the fateful road to the Bates Motel after impulsively stealing a large sum of money from her employer. --Jim Emerson
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