On Dangerous Ground [Soundtrack]

on dangerous ground [soundtrack]

Track Listings
1. Prelude
2. Solitude
3. Violence
4. Nocturne
5. Pastorale
6. Hunt Scherzo
7. Snowstorm/The Silence
8. House
9. Blindness - Bernard Herrmann,
10. Fright
11. Faith - Bernard Herrmann,
12. Searching Heart - Bernard Herrmann, Virginia Majewski
13. Whispering - Bernard Herrmann,
14. Dawn/The Idiot/Fear/The Cabin
15. Death Hunt
16. Hunt's End
17. Grief
18. Winter Walk
19. Parting/The Return/The City/Finale - Bernard Herrmann,
20. Prelude [Alternate Take][*]
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On Dangerous Ground [Soundtrack]
Citizen Kane: The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Great music, superb recording, and a couple of added treats
  • An essential recording
 Citizen Kane: The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann

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ASIN: B000003EM9
Release Date: 1991-03-08

Tracks:

  1. On Dangerous Ground:The Death Hunt Bernard Herrmann
  2. Citizen Kane:Prelude/Xanadu/Snow Picture - Bernard Herrmann
  3. Citizen Kane:Theme&Variations (Breakfast Montage) - Bernard Herrmann
  4. Citizen Kane: Aria From Salammbo Bernard Herrmann/Kiri Te Kanawa
  5. Citizen Kane: Rosebud And Finale - Bernard Hermann
  6. Beneath The 12-Mile Reef: The Sea/The Lagoon
  7. Beneath The 12-Mile Reef: Descending
  8. Beneath The 12-Mile Reef: The Octopus/Homecoming
  9. Hangover Square: Concerto Macabre For Pno And Orch
  10. White Witch Doctor: Talking Drums/Prelude/The Riverboad/Petticoat Dance/The Safari
  11. White Witch Doctor: Tarantula/The Lion
  12. White Witch Doctor: Nocturne
  13. White Witch Docotor: Abduction Of The Bakuba Boy/The Skulls
  14. White Witch Doctor: Lonni Bound By Ropes/Departure

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great music, superb recording, and a couple of added treats.......2005-06-11

I treasured several of these Gerhardt/NPO film score releases on cassette as a film-fan teen, and this CD is no different. Gerhardt's interpretations of these selections (with Herrmann present at the sessions) are stunning, true to the original compositions, with all the passion and grandeur that they deserve without having to conform to a) screen timing, and b) the limitations of monaural optical film soundtrack methods of the time. As another reviewer pointed out, Herrmann is known for his great Hitchcock film scores, but his other work was no less marvelous. (Typical example, his score for THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, making exceptional use of piano, deep bass brass and the unusual but appropriate Theremin.)

An intriguing footnote.... For CITIZEN KANE's portrayal of Susan Alexander's disastrous opera debut, Herrmann needed a grand opera excerpt that could convey the pandemonium, confusion, and Wagnerian excess of an opera, and showcase the soprano as having a legitimate voice, but one incapable of matching a smothering orchestra arrangement. No such selection from grand opera sufficed, so Herrmann composed his own. His fictitious SALAMMBO recitative and aria astutely illustrate in abstract, subtextual musical syntax the anguish that Alexander felt participating in Kane's delusion that she would be a great opera star. In fact, the libretto is derived from Racine's "Phedre," in which the heroine begs her lover to kill her and release her from shame. For the film, the light lyric soprano Herrmann used was appropriately overwhelmed by the thunderous arrangement. For this June, 1974, recording, a truly capable, genuine opera star (a then up-and-coming pro named Kiri Te Kanawa ... yes you read that correctly, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa) was recruited. She matches the orchestra, and you can hear SALAMMBO as it was written by Herrman. It's the jewel of this recording.

