Nothing but the string section... That was Herman's brilliant vision for the soundtrack. Sometimes as they say, less is more and boy, does he prove it.
rayTay Hitchcock was not going to use music in the scene, Hermann went ahead. When Hitchcock saw the completed scene he changed his mind & bumped up Hermann's name in the credits. Hermann scored The Birds & there is NO MUSIC, just electronic effects. Sadly, a few years later, Hitchcock dropped Herman's score for Torn Curtain, for something more "modern". It ended their relationship.
@@MartyMusic777 Herrmann wouldn't lower his usual fee for this movie, (everybody was working here for less than they normally made) so just using strings was the compromise to keep the music costs down. Worked perfectly. Can't imagine the shower scene without those slashing violins.
@@unowen-nh9ov Herrmann's unused score for TORN CURTAIN is available on CD (Varese Sarabande VSD-5817), played by the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Joel McNeely. I don't have a recording of the score that was used.
Herrnann was genius! How'd he manage to get such scary, emotive music from just strings???!!! Every Hitchchock film was better if Herrmann was doing the score.
Marcus Newbury Not just Hitch, anything he touched. Channel surfed an obscure film noir recently, thought it sounded familiar - sure enough, Hermann. He did sci-fi, fantasy, effects. Unique. Both de Palma & Scorcese used him later from knowing his classic earlier work. Apparently Hermann hated the 1974 Murder on the Orient Express score (which is lovely) because it was too fluffy for a Death Train!
I know what you mean. Did he set himself a challenge - strings only? “See if I can pull it off?” The whole movie with no winds or brass or percussion. And it really works, of course!
@@brucekuehn4031 I've heard it wasn't a challenge as so far as budget limitations. They were still getting North by Northwest wrapped up, and Psycho was made with a low budget. And that low budget meant they couldn't hire a brass section and had to settle with only strings. But Hermann made it work!
xaraxen A woman wrote Hitchcock saying her daughter refused to shower after seeing the film, did he have any suggestions? In his droll British delivery, he said "Send her to the dry cleaners."
The Oscars are not a good yardstick for genius, particularly with film music. Some of the greatest pieces of 20th century composition were passed over in favor of flavor of the month schlock. Jerry Goldsmith’s career in particular was a great example-he was just as creative as Herrmann but he only received one Oscar for over 150 film scores.
@johncaudill9782 I couldn't agree more with your assessment of the Oscars and in particular, Jerry Goldsmith's shameful overlooking His career is fat more varied than Williams imo.
I remember watching this movie as a kid me and my brothers were laying on our carpet, my Father waited for the shower scene, just as the curtain was drawn and the knife appeared he would toss the t.v. guide at us, we screamed and jumped out of our skin, then he would innocently say "What? What's the matter". I don't think I slept a wink that night. 😃
yep. it just is. regardless of the film. it stands on its own as a piece of cinema film score history. A towering achievement. you cannot think of the film without the music, it is integral to how you experience the film.
Fun fact: Hitchcock was apparently, so dissastified with the finished film of Psycho that he considered cutting it down to an hour and airing it on his tv show. Bernard Hermann convinced him otherwise and this score has, of course become iconic.
Psycho, one of Hitchcock's most remarkable films with one of the most important music in American cinema and perhaps worldwide, recognizable among a thousand others, this music in itself is a true masterpiece
The most tense and disturbing 8 minutes and 40 seconds of my life!! Great masterpiece. Classical music; the basis of all musical styles, the foundations, the sustenance.
Herrmann used 9 horns in one of his other scores: 3 open, 3 muted, 3 stopped. When they finished the recording, all the horn players rushed into the control room to hear the playback. Nobody had ever written anything like that for them before.
@@justinruhl8561 - Torn Curtain: 12 flutes (alternating with piccolos), 16 horns, nine trombones, two tubas, two sets of tympani, eight cellos and eight basses. I underestimated the number of horns!!
