Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Keri Fuge, Roderick Williams, Mario Venzago & Joshua Tan - Herrmann: Suite from Wuthering Heights; Echoes for Strings (2023)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Digital booklet | 01:20:41 | 187 Mb
Classical, Vocal | Label: Chandos Records
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Digital booklet | 01:20:41 | 187 Mb
Classical, Vocal | Label: Chandos Records
Bernard Herrmann is widely regarded as one of Hollywood’s most important composers, responsible for more than fifty film scores (in addition to his work for TV, radio, and the concert hall), and noted for his collaborations with Orson Welles and, later, with Alfred Hitchcock. Welles was unofficially involved with Robert Stevenson’s film of Jane Eyre in the 1940s, and it was Welles that suggested Herrmann as composer for the project. Herrmann became obsessed with all things Brontë, and within months was writing to friends of his plans to write an opera on Wuthering Heights. It took him eight years to complete the vocal score, using a libretto written by his wife, Lucille Fletcher. Although he conducted a recording of the work, in 1966, he failed to see a live production in his lifetime.