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Psycho (CD)

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DISC 1 for Psycho (CD) Album By Original Soundtrack
1   Prelude
2   City, The
3   Marion
4   Marion And Sam
5   Temptation
6   Flight
7   Patrol Car
8   Car Lot, The
9   Package, The
10   Rainstorm, The
11   Hotel Room
12   Window, The
13   Parlor, The
14   Madhouse, The
15   Peephole, The
16   Bathroom, The
17   Murder, The
18   Body, The
19   Office, The
20   Curtain, The
21   Water, The
22   Car, The
23   Cleanup
24   Swamp, The
25   Search, The
26   Shadow, The
27   Phone Booth
28   Porch, The
29   Stairs, The
30   Knife, The
31   Search, The - (B)
32   First Floor, The
33   Cabin 10
34   Cabin 1
35   Hill, The
36   Bedroom, The
37   Toys, The
38   Cellar, The
39   Discovery
40   Finale
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.29) - Ranked #13 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...Great subtlety...The harpy chorus of violin shrieks that accompany Marion crane's death changed the art of scoring..."

Title Note

This reissue of PSYCHO contains the full audio program from the movie, much of which has been unreleased until now.

Original score composed by Bernard Herrmann.

Performed by The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Joel McNeely.

Bernard Herrmann was not only responsible for completely changing the face of film soundtracks, he also had his finger on the pulse of contemporary classical music. His innovative, brilliantly conceived soundtracks from the 1950s and '60s often employed structural rhythmic patterns, repetitions, and melodic theme and variation in evocative, minimal ways, and as such, have much in common with the music of Phillip Glass and Steve Reich. Like all his best work, PSYCHO stands as a unique, absorbing musical experience.

Before Herrmann, film music was often overpowering and melodramatic; it told the audience what to feel, rather than creating an atmospheric subtext to complement the images. The PSYCHO score, with a few exceptions (namely the piercing, avant violin attack of "The Murder," which cues the famed shower scene), is understated, using dynamic tension and subtle instrumental interplay to create incredible tension. The string section carries most of the weight, with violins and cellos surging and playing pizzicato; veering from lush orchestral calm ("The City") to unsettling abstract movements ("The Peephole"). In writing for Hitchcock's brilliant, deeply disturbing film of psychological horror, Herrmann created one of his finest scores: a masterpiece for a masterpiece.

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