I consider Psycho to be not only the best horror movie of all time, but the greatest movie of all time. Part of what makes a movie great is the soundtrack. This is by far one of the best. It tells a story and it really captures what it's trying to convey.
Norman: "You know what I think? I think that...we're all in our private traps. Clamped in them. And none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw, but - only at the air. Only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch." Marion: "Sometimes we deliberately step into those traps."
Hearing the Psycho Suite this way, in this setting, there's so much of it that reminds me of both Stravinsky and Bartok's music. Bernard Hermann brought a very modern, sophisticated type of sound to motion pictures, Hitchcock's films wouldn't be nearly as great if not for his glorious music.
Kudos To The Band!! I would have geeked SO HARD enjoying this in person! OMFG! Not only do I play this movie every October but I listen to the soundtrack almost on the daily!
Herrmann knew how to mike music for soundtracks, too, and I think that's one reason the music sounds so ferocious on the soundtrack. It will never sound the same way in concert, even if the conductor gets the tempo right!
That makes no sense. Who do you think recorded the music for the soundtrack? An orchestra with a conductor. If anything this sounds much better in this hall than in a studio room. What you might be experiencing is what I call the old-sound syndrome, because when this was first recorded for the film, it sounded just the same in the hall of the 60's.. It sounded just the same when Elfman re-did it. It sounds just as good today.
Nope, back in 1960, music recorded in concert halls sounded different from music recorded in movie studios. The difference in analog recording was very apparent. Of course the movie studios had orchestras and conductors. But the soundtrack didn't pick up reverb, as recordings in concert halls did. And Herrmann did know how to mike the orchestra so that you would hear what you can't hear in a concert hall with a full orchestra going. Sorry this makes no sense to you, but I've talked to many people who understand it.
I understand what you are trying to say and it still makes no sense to me why would you think that...I record music all the time - we use a lot of analog equipment but not for the purposes you think. Live music sounds the same to the ear no matter the era. Danny Elfman recorded it digitally - It sounds amazing. If Herrmann could, he would record it digitally, too, and enjoy it very much. He did not write music to sound good for analog recording. He wrote it to sound good to the ear, to be playable by the orchestra, and most importantly - to fit the moving picture. You'd think this is the reason why he chose to use "con sordino" and stick to a chamber ensemble, but no. It was just a trend back then for horrors and thrillers.
I think we have to agree to disagree. You may not hear a difference in music you hear live and a recording of the same music. I do hear a difference in recordings, depending on where and how the music was recorded. It makes no sense to you that I hear this difference, and it makes no sense to me that you don't.
it still blows my mind that this brilliant score did not even receive the Oscar nomination. It should have WON; it is the most influential film score of all time.
Suddenly I've realized that I take so much for granted ! I'm oblivious to the depth of so may remarkable accomplishments,,,so many ! I saw "Psycho" when I was six years old. It's clear to me now why the film had an impact! The sound score was a good part of the overall experience ! Yet how many viewers were aware that the music lead the film? Bernard Herman ! BRAVO!
Just watched PSYCHO again yesterday, and the music was, as I always hear it on the soundtrack, FEROCIOUS! I mean from the credits onward it's IN YOUR FACE! Would like to know how the music and dialogue were balanced because I could always understand the dialogue!
Psycho is my new Halloween movie and I’ve only watched it twice in the last two weeks lol. I first tried it two weeks ago and I liked it. The music was suspenseful and scary in the perfect parts
Bernard Herrmann was simply the most complete, most evocative Composer I’ve ever heard, and this performance is *AMAZING*. Bravo to the Musicians and Conductor for putting 100% into this (just one tiny, yet key niggle: I thought the opening tempo to be slightly slow, but it did eventually improve. Whether this was due to the Conductor’s lead or the players’, I cannot say.) Now, if a great Orchestra could give Herrmann’s score to “It’s Alive” the same treatment! Great music is meant to change your life as a listener or Composer. Larry Cohen’s original “It’s Alive” contains intense imagery, acting, and most of all, Music, and it that impact on me. Sitting (well, I was SIX years old, VERY frightened, and spent 98% of the time facing to the rear, through TWO showings (our world used to be SO much better!), but I couldn’t escape the unreal sound effects OR the incredibly effective Music. It took me ten years before I could sit through the film again, and was able to also purchase a Starlog (?) Recording LP of “It Lives Again” (basically “It’s Alive” with more horror and less story, but did retain much of Herrmann’s score, which was well-conducted (and added to) by Laurie Johnson. Again, wonderful work by the performers and Conductor, dynamics really maximized here. Just excellent.
