Bernard Herrmann - Mysterious Film World Of Bernard Herrmann (1975) [VINYL] - 24-bit/96kHz plus CD-compatible format

This album was recorded by the composer early in 1975 and has proved to be one of the more enduring parts of Bernard Herrmann's catalog.

THE Man of film composing – and TV composing as he did some early "Twilight Zone" work. He started with "Citizen Kane" and ended up with "Taxi Driver". Not bad, eh? A guiding light to Danny Elfman and others, BM was IT. So sit you down and enjoy some good stuff. Better yet, rent some of these flicks! You're kids will love it, and secretly, you will too.




Allmusic Review by Bruce Eder
"This album was recorded by the composer early in 1975 and has proved to be one of the more enduring parts of Bernard Herrmann's catalog, a steady seller on LP, and issued several times on CD, including an audiophile version from Mobile Fidelity. During the early to mid-'70s, Herrmann began re-recording many of his earlier scores at Kingsway Hall in London with the National Philharmonic Orchestra. The sound glitters, some of the brightest and richest audio of its period (attested to by the album's being part of Decca/London Phase 4 Stereo), and the performances have a dignity and intensity that makes the music – drawn from the key parts of Herrmann's scores for the Ray Harryhausen-created fantasy films The Three Worlds of Gulliver, Mysterious Island, and Jason and the Argonauts – seem even more serious and profound than it originally did. Herrmann tends to take the tempos slower than he did in the original scores, which gives him and the players a chance to open up the detail and nuances in the music, bringing out their surprising depth and complexity. What's more, the players sound like they're having the time of their lives playing it."


The tracks are taken from 3 films, "Mysterious Island", Jason And The Argonauts" and "The Three Worlds Of Gulliver". The vinyl was so pristine that I did as little work as I could live with. It sounds awesome, so turn it up, 'K?






01 - MYSTERIOUS - Prelude.flac
02 - MYSTERIOUS - The Balloon.flac
03 - MYSTERIOUS - The Giant Crab.flac
04 - MYSTERIOUS - The Giant Bee.flac
05 - MYSTERIOUS - The Giant Bird.flac
06 - JASON - Prelude.flac
07 - JASON - Talos.flac
08 - JASON - Talos' Death.flac
09 - JASON - Triton.flac
10 - Gulliver - Overture.flac
11 - Gulliver - Minuetto-Wapping.flac
12 - Hornpipe.flac
13 - Lillitputions 1 and 2.flac
14 - Victory 1 and 2.flac
15 - Escape.flac
16 - The King's March.flac
17 - Trees.flac
18 - The Tightrope.flac
19 - Lovers.flac
20 - The Chess Game.flac
21 - Pursuit.flac
22 - Finale.flac





LP > Rega P1 with Ortofon Super 30 > TC-750LC > E-Mu 0202 > Adobe Audition 3 (AA) @ 96kHz 32bit float > Manual click removal in
AA > Click Repair set @ 20 > Equalizer (from the ClickRepair guy) used to combine into mono) > AA used to split tracks, fade
in/out, and for manual click removal > RX Advanced to resample > RX Advanced to dither MBIT+ > TLH to FLAC and sector align
(16bit, pad) > MP3 Tagger to edit tags.

"16bit" = 16bit at 44.1kHz
"24bit" = 24bit at 96kHz

No music was harmed in the making of this vinyl rip.