Finally, that these Gerhardt/NPO recordings are available on CD with Dolby Surround encoding is NO gimmick. (This info is missing from the Product Details, but the large cover image indicates the encoding.) These analog recordings sound FABULOUS with a receiver in Dolby Surround, Pro Logic, or Pro Logic II Music decoding. (I don't recommend you use "movie" settings, as the music isn't really meant to be channeled to Left, Right, and Center.) In straight stereo, or Surround, you can hear Herrman's music as clear as if you were in the concert hall. This CD is a must-have for Herrmann fans, and home theatre aficionados.

5 out of 5 stars An essential recording.......2000-10-11

This CD is an essential addition to any film score collection. It's the best recording in the RCA "Classic Film Scores" series conducted by the late Charles Gerhardt; unlike many of the other entries in the series, this disc favors substantial, extended suites over brief snippets. Bernard Herrmann personally selected the works to be included; he was also present (and played a significant role) at the recording sessions.

Gerhardt's readings of excerpts from "Citizen Kane" are flawless and have never been surpassed; the performance of the "Salammbo" aria (by then-little-known soprano Kiri Te Kanawa) is dazzling. "Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef" and "White Witch Doctor," two forgotten Fox films from 1953, are represented by suites replete with brilliant coloristic effects, including the bizarre and disturbing sounds of the serpent in "White Witch Doctor," and the bold and evocative use of nine (!) harps to illustrate underwater scenes in "Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef." Pianist Joaquin Achucarro's performance of the intense "Concerto Macabre" from "Hangover Square" (1945) makes a convincing case for this work as an independent piece of concert music, and the brief but ferocious "Death Hunt" from the 1951 film noir "On Dangerous Ground" is a perfect curtain-raiser.

Herrmann is mainly known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, but if you only know his scores for "Hitch," you're missing an entirely different side to Herrmann. This disc provides an ideal cross-section of his wildly creative approach to more traditional Hollywood films; it's also one of the best film music anthologies ever recorded. Buy this; you won't be disappointed.
On Dangerous Ground
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Gut-gripping Music from Bernard Herrmann
 On Dangerous Ground

Manufacturer: Film Score Monthly
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006SSQB6
Release Date: 2005-01-04

Tracks:

  1. Prelude
  2. Solitude
  3. Violence
  4. Nocturne
  5. Pastorale
  6. Hunt Scherzo
  7. Snowstorm/The Silence
  8. House
  9. Blindness - Bernard Herrmann,
  10. Fright
  11. Faith - Bernard Herrmann,
  12. Searching Heart - Bernard Herrmann, Virginia Majewski
  13. Whispering - Bernard Herrmann,
  14. Dawn/The Idiot/Fear/The Cabin
  15. Death Hunt
  16. Hunt's End
  17. Grief
  18. Winter Walk
  19. Parting/The Return/The City/Finale - Bernard Herrmann,
  20. Prelude [Alternate Take][*]
  21. Outtakes [*]

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Gut-gripping Music from Bernard Herrmann.......2006-08-09

From the 1st hammer blow on steel plate, "On Dangerous Ground" is gut-gripping music. If the movie it accompanies is an interesting, but very flawed film noir, the score is completely superlative. Some ideas have a familiar ring to Herrmann afficionados--the beginning of "Pastoral" uses a sinuous winding theme in the bass instruments that is developed by the composer in the later movie "North By Northwest", and there's a spinning figure in the strings in "Snowstorm" that makes an appearance in Hitchcock's "Vertigo". "Death Hunt" is the virtuosic highlight of this CD, with the manic braying of horns in an adreneline pumping frenzy. The softer music has the melancoly yearning quality of "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", but in spite of the echos and pre-echos of other Herrmann film scores, this one is treasurable in itself. This CD was taken from acetate discs and there is some surface noice--some of it intrusive, but its so good to have this film score complete, that I'm not complaining. I find the ear adjusts after a while, and the score is so consistently rich in ideas that it's the music you hear, not the noise.

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