amo esta melodía es maravilloso ver como el ser humano es capaz de hacer hermosas melodías por si mismo y como puede entenderlo, crédito para todos ellos y para bernard hermman by :mónica Baltazar :):):)
@@JuanDomingoBoussac I cannot find the quote at this moment. For now here is a sample of Herrmann himself conducting the opening credits ("Prelude", marked "Allegro (molto agitato)" in the score). First 45 seconds or so is the cellos part of Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" because George Martin who composed that cello backing at McCartney's request said he used Herrmann's score for "Psycho" as an example of expressive scoring for strings: drive.google.com/file/d/0B2N1X7SgQnLRSEg4bGpwSFJ5Vjg/view They do sound quite similar in terms of texture :-)
It's called downbowing (opposite of upbowing) and it is done for strong, decisively separated tones. It may look to you like the violins are deliberately "imitating" the knife stabbing motion, but They're not.
The all string orchestral arrangement of the Psycho Suite as presented here is a real gem! Seeing all those gorgeous and talented musicians re-creating one of the most influence scores of all time, is most enlightening. The shower scene, with its screeching violins, occurs at 5:55 - was pulled off with what looks like relative ease, even though it is a complex tune.
Well Psycho and the shower scene are one of the most frightening scenes in cinema history and even close to 50 I am glad when they show it on TV when this scene is over.
Beleive it or not it was a low budget movie. Herrmann was asked to keep the costs down and he did it by only using the string section. This twinned with his incredible musical ability gave us this wonderful gem.
If you watch and listen very closely you'll hear something unique. Going back to the original score, Hermman instructed the orchestra to eschew vibrato. As you closely, you'll see the BBC players using it in moments but it's very subtle, almost imperceptible to the ear, which makes me think it was a conscious choice, just as they slowed the tempo in some sections, and merged other aspects of the score. A purist may find this to be annoying, but I didn't find it to be.
Yes I notice that vibrato too, that I heard Herrmann didn't want. But at 2:14 they are too fast, being used to the Herrmann conducted version. What is so amazing about this score is, I consider it one of greatest film scores ever, but what is it for? A joke of a movie by Hitchcock who wanted to see if he could out-do those schlocky William Castle/Roger Corman films that were then in vogue. In other words, the score is too good for the film.
Proms recitals are often abridged versions. They probably assume the crowd are pissed and want to rattle through the set before last orders. I recently had cause to write about Herrmann's 'Cape Fear' score, stretched for the correct musical annotation for the impression I was trying to relate and, believe it or not, ended up writing something gibberish. "Staccato tension," or something like that - when I was probably thumb-tied for 'vibrato'. I reacquainted with the film a day or two later to try and distill my impression down to a cogent thought. The strings weren't played vibrato at all but deliberately slowly so as to give the impression of vibrato from the wooden body. A genius effect for tension. In case anyone's curious, you'll only find it in J. Lee Thompson's original. The scene where Bob Mitchum takes a girl back to his room after picking her up in a bar. The equivalent scene in Scorsese's version (I'll have to reacquaint with that one soon) is just sassy small talk and overt violence.
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I love that shitty little smile the conductor has when the Shower Scene music happens. You can tell he's living for it.
it's the moment where Maestro Lockhart goes PSYCHO. He understands the message. This performance is extraordinary.
