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Sep 1, 2020 - 5:53 AM
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chriss
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HERRMANN, B.: Whitman (reconstructed by C. Husted, 2019) (Sharp, Horwitz, Nicely, PostClassical Ensemble, Gil-Ordóñez)
Bernard Herrmann was famous for his film scores, but he was also a leading figure in music for radio, to which he brought his inimitable palette of mood and sonority. Whitman, whose subject is Walt Whitman’s collection of poems Leaves of Grass, was a 1944 radio drama, a genre now much neglected but revived in this newly restored version. Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra is not a suite or excerpts from the film but a concert work, re-ordered and re-composed, while Souvenirs de voyage is one of the most polished and seductive of all American chamber works.
Herrmann, Bernard
Whitman, Walt, lyricist(s)
Husted, Christopher, arranger(s)
Whitman (reconstructed by C. Husted, 2019)
1. Introduction: I, Walt Whitman, heard that you asked for something to prove this puzzle the New World (Whitman) 00:00:45
2. Welcome: You! Whoever you are! (Whitman) 00:01:27
3. Perpetual Journey: I tramp a perpetual journey (Whitman) 00:04:10
4. Listen: Listen: when the psalm sings instead of the singer (Whitman, Stranger, Cynic) 00:02:07
5. Cosmos: A cosmos, of Manhattan, the son! (Whitman, Stranger) 00:01:15
6. Song: A simple separate person (Whitman, Cynic) 00:02:19
7. Oath: I celebrate myself, and sing myself (Whitman, Child) 00:03:05
8. Miracles: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey - work of the stars (Whitman, Child) 00:02:05
9. Battle: Of life immense in passion, pulse and power, I sing (Whitman) 00:01:22
10. War: I will acknowledge contemporary lands (Whitman, Radio Voice) 00:06:08
11. Ships: Flaunt out, O sea, your separate flags of nations! (Whitman) 00:02:08
12. Divinity: Listener out there! (Whitman) 00:01:40
13. Finale: I see not America only (Whitman) 00:02:26
Herrmann, Bernard
Souvenirs de voyage
14. I. Lento: Molto tranquillo 00:09:57
15. II. Berceuse: Andante 00:06:56
16. III. Andantino: Canto amoroso 00:07:33
Herrmann, Bernard
Mauceri, John, arranger(s)
Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra (reconstructed by J. Mauceri for string orchestra)
17. Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra (reconstructed by J. Mauceri for string orchestra) 00:15:49
Total Playing Time: 01:11:12
Composer(s):
Herrmann, Bernard
Lyricist(s):
Whitman, Walt
Arranger(s):
Husted, Christopher; Mauceri, John
Conductor(s):
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel
Ensemble(s):
PostClassical Ensemble
Artist(s):
Cappelletti-Chao, Eva; Capps, Benjamin; Chao, Philippe; Draiblate, Netanel; Horwitz, Murray; Jones, David; Nicely, Annasophia; Sharp, William
Release Date: 10/2020
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559883
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I'm a little confused about the John Mauceri reconfigured for string orchestra credit for Psycho. How is it different to the same-titled Herrmann suite, which has always been for string orchestra, whether film or concert suite.
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The entire program of the Naxos CD has already been performed in 2016 at the Herrmann Festival in Washington:
http://www.bernardherrmann.org/events/2016-bernard-herrmann-festival/
And here is a commentary about the "Psycho Narrative". So it is in fact just the same suite that had been put together and conducted by Herrmann for the 1969 Decca LP:
"But most memorably we performed Herrmann’s 1968 Psycho “Narrative for string orchestra.” Orchestras that continue to perform the “Psycho Suite” (as recorded, e.g., by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic) should shelve that collection of film cues in favor of Herrmann’s own integrated Psycho synthesis, invaluably recovered by John Mauceri in 1999. As conducted by Angel Gil-Ordonez, this 15-minute composition (featured by Simon Rattle on his opening concert of the current Berlin Philharmonic season) built ineluctably to a closing, climactic reprise the three-note motif that anchors Herrmann’s famous film score."
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/256535.Joseph_Horowitz/blog?page=12
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Sep 1, 2020 - 4:39 PM
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.
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John Mauceri explained his involvement with the Narrative for String Orchestra in these 2001 comments:
"Herrmann never performed the work live, though he did record it. In over thirty years the only orchestral material available for performance was the individual cues from which the Narrative was based. For some reason no one seemed to notice that what was being performed and recorded was not the work Herrmann had composed and recorded.
In 1999, in preparing for a Hitchcock Centennial concert in Los Angeles, the discrepancies between the published materials and the Herrmann's recording led me to suggest to John Waxman what I believed had happened: that the cues that had been photocopied for Herrmann for his use in composing the new work were then rented as if they constituted the work itself.
Contacting Mrs. Herrmann in London, we were able to get color photocopies of Herrmann's work on the old cues. By comparing those manuscripts with his recording, it was possible to reconstruct a new score, which is now published and can supplant the unedited cues that have been used all these years.
The world concert premiere of Psycho — A Narrative for String Orchestra took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on February 9, 2000 with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. The European premiere took place on January 19, 2001 with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. Both performances were under my direction."
John Mauceri
He then said, in 2013:
"The second edition is based on more than a decade of performances and a further comparision of sources. Herrmann's bowings, many of which were not used in his recording, have been adjusted to better conform with his intentions as heard on that performance."
JM
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