Intrada Soundtrack Forum

01/09/2023

It’s really exciting to be only days away from newly recording two incredible Bernard Herrmann film scores from the fifties, On Dangerous Ground which has never been recorded in stereo and, for myself, of particular interest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, which has simply never been released in any format. We have assembled a very large number of players, expanding the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and again have William T. Stromberg on the podium. I have been studying Herrmann’s complete printed scores for a spell now and am downright anxious to hear all these notes come to life. Our recording engineer on all of this is going to be our friend Mike Ross-Trevor, veteran of countless Jerry Goldsmith scores and happily several of our previous Excalibur releases, including Ivanhoe, Julius Caesar and Jason And The Argonauts. With this team, I’m confident we’ll be making some truly exciting music next week. It may seem like a small tidbit but we’re even recording the VistaVision logo by Nathan Van Cleave that opens the Hitchcock score. Now there’s an under-represented composer who deserves his day. Maybe these few seconds will help move the needle!

And worthy of attention as well is Jay Chattaway’s expanded release of Silver Bullet, showing the score to be much more varied, exciting and cohesive than previous releases suggested. This newly remastered CD is yours to order starting on Tuesday.