Composer of the Week - Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) - Episode 2

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Bernard Herrmann, surveying the years he spent at CBS as a radio and TV composer and conductor. Herrmann joined CBS in the 1930s, and as a relatively new broadcasting organisation, it offered him an exciting platform for his musical innovations. He was in his element and happily met the challenges of live programming with startlingly original scores for numerous radio and TV broadcasts, including classics such as an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and The Twilight Zone. Exuberance from The Walt Whitman Suite CBS Orchestra Cerberus Records CST 0210 S1, B1 The Brave New World Suite CBS Orchestra Cerberus Records CST 0210 S2 B1 Little Girl Lost - Where are you? (The Twilight Zone) Andy Findon, Jim Gregory (flute/alto/piccolo) Anna Noakes (flute/alto/bass/piccolo) Nina Roberson (flute/bass) Helen Tunstall, Thelma Owen, Gillian Tingay, Fiona Hibbert (harps) Norbert Blume (viola d'amore) Steve Henderson (percussion) Joel McNeely (conductor) Varese Sarabande VSD2 6087 CD2 Tr 2 Cantata Moby Dick (1940); Male Chorus: And God created great whales Ishmael John Amis (tenor) The Aeolian Singers London Philharmonic Orchestra Bernard Herrmann (conductor) UKCD CD 2061 Tr 1 The Devil and Daniel Webster New Zealand Symphony Orchestra James Sedares (conductor) Koch 3-7224-2H1 Trs 1-5 Finale (Symphony No 1) The Phoenix Symphony James Sedares (conductor) Koch 3-7609-2 Tr 10.