I only see pain on his face. That guy must have his ears bleeding with that screeching sound.
wrr, smilex no matter what
@@zes3813 saddic face
bad
I watch Psycho once every 1-2 years and this music is 50% of why I am addicted to the movie
Same here - well, I possibly watch it twice a year. Psycho Prelude is always on my music playlist.
I watch it every few months
I watch it more than that, brilliant!!!!😊
Bet the other 50% is for Anthony Perkins;)
@@Rivers_TG Omg yes I miss him so much, he should be with us right now :(
Nothing but the string section... That was Herman's brilliant vision for the soundtrack. Sometimes as they say, less is more and boy, does he prove it.
rayTay Hitchcock was not going to use music in the scene, Hermann went ahead. When Hitchcock saw the completed scene he changed his mind & bumped up Hermann's name in the credits. Hermann scored The Birds & there is NO MUSIC, just electronic effects. Sadly, a few years later, Hitchcock dropped Herman's score for Torn Curtain, for something more "modern". It ended their relationship.
String Orchestra to me is like the music version of a black and white film. Herrmann wrote this piece so perfectly to fit with the movie.
Actually, they couldn't afford a full orchestra, so Herrmann persuaded Hitchcock for at least the strings.
@@MartyMusic777 Herrmann wouldn't lower his usual fee for this movie, (everybody was working here for less than they normally made) so just using strings was the compromise to keep the music costs down. Worked perfectly. Can't imagine the shower scene without those slashing violins.
@@unowen-nh9ov Herrmann's unused score for TORN CURTAIN is available on CD (Varese Sarabande VSD-5817), played by the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Joel McNeely. I don't have a recording of the score that was used.
Herrnann was genius! How'd he manage to get such scary, emotive music from just strings???!!! Every Hitchchock film was better if Herrmann was doing the score.
Marcus Newbury Not just Hitch, anything he touched. Channel surfed an obscure film noir recently, thought it sounded familiar - sure enough, Hermann. He did sci-fi, fantasy, effects. Unique. Both de Palma & Scorcese used him later from knowing his classic earlier work. Apparently Hermann hated the 1974 Murder on the Orient Express score (which is lovely) because it was too fluffy for a Death Train!
I know what you mean. Did he set himself a challenge - strings only? “See if I can pull it off?” The whole movie with no winds or brass or percussion. And it really works, of course!
@@brucekuehn4031 I've heard it wasn't a challenge as so far as budget limitations. They were still getting North by Northwest wrapped up, and Psycho was made with a low budget. And that low budget meant they couldn't hire a brass section and had to settle with only strings. But Hermann made it work!
@@unowen-nh9ov even TAXI DRIVER's score was phenomenal
That’s the power of stringed instruments! I have been playing cello for six years and I’m determined to learn this piece :)
5:52 - Kill part/scene in the shower! ;-)
Those strings are so high!
Can't even imagine the effect it had on people back in the day
Parece que alguien va a morir en esa escena, en el teatro, imagino un músico cayendo con un cuchillo clavado en la espalda... Ohhhh Hitchcock...!!!
I was playing this in the background and when I got to that part I was like :0
Thanks !
00:34 "Ya'll people had enough? Gimme some mo."
--Busta Rhymes.
When I get money CHA-CHING
3:09 as well
I would hate to hear this while walking through the woods!
Certainly not while taking a shower.
Justin Kovach I prefer an abondaned hotel in the rain
xaraxen true
Lol me too
xaraxen A woman wrote Hitchcock saying her daughter refused to shower after seeing the film, did he have any suggestions? In his droll British delivery, he said "Send her to the dry cleaners."
I will always question why this series of masterpieces was never nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Score.
The Oscars are not a good yardstick for genius, particularly with film music. Some of the greatest pieces of 20th century composition were passed over in favor of flavor of the month schlock. Jerry Goldsmith’s career in particular was a great example-he was just as creative as Herrmann but he only received one Oscar for over 150 film scores.
IT WASNT!?
Because the Oscars are a load of crap. Accept that principle, and then all becomes clear....
Listen to shostakovich 8 string quartet, second part. It was created before this one. Both are really good tho.
