STEREO LP UNICORN RHS-332 BERNARD HERRMANN CLARINET QUINTET STRING QUARTET RARE

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INFORMATION about this recording:

Album/Artists/Label and Number:  BERNARD HERRMANN: CHAMBER MUSIC

ARIEL QUARTET; AMICI QUARTET

UNICORN RHS-332       RARE!     (Stereo) Vintage LP

 

VINYL CONDITION:                          Near Mint

ALBUM JACKET CONDITION:         Very Good Plus

 

 

PRICE:  $30.00 (buy now) or best offer

COMMENT: Bernard Herrmann was arguably the most innovative film composer of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, even though he actually rejected the term "film composer," preferring to call himself a composer who sometimes wrote film scores. That was an apt description for a musician who, in addition to his film work, also composed works in a variety of other forms including opera, symphony, musical comedy, and concert music, as well as writing extensively for radio and television, while maintaining a concurrent conducting career that found him wielding a baton before major orchestras in New York, London, Los Angeles, and other cities, and in recording studios where he committed many of his compositions and those of other composers to disc. Nevertheless, his greatest fame came as an Academy Award-winning movie scorer who provided background music for 47 feature films released between 1941 and 1976, among them such cinema classics as Citizen Kane, Psycho, and Taxi Driver. In 1968, Herrmann contracted with Decca's London Records subsidiary for a series of albums of his movie music to be made for its "Phase 4" stereo series - destined to become audiophile favorites - beginning with "The Great Movie Thrillers". Again, the orchestra was the London Philharmonic. Other releases in the series, which continued into the mid-'70s, included "Great Tone Poems" (Herrmann's interpretation of works by such composers as Liszt and Sibelius), a version of Gustav Holst's The Planets, "Great Film Classics", "The Impressionists", "Great British Film Scores" (volumes one and two), "Great Shakespearean Films", "The Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann", and "The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann", with the National Philharmonic Orchestra performing in most cases. Also working with the Unicorn label, he recorded a version of Joachim Raff's Lenore Symphony. He gave up his house in California and moved permanently to London. With few film assignments, he devoted himself more to recording classical albums in 1971 and 1972, including "The Four Faces of Jazz" (those faces, curiously, being Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Milhaud, and Stravinsky) for Decca with the London Festival Recording Ensemble and Charles Ives' Second Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra. In 1974, Herrmann recorded his own sole symphony, giving it its first hearing since 1942. Meanwhile, Herrmann continued to record his own compositions and those of others for Unicorn, including "A Musical Garland of the Seasons" and, in his last independent recording on October 2, 1975, his version of the Psycho score. By the turn of the 21st century, it was not unusual to see him described as the greatest film composer of his era, and his work proved profoundly influential on the scorers who followed him.

 

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GRADING
VINYL
Near Mint is a record that has most of the original luster and has probably only been played a handful of times. There is little likelihood of any marks on the vinyl or objectionable surface noise. Label is clean without wear; no spindle wear.

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Very Good Plus is a record that falls in between Very Good and Excellent.

Very Good is a record that has marginal original luster and has experienced moderate play. There is the likelihood of surface marks that may contribute to sporadic surface noise in the form of tics, “static”, and so forth. Label shows wear, and there is spindle wear evident.

GRADING
ALBUM JACKET

Near Mint is a jacket that may or may not still be in original shrink (opened), having no seam splits, edge wear, or ring wear, nor faded colors. Such albums look and feel sturdy and like new.

Excellent is a jacket that is very similar to Near Mint except there may be a crease, or slight wear overall. There are no seam splits or ring wear, and colors are still vibrant.

Very Good Plus is a jacket that falls in between Very Good and Excellent.

Very Good is a jacket that has may have any of the following: general moderate wear, ring wear, seam splits, edge wear or taped edges. Colors show fading; whites are often somewhat yellowed.

 

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