Intrada Soundtrack Forum

9/9/2019

The recording sessions in Glasgow were a terrific success. Thanks to an incredible team that included some of the best people in this business, Intrada has brought Dimitri Tiomkin’s vivid suspense score from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Dial M For Murder to life in stunning detail. Our recording sessions with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra this last week captured the entire score, including never-before-heard music cut from the film prior to its 1954 release as well as two different “Intermission Cards”, an alternate main title and a beautiful orchestral arrangement of the main theme written for possible commercial interests back in the day. Everything went so smoothly that we even had time to record an additional 8-minute concert suite from another score to add to the album as an “extra”. The recordings for everything are simply superb, conducted by a master of his craft, William T. Stromberg, engineered by one of the world’s finest scoring mixers, Simon Rhodes, and played with superb musicianship and enthusiasm by the augmented RSNO. Pat Russ was masterful with music preparation and score reconstructions, Paul Talkington continues to amaze us all with his orchestra contracting skills and Anna Stromberg helped keep the massive stack of parts delivered on time and clear up any note errors present from the original 1954 scores. Another huge asset was our recording everything in the new RSNO studio which has audio acoustics that rival the best studios we’ve ever been involved with. And having Olivia Tiomkin, the famed composer's widow, present with us the entire time literally blessed the event. Our whole team is proud of what we just put down on tape and we’re all looking forward to presenting the finished album to everyone for their listening pleasure!