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Track Listings
| 1. Prelude | |||
| 2. Ship | |||
| 3. Radiogram | |||
| 4. Hotel | |||
| 5. Phone | |||
| 6. Bookstore | |||
| 7. Book | |||
| 8. Valse Lente | |||
| 9. Travel Desk | |||
| 10. Blurring | |||
| 11. Hotel Berlin | |||
| 12. Sarah | |||
| 13. Dawn | |||
| 14. Gromek | |||
| 15. Farmhouse | |||
| 16. Killing | |||
| 17. Body | |||
| 18. Street | |||
| 19. Toast | |||
| 20. Photos | |||
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North By North West, the 1959 collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Hermann all but set the pattern that the James Bond movies would soon follow on a more lavish scale. At the height of Bond mania, and with his career in decline following the disappointing Marnie (scored by Herrmann, and ironically starring the then James Bond, Sean Connery), Hitchcock returned to the spy genre with Torn Curtain (1966). The director was under pressure to produce a hit, and to incorporate "contemporary" music. Herrmann wrote his score, and was on the soundstage recording it when Hitchcock fired him. Torn Curtain was finally released with music by John Addison, who had recently won an Oscar for Tom Jones, making this album the first opportunity to hear (virtually compete) Herrmann's rejected score.
For this Cold War drama, Herrmann crafted music of a Siberian chill, extraordinarily orchestrated for an ensemble including 12 flutes, 9 trombones, 16 French horns, cellos and timpani. Herrmann offers burning brass, brooding, icy textures, all exploding into music of a terrifying ferocity for the central murder. Implacable and uncompromising, with this score, Torn Curtain might have been another Hitchcock classic. Like the composer's Fahrenheit 451 written the same year, it is a powerful portrait of humanity struggling against cold conformity, and an essential addition to any Herrmann collection. --Gary S. Dalkin
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