@johncaudill9782 I couldn't agree more with your assessment of the Oscars and in particular, Jerry Goldsmith's shameful overlooking His career is fat more varied than Williams imo.
The screaching violins or violas are intense man
I remember watching this movie as a kid me and my brothers were laying on our carpet, my Father waited for the shower scene, just as the curtain was drawn and the knife appeared he would toss the t.v. guide at us, we screamed and jumped out of our skin, then he would innocently say "What? What's the matter". I don't think I slept a wink that night. 😃
One of the greatest film scores ever written...Bernard Herrmann is a genius .
yep. it just is. regardless of the film. it stands on its own as a piece of cinema film score history. A towering achievement. you cannot think of the film without the music, it is integral to how you experience the film.
This song and the theme from Jaws are the most horrifying scores ever written.
Fun fact: Hitchcock was apparently, so dissastified with the finished film of Psycho that he considered cutting it down to an hour and airing it on his tv show. Bernard Hermann convinced him otherwise and this score has, of course become iconic.
Also think of this music when I'm driving through a rainstorm with my windshield wipers on high.
At night and being blinded by the glaring lights.
Imagine the dark places you'd have to go to write this kind of music.
HAHAHHAHAH
Mwahahahahahaha Bwahahahahaha Ah-hahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa.......
or just meet Hitchcock for a few minutes...
The mind is the darkest place one can go
Well I'd imagine a fruit cellar would be one of them
This is bloody brilliant!
That sounded like Stravinsky @ 5:54
You mean 'chocolate syrup' brilliant. ( :D
rellay bloody :)))
Pun intended?
alan1963 Yes indeed.. I thought some ghost screaming 😂
Never knew violins could make such an unsettling sound.
This is fascinating to watch for some reason.
SpocketteINFJ Love the username, I'm an INFJ as well!
Go watch the North by Northwest concert..its even better
This gave me goosebumps - absolutely fantastic.
bet the musicians loved playing this ,, brilliant
not so sure. I wonder how/why they didn't rip off all the hairs on their bows during the performance. Boggles the mind.
and so, we just keep on 'bowing.'
I’m gonna play this in my orchestra, and let me tell you…
It’s awesome, but SO FRICKING TIRING TO PLAY
Psycho, one of Hitchcock's most remarkable films with one of the most important music in American cinema and perhaps worldwide, recognizable among a thousand others, this music in itself is a true masterpiece
There was no one like Bernard Herrmam. Brilliant.
This is the best live recording of this, so far, on TH-cam
The most tense and disturbing 8 minutes and 40 seconds of my life!! Great masterpiece. Classical music; the basis of all musical styles, the foundations, the sustenance.
Herrmann used 9 horns in one of his other scores: 3 open, 3 muted, 3 stopped. When they finished the recording, all the horn players rushed into the control room to hear the playback. Nobody had ever written anything like that for them before.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth?
Cape Fear?
@@justinruhl8561 - Torn Curtain: 12 flutes (alternating with piccolos), 16 horns, nine trombones, two tubas, two sets of tympani, eight cellos and eight basses. I underestimated the number of horns!!
Jerry Goldsmith would later copy Benny's style in many scores
ravishingly beautiful and sends chills down my spine, damn
A boy's best friend it's his mother.
i think you mean his mother
Agreed!!
"Am I acting as if there's something wrong?" - "Frankly, yes!"
Jose A Madrigal Segura A friend is an enemy you know.
Sounds kinda Freudian...
Alfred Hitchcock's Masterpiece.
Agree and one of BH's also.
Just hearing thus gives me goosebumps
I consider Psycho to be not only the best horror movie of all time, but the greatest movie of all time. Part of what makes a movie great is the soundtrack. This is by far one of the best. It tells a story and it really captures what it's trying to convey.
I love the music so much, sometimes I wished, Ilved in the 50s or 60s. But then realize, I am glad, I live now so I can enjoy it by TH-cam.
“Why she wouldn’t even harm a fly”.
