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This page lists upcoming recordings of Herrmann's music, and recordings released during the last year. Future release dates are approximate. Unless otherwise noted all entries are for CDs.
Recent Recordings
31 December 9999
tba - Chandos Herrmann CD
Music:tba
Conductor:Rumon Gamba
Orchestra:BBC Philharmonic
Recorded:2009
Label:Chandos
Format:CD
Source:Chandos
It will contain a premiere recording!

The sessions in Manchester took place 24th/25th March 2009
02 July 2009
You Must Remember This Too
Music:Psycho
Artists:William Kanengiser & Gregg Nestor, guitars
Recorded:2009
Producer:Gregg Nestor
Format:CD
Source:Henk Verrijt, Gregg Nestor
Gold: It's A Mad, Mad ,Mad, Mad World
Newman: All About Eve
Newman: Wuthering Heights
Newman: Down To The Sea In Ships
Korngold: My Love And I
Rozsa: Suite in the Olden Style ('M.Bovary', 'Moonfleet', 'The V.I.P's', 'Diane', 'Young Bess')
Herrmann: Psycho Suite (4:51)
Morley: Watership Down Suite
Tiomkin: Music Of the Night ('I Confess')
Tiomkin: Friendly Persuasion
Tiomkin: A President's Country Suite

buysoundtrax.stores.yahoo.net /youmurethtoo.html
01 June 2009
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Conductor:Kurt Graunke (credited to)
Orchestra:Kurt Graunke Orchestra (credited to)
Recorded:1958
Label:Prometheus
Format:CD
2CD issue

CD1 (70.58 min) contains the complete original score in mono mixed with the album stereo cues
CD2 (36.07 min) contains the original soundtrack album in stereo

www.screenarchives.com /title_detail.cfm ?ID=12466

credited to be conducted by Kurt Graunke and his orchestra in Munich
suspected to be conducted by Bernard Herrmann with a pickup orchestra in Shepperton
29 May 2009
CRIME MUSIC - Bernard Herrmann Revisited
Music:Crime Classics, Psycho
Artists:Antoine Bustros & Ensemble Ulysse
Recorded:2008
Format:CD
Source:Talking Herrmann
Montreal composer Antoine Bustros has arranged the music from Psycho into a suite for an octet of strings and winds from his Ensemble Ulysse.

Included on this CD are six scores for the 1953-54 CBS series Crime Classics

antoinebustros.com /ensemble-ulysse /crime-music-bernard-herrmann-revisited

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www.renaud-bray.com /Disques_Produit.aspx ?id=1008094
04 May 2009
Kate Royal: Midsummer Night
Music:I have dreamt from Wuthering Heights
Conductor:Edward Gardner
Orchestra:English National Opera Orchestra
Artists:Kate Royal, Thomas Allen, Andrew Staples
Label:EMI Classics
Format:CD
Miss Julie : Midsummer night (Alwyn).
The Nightingale : Nightingale aria (Stravinsky)
Troilus and Cressida : At the haunted end of the day (Walton)
Susannah : The trees on the mountains (Floyd)
Rusalka : Song to the moon (Dvorak)
Peter Grimes : Embroidery aria (Britten)
Merry Widow : Vilja (Lehar)
Vanessa : Do not utter a word (Barber)
Paul Bunyan : Tiny's song (Britten)
Monsieur Beaucaire : Philomel (Messager)
Turn of the Screw : The Tower scene (Britten)
Wuthering Heights : I have dreamt (Herrmann)
Die Tote Stadt : Marietta's Lied (Korngold)

www.royalmidsummer.com
05 January 2009
Twisted Nerve / The Bride Wore Black
Conductor:Bernard Herrmann
Recorded:1968
Label:Kritzerland
Format:CD
Source:Bruce Kimmel
Release of the Twisted Nerve LP and The Bride Wore Black 45 rpm on CD. The CD runs 28 minutes is limited to 1200 copies.

