Herrmann: Whitman (Reconstr. C. Husted) & Other Works Classical Naxos

Herrmann: Whitman (Reconstr. C. Husted) & Other Works

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NA 9883

Herrmann: Whitman (Reconstr. C. Husted) & Other Works

Label Catalogue Number:
8.559883

Running Time: 01:11:12

Release Date: October 2020
Originally recorded in 2019

Genre:
Classical

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Bernard Herrmann was famous for his film scores, but he was also a leading figure in music for radio, to which he brought his inimitable palette of mood and sonority. Whitman, whose subject is Walt Whitman’s collection of poems Leaves of Grass, was a 1944 radio drama, a genre now much neglected but revived in this newly restored version. Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra is not a suite or excerpts from the film but a concert work, re-ordered and re-composed, while Souvenirs de voyage is one of the most polished and seductive of all American chamber works.

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*** Good Album

Romaric Gregorin – Classica magazine (France) – October 2021

“… This is an important release of music by one of America’s most complete composers, a musical giant who deserves to be counted alongside Ives and Coltrane as one of the country’s most pioneering musicians.”

Andrew Desiderio – Fanfare – May/June 2021

“… Fascinating music all, and admirers of Herrmann will recognize his typical sonorities and imaginative ideas. Performances are superb, rich and naturally balanced. An important release!..”

Robert Benson – classicalcdreview.com – October 2020

“… The wonderful Clarinet Quintet – a real discovery on this CD – begins with a melancholic Lento, followed by a Berceuse, which clearly bears Hermann’s signature and is correspondingly restless. Mahler could have written this. The Canto amoroso has Italian flair and is very atmospheric. Along with Vertigo, Psycho is the composer’s most famous film music, and the listener will be pleased to hear a 16-minute-long piece written for strings from this music. The gripping performance by the PostClassical Ensemble mixes virtuoso and lyrical passages with captivating intensity.” *****

Remy Franck - Pizzicato.lu - 27 October 2020

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