Norman: "You know what I think? I think that...we're all in our private traps. Clamped in them. And none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw, but - only at the air. Only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch."
Marion: "Sometimes we deliberately step into those traps."
Hearing the Psycho Suite this way, in this setting, there's so much of it that reminds me of both Stravinsky and Bartok's music. Bernard Hermann brought a very modern, sophisticated type of sound to motion pictures, Hitchcock's films wouldn't be nearly as great if not for his glorious music.
Kudos To The Band!! I would have geeked SO HARD enjoying this in person! OMFG! Not only do I play this movie every October but I listen to the soundtrack almost on the daily!
Herrmann knew how to mike music for soundtracks, too, and I think that's one reason the music sounds so ferocious on the soundtrack. It will never sound the same way in concert, even if the conductor gets the tempo right!
That makes no sense. Who do you think recorded the music for the soundtrack? An orchestra with a conductor. If anything this sounds much better in this hall than in a studio room. What you might be experiencing is what I call the old-sound syndrome, because when this was first recorded for the film, it sounded just the same in the hall of the 60's.. It sounded just the same when Elfman re-did it. It sounds just as good today.
Nope, back in 1960, music recorded in concert halls sounded different from music recorded in movie studios. The difference in analog recording was very apparent. Of course the movie studios had orchestras and conductors. But the soundtrack didn't pick up reverb, as recordings in concert halls did. And Herrmann did know how to mike the orchestra so that you would hear what you can't hear in a concert hall with a full orchestra going. Sorry this makes no sense to you, but I've talked to many people who understand it.
I understand what you are trying to say and it still makes no sense to me why would you think that...I record music all the time - we use a lot of analog equipment but not for the purposes you think. Live music sounds the same to the ear no matter the era. Danny Elfman recorded it digitally - It sounds amazing. If Herrmann could, he would record it digitally, too, and enjoy it very much. He did not write music to sound good for analog recording. He wrote it to sound good to the ear, to be playable by the orchestra, and most importantly - to fit the moving picture. You'd think this is the reason why he chose to use "con sordino" and stick to a chamber ensemble, but no. It was just a trend back then for horrors and thrillers.
I think we have to agree to disagree. You may not hear a difference in music you hear live and a recording of the same music. I do hear a difference in recordings, depending on where and how the music was recorded. It makes no sense to you that I hear this difference, and it makes no sense to me that you don't.
The acoustics are definitely different between a recording studio and a large concert hall. Also the musicians are closer miked in the studio.
it still blows my mind that this brilliant score did not even receive the Oscar nomination. It should have WON; it is the most influential film score of all time.
The hallmark of Herrmann -- the empty percussion seats in the orchestra. We'll never have a composer of his caliber again.
Suddenly I've realized that I take so much for granted ! I'm oblivious to the depth of so may remarkable accomplishments,,,so many ! I saw "Psycho" when I was six years old. It's clear to me now why the film had an impact! The sound score was a good part of the overall experience ! Yet how many viewers were aware that the music lead the film? Bernard Herman ! BRAVO!
The mother of all horror flicks, absolutely legendary. And a musuc which fits perfectly
That ending was bloody terrifying
I love when they played this tune during my prom night.
Just watched PSYCHO again yesterday, and the music was, as I always hear it on the soundtrack, FEROCIOUS! I mean from the credits onward it's IN YOUR FACE! Would like to know how the music and dialogue were balanced because I could always understand the dialogue!
I absolutely love the part of the symphony showing the conductors face as the knife pierces through Janet Leigh/Marion Crane's torso!!! 😳😱
Sounds just like watching the Movie itself this orchestra Kudos!!!!!
This is terrific! And well done. Thanks for sharing! This sounds right on the money to me!!! Don't change!
Watched the movie for the first time yesterday ..hooked ever since .
I saw this movie when I was young and it, and the score, made me stop taking showers at night!
The counterpoint on this piece is amazing, Bernard Herrmann was amazing with counterpoint and melody
Herrmann was an absolute genius, an integral and powerful complementary force to Hitch.