TWISTED NERVE (Mastered from British stereo LP)

1. Main Title
2. The Detective
3. The Twisted Nerve - Jazz
4. Second Meeting
5. Martin's Anger
6. Swimming
7. Finale
8. The Twisted Nerve

THE BRIDE WORE BLACK (Mastered from French mono EP)

9. Julie et l'echarpe
10. Cookie
11. Mariage de Julie
12. Arrestation de Delvaux et fuite de Julie

Orders taken from 24th December from
www.kritzerland.com

also available from
www.screenarchives.com /title_detail.cfm ?ID=10983
01 December 2008
The Golden Age of Hollywood 2
Music:Vertigo, North by Northwest, Citizen Kane
Conductor:Jose Serebrier
Orchestra:Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Label:RPO
Format:CD
Herrmann: VERTIGO Suite
Herrmann: NORTH BY NORTHWEST Overture
Steiner: THE CAINE MUTINY March
Herrmann: CITIZEN KANE Prelude & Finale
Korngold: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD The Fight, Victory & Epilogue
Bernstein: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Suite
Rozsa: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Violin Concerto (Second Movement)
Waxman: SUNSET BOULEVARD Suite
Waxman: A PLACE IN THE SUN Suite
Tiomkin: DIAL M FOR MURDER Theme
Rota: THE GODFATHER Suite

www.rpo.co.uk/cd_release.php?rid=19
28 October 2008
A Christmas Carol and A Child is Born
Recorded:1955
Label:Kritzerland
Format:CD
Source:Bruce Kimmel
www.kritzerland.com/Herrmann.html

This release is limited to 1000 copies only.

A Christmas Carol
1. Prelude/On This Darkest Day Of Winter
2. Santa Claus, Santa Claus/The Office
3. Marley (The Spirits Lament)
4. The Past/The Christmas Dance
5. What Shall I Give My Lad/Girl For Christmas?
6. A Very Merry Christmas (Oh, Days May Come)
7. And Bless Us Everyone/The Future
8. The Grave/The Bells
9. Greetings/The Doorway/Dear God Of Christmas/Finale

A Child Is Born
10. Part One: "This is a town"
11. Part Two: "The day passed, and night fell on the town"
12. Part Three: "The night deepens"
22 September 2008
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Conductor:Bernard Herrmann
Recorded:1956
Label:El Records
Format:CD
Source:Talking Herrmann
Aldous Huxley narrates his story in a 1956 dramatisation for radio.
Score by Herrmann
www.cherryred.co.uk /el /artists /bernardherrmann.htm
04 September 2008
The Kentuckian
Music:The Kentuckian, Williamsburg: Story of a Patriot
Conductor:William Stromberg
Orchestra:Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Recorded:2007
Producer:John Morgan, Anna Bonn, William Stromberg
Label:Tribute Film Classics
Format:CD
Source:John Morgan, William Stromberg
06 August 2008
The Night Digger
Conductor:Bernard Herrmann
Producer:John Steven Lasher
Label:Label X
Format:CD
Source:William D McCrum, Talking Herrmann
01 July 2008
Four American Quartets
Music:Echoes for String Quartet
Artists:Fine Arts Quartet
Recorded:2007
Label:Naxos
Format:CD
Source:Fine Arts Quartet
George Antheil: Quartet No.3
Ralph Evans: Quartet No.1
Philip Glass: Quartet No.2 ("Company")
Bernard Herrmann: Quartet ("Echoes")

www.naxos.com /catalogue /item.asp ?item_code=8.559354
21 April 2008
Orson Welles - Your Obedient Servant
Music:The Hitchhiker, The Search for Henri Lefevre, Sredni Vashtar
Conductor:Bernard Herrmann
Orchestra:CBS Orchestra
Label:El Records
Format:CD
The original Mercury Theatre radio productions written by Lucille Fletcher and Saki with scores by Herrmann.
03 March 2008
Snows of Kilimanjaro / 5 Fingers
Conductor:William Stromberg
Orchestra:Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Recorded:2000
Producer:John Morgan
Label:Naxos
Format:CD
Re-release of the Marco Polo recording
www.naxos.com /catalogue /item.asp ?item_code=8.570186

See archive for past releases.

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