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July 17, 2012

Vertigo (1958). Bernard Herrmann /full of drama/

Bernard HerrmannBernard Herrmann (Wikipedia)

Greg Sandow figures out Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O'RIley are playing music from Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo:

Clearly 20th century, I thought. A composer with a lot of cello/piano chops, someone who’s an expert at writing for those instruments, separately and together. And who’s also full of drama. And has imagination. Style a little hard to place. Post-1945, I thought. But who? Couldn’t think of anyone who sounded quite like this. I don’t claim to have exhaustive knowledge of the repertoire, but really, I thought, if someone was this good, wouldn’t I at least have some small clue?

As much as a Herrmann fan as I am, this isn't even the best track on the album. Their version of Radiohead's Pyramid Song, with its combination of cello and piano, is as moving if not more so than the original.

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March 19, 2012

Vertigo (1958). Bernard Herrmann /title sequence/

Vertigo (film score) Wikipedia)

I've seen Vertigo half-a-dozen times but didn't really remember the title sequence, let alone that it might be canonical. Art of the Title:

And just as it would be difficult to find an American unfamiliar with these works, so too would it be difficult to find a moviegoer unfamiliar with the title sequence to Vertigo. Credit Bernard Herrmann’s haunting score or Bass’ odd synthesis of sensual Kim Novak closeups and spirographic imagery, but it’s likely an alchemy of the three that makes the Vertigo titles an enduring classic.

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