Music producer: "How many strings do you need?
Bernard Hermann: "Yes"
Psycho is my new Halloween movie and I’ve only watched it twice in the last two weeks lol. I first tried it two weeks ago and I liked it. The music was suspenseful and scary in the perfect parts
I love orchestra! This is awesome!!!!!
Absolutely Amazing!! Killed It!!
FITASTIC Pun?
So to speak...mwahahahahaha!!!
Bela composição! Grande apresentação!
Bernard Herrmann was an absolute genius. John Williams learned from the best!
The greatest horror-film score of all time!
Bernard Herrmann was simply the most complete, most evocative Composer I’ve ever heard, and this performance is *AMAZING*.
Bravo to the Musicians and Conductor for putting 100% into this (just one tiny, yet key niggle: I thought the opening tempo to be slightly slow, but it did eventually improve. Whether this was due to the Conductor’s lead or the players’, I cannot say.)
Now, if a great Orchestra could give Herrmann’s score to “It’s Alive” the same treatment! Great music is meant to change your life as a listener or Composer. Larry Cohen’s original “It’s Alive” contains intense imagery, acting, and most of all, Music, and it that impact on me.
Sitting (well, I was SIX years old, VERY frightened, and spent 98% of the time facing to the rear, through TWO showings (our world used to be SO much better!), but I couldn’t escape the unreal sound effects OR the incredibly effective Music.
It took me ten years before I could sit through the film again, and was able to also purchase a Starlog (?) Recording LP of “It Lives Again” (basically “It’s Alive” with more horror and less story, but did retain much of Herrmann’s score, which was well-conducted (and added to) by Laurie Johnson.
Again, wonderful work by the performers and Conductor, dynamics really maximized here. Just excellent.
This is wonderful to play - I was reading violin 1 today playing along with the full score soundtrack today - so satisfying and sublime!
One of the most cinematically important movies ever made and Hermann was a genius!!!!
The orchestra is as good as the camera realizator. Very very well done.
Yew guyz are so incredibly talented and beautiful,,,what a treat thank yew
Bernard Herrmann was an absolute GENIUS. Danny Elfman learned from the best as well as a true inspiration.
amo esta melodía es maravilloso ver como el ser humano es capaz de hacer hermosas melodías por si mismo y como puede entenderlo, crédito para todos ellos y para bernard hermman by :mónica Baltazar :):):)
"We're all in our private traps and can never get out". How true!!!
Nothing but pure brilliance!
0:33 is my favourite part of this
same
Gimme some more
FAR OUT THIS IS GOOD. at the start I thought it sounded rather slow but WOW
nickieliscp it is slow. I saw these chamber people playing it and i thought it was amazing because they played it much faster than this
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To get close to the original tempo, change the playback video speed to 1.25
Actually in the film they play it too fast (Herrmann hated it) in order to fit the duration of the opening credits, etc.
@@JanPBtest where hermann said that?
@@JuanDomingoBoussac I cannot find the quote at this moment. For now here is a sample of Herrmann himself conducting the opening credits ("Prelude", marked "Allegro (molto agitato)" in the score). First 45 seconds or so is the cellos part of Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" because George Martin who composed that cello backing at McCartney's request said he used Herrmann's score for "Psycho" as an example of expressive scoring for strings: drive.google.com/file/d/0B2N1X7SgQnLRSEg4bGpwSFJ5Vjg/view They do sound quite similar in terms of texture :-)
Most film scores whrn played live have their tempo slowed down so it's more enjoyable, John Williams often does this with his own works.
Adoro este maestro... orquestra maravilhosa! Great!
It was amazing to watch this modern classical being performed! I have chills!
@5:52 when the shower scene happens, all the violinists’ arm movements imitates that of the stabbing ... brilliant!
It's called downbowing (opposite of upbowing) and it is done for strong, decisively separated tones. It may look to you like the violins are deliberately "imitating" the knife stabbing motion, but They're not.
