In a fortunate edition we may find four very interesting and rarely hear works from three of the greatest movie composers. The older in time is Herrmann's Sinfonietta for String Orchestra, written in 1936 during his more atonal and experimental period, and which will serve, in 1960, as psychological and musical base for the score of Psycho. Uneasy and profoundly dramatic work, whose unveiled counterpoint expertness is typical of the american composer, it is offered in the version on which Herrmann worked when he died. Composed in 1943, the Concerto for String Orchestra was the first score wrote by Rózsa after his arrival to the United States, and is not hard to read between its anguished and powerful notes all the tragedy left behind by the composer with the War in Europe. As a counterpoint, the Andante for String Orchestra offer a more loose but not less dramatic side, and its an arrangement of the first movement of the String Quartet No.1 composed in 1950, adapted for the ocasion by Christopher Palmer and the hungarian composer himself. At last, but not least, Waxman's Sinfonietta for String Orchestra & Timpani, in one of his scarcely pure concert works