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 Posted:   Feb 10, 2024 - 11:47 AM   
 By:   lacoq   (Member)

What are your favorite/can’t live without cues from Mr. Herrmann?

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2024 - 11:56 AM   
 By:   chriscoyle   (Member)

The Spring Sea from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir . The Elmer Bernstein recording. So beautiful.

 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2024 - 12:04 PM   
 By:   BornOfAJackal   (Member)

"Thank God for the Rain" from Taxi Driver.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gHSiOLqJncw&list=PLRW80bBvVD3VpKSO5HXig4wKX2NVY2VRo&index=2&pp=iAQB8AUB

 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2024 - 12:08 PM   
 By:   Ny   (Member)

Atlantis from Journey to the Centre of the Earth, the Phase 4 recording.

 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2024 - 1:19 PM   
 By:   DavidCoscina   (Member)

The Balloon Pt 1 and 2 from Mysterious Island is pretty amazing.

 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2024 - 5:10 PM   
 By:   Adam.   (Member)

The Phorarhacos - Mysterious Island

The original recording on the Cloud Nine CD.

 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2024 - 5:31 PM   
 By:   SBD   (Member)

The Airport - North by Northwest
The Airport - Obsession
Finale - Sisters
The Captain - The Trouble with Harry
The Road - Fahrenheit 451
The Hunt - Marnie

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 10, 2024 - 10:29 PM   
 By:   On the Rooftops   (Member)


Three out of the boatload:
Mount Rushmore/Finale from NxMW
Main title from King of the Khyber Rifles
The Road/Finale from Fahrenheit 451

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2024 - 12:59 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

I'm not really a "cue person", and especially not with Herrmann where so many soundtracks consist of a myriad of short cues.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2024 - 1:51 AM   
 By:   FalkirkBairn   (Member)

Some tracks that are perhaps not mentioned so much

The Rebuke - The Egyptian
The Car - Psycho

 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2024 - 2:24 AM   
 By:   Ratatouille   (Member)



I know but I love this cue... thanks for FSM to included it on the CD !

 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2024 - 2:44 AM   
 By:   MusicMad   (Member)

I struggle to identify individual cues but one which is in the list of my favourites is:

Scène d'Amour from Vertigo

 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2024 - 2:46 AM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

I'm not really a "cue person", and especially not with Herrmann where so many soundtracks consist of a myriad of short cues.

Same here; not really a "cue person" either, especially not with Herrmann.
Many of Herrmann’s cues are quite short often segueing into each other and playing as one longer cue.

But if I have to name one: "Prelude and the Rooftops" from VERTIGO.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2024 - 4:59 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

There's tons of them from Bernard Herrmann, here’s three that immediately came to mind:

Mountain Top & Sunrise from Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. The recording from the 1974, The Fantasy Film World Of Bernard Herrmann (Herrmann conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra), the cue on the original score recording (Varese) has a bit of a glitch or edit in the middle of it, whereas this recording is amazing.

The Death Hunt from On Dangerous Ground from the Citizen Kane RCA Classic Film scores of Bernard Herrmann, what an orchestral workout this is!

River Bank from Jason & The Argonauts, from the great Intrada re-recording. Not an obvious choice, but that cue has beguiled me & has been an earworm since I first saw the film way back in 1963.

...I just thought of another one:

Prelude from Fahrenheit 451, from Bernard Herrmann Great Film Music (Herrmann conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra), only 1.46 long, but haunting & full of wonder.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2024 - 12:17 PM   
 By:   Howard L   (Member)

I'm not really a "cue person", and especially not with Herrmann where so many soundtracks consist of a myriad of short cues.

Same here; not really a "cue person" either, especially not with Herrmann.
Many of Herrmann’s cues are quite short often segueing into each other and playing as one longer cue.

But if I have to name one: "Prelude and the Rooftops" from VERTIGO.


No, you and the other maroon need to acknowledge the power in Herrmann's cues regardless of brevity or longevity. What they have done for images througout his entire career is beyond question. And that's where the emphasis belongs.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2024 - 12:18 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

No, you and the other maroon need to acknowledge the power in Herrmann's cues regardless of brevity or longevity. What they have done for images througout his entire career is beyond question.

I agree. I'm still not into cues.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 11, 2024 - 12:19 PM   
 By:   Howard L   (Member)

Thank you for elaborating. Nothing like a watermelon throwback, ya know?

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 12, 2024 - 8:37 AM   
 By:   John McMasters   (Member)

"The Home and Sorrow" from THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR -- either the Bernstein rerecording where they are combined or the Herrmann original track where they are separate.
"Scène d'amour" from VERTIGO -- the Herrmann original track.
"The Road and Finale" from FAHRENHEIT 451 -- the Herrmann rerecording on Phase 4 that combined the cues into one of the most beautiful pieces of music imaginable.

Really hard to pick as Herrmann is my favorite composer.

 
 Posted:   Feb 12, 2024 - 3:12 PM   
 By:   emusician   (Member)

The Birds

 
 Posted:   Feb 12, 2024 - 5:15 PM   
 By:   msmith   (Member)

You've probably seen this before but for those who haven't...
Brian De Palma on working with Herrmann.


 
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