The Ghost And Mrs. Muir: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: Bernard HerrmannEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1997-09-23
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Prelude
- The Sea
- The Painting
- The Bedroom
- Exit
- Lucy Takes Gull Cottage
- The Ghost
- The Storm
- The Apparition
- About Ships
- Bedtime
- Poetry
- The In-Laws
- Pranks
- Lucia
- Dictation
- Daniel's Aunt
- Pastoral
- Nocturne
- London
- The Reading
- The Spring Sea
- Romance/Love
- Farewell
- The Home
- Sorrow
- The Empty Room
- The Passing Years
- Andante Cantabile
- The Late Sea
- Forever
Music reviews of The Ghost And Mrs. Muir: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Review: Ethereal and Exquisite
Rating: 5 Stars
Bernard Herrmann's score for the 1947 film "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" is one of his greatest achievements. Some devotees even consider it his absolute best, no small praise considering that Herrmann's filmography also includes such classic and venerated scores as those for "Citizen Kane", "Vertigo", "Psycho", and dozens of other notable titles. In "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", Herrmann expertly creates cues representing many diverse themes and emotions, and blends them together in a lush orchestration that perfectly enhances the nuances of the script, the direction, and the actors' performances. Suffice it to say that Herrmann's contribution to the film's success is immeasurable, a statement that is best proven by listening to the score as reproduced on this CD.
And this particular disc - the Fox Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - is indisputably the finest version ever released, if only because it is the most complete. An earlier re-recording conducted by Elmer Bernstein in 1975 is beautifully done, but it fails to include one of Herrmann's most masterful passages: "Andante Cantabile", the heartbreakingly melancholy music that plays in the background as the middle-aged Mrs. Muir and her adult daughter reminisce about their first year in Gull Cottage, and Mrs. Muir bravely (but ineffectually) claims that she has not minded the absence of romance in her life. That exquisitely composed and perfectly played piece of music - so beloved by the composer that he reportedly adapted and reused it in his later opera based on Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" - is included here on this disc, making this the version you'll want to add to your film music library.
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