But you don’t think it was intentional? I mean that’s the brilliance of it!
Tempo a little slow but still seriously creepy. The "murder" track makes an excellent ringtone !
So great hahaha, sorry have to laugh about myself how the scenes appears into my mind when I hear this. Perfect played!
The all string orchestral arrangement of the Psycho Suite as presented here is a real gem! Seeing all those gorgeous and talented musicians re-creating one of the most influence scores of all time, is most enlightening. The shower scene, with its screeching violins, occurs at 5:55 - was pulled off with what looks like relative ease, even though it is a complex tune.
Nothing like this music will ever be composed again. Unique
Uma das trilhas mais marcante de toda a história do cinema, sem palavras para dizer o quanto agrada aos ouvidos
Love it. And with regard to the previous comment, ive never heard a version played at the speed of the soundtrack
even on the re-record by Herrmann on Phase 4 Records he did it slower....
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This composure is pure genius. All strings.
I played this song on October 4th for my orchestra concert we weren't even close to this tempo
Hallo, I'm looking for parts...we're i can try it ?
The music 🎶 s so powerful! Of course there are Beautiful and great harmonies Tiins! Thank you for sharing this Ron!
Absolutely stunning
great music, oh mother BLOOD BLOOD.
'I declare! I don't, that's how I get to keep it.'
Well Psycho and the shower scene are one of the most frightening scenes in cinema history and even close to 50 I am glad when they show it on TV when this scene is over.
5:49 thank you so much for that cough from within the audience.. as if it wouldn't spoil the acoustics from the best part about to drop! lol
Playing this theme for marching band
Beleive it or not it was a low budget movie. Herrmann was asked to keep the costs down and he did it by only using the string section. This twinned with his incredible musical ability gave us this wonderful gem.
This is so good, I can hardly stand it.
I can't even imagine being in the same room where they're rehearsing. My ears hurt from only watching this once 😭
Hermann's magnificent score adds a lot to what is a remarkable -- if unpleasant -- film. Certainly one of Hitch's best.
one of the best ever....
My favourite film score of all time!
If you watch and listen very closely you'll hear something unique. Going back to the original score, Hermman instructed the orchestra to eschew vibrato. As you closely, you'll see the BBC players using it in moments but it's very subtle, almost imperceptible to the ear, which makes me think it was a conscious choice, just as they slowed the tempo in some sections, and merged other aspects of the score.
A purist may find this to be annoying, but I didn't find it to be.
Yes I notice that vibrato too, that I heard Herrmann didn't want. But at 2:14 they are too fast, being used to the Herrmann conducted version. What is so amazing about this score is, I consider it one of greatest film scores ever, but what is it for? A joke of a movie by Hitchcock who wanted to see if he could out-do those schlocky William Castle/Roger Corman films that were then in vogue. In other words, the score is too good for the film.
Proms recitals are often abridged versions. They probably assume the crowd are pissed and want to rattle through the set before last orders.
I recently had cause to write about Herrmann's 'Cape Fear' score, stretched for the correct musical annotation for the impression I was trying to relate and, believe it or not, ended up writing something gibberish. "Staccato tension," or something like that - when I was probably thumb-tied for 'vibrato'.
I reacquainted with the film a day or two later to try and distill my impression down to a cogent thought.
The strings weren't played vibrato at all but deliberately slowly so as to give the impression of vibrato from the wooden body. A genius effect for tension.
In case anyone's curious, you'll only find it in J. Lee Thompson's original. The scene where Bob Mitchum takes a girl back to his room after picking her up in a bar. The equivalent scene in Scorsese's version (I'll have to reacquaint with that one soon) is just sassy small talk and overt violence.
Very brilliant performance, very accurate! Thank you!
Beautiful performance.
A huge touch of genius right here!
Indeed,I remember . The Film was amazing,the music, top.
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing music. I LOVE IT ! ! !
Awesome. When I was a child, I was terrified of this subject. To this day, it gives me shivers.
Strings are the best!!!!!!😊