Composer of the Week - Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) - Episode 3

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Bernard Herrmann, concentrating on the impact Great Britain's writers, culture and landscape had on the composer. He was a self-confessed Anglophile and numerous trips to England resulted in several important projects, including one of his most ambitious - an adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights. Prelude to The Ghost and Mrs Muir 20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra Bernard Herrmann (conductor) Varese Sarabande VSD 5850 Tr 2 January (The Fantasticks) Michael Rippon (bass) National Philharmonic Orchestra Bernard Herrmann (conductor) UKCD 2063 Tr 5 Rochester, Rochester's Past, the Fire, Duo - the Door, The Wedding - The Wife (Jane Eyre) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Adriano (conductor) Naxos 8.223535 Trs 8, 10, 11, 18 Nelly will you keep a secret... Isn't that Heathcliff? (Wuthering Heights, Act 2) Catherine Earnshaw Morag Beaton (soprano) Nelly Linton Elizabeth Bainbridge (mezzo-soprano) Joseph Michael Rippon (bass) Pro Arte Orchestra Bernard Herrmann (conductor) UKCD 2050/51/52 CD2 Trs 6, 7, 8 Concerto Macabre (Hangover Square) Philip Fowke (piano) RTE Concert Orchestra Proinnsias O Duinn (conductor) Naxos 8.554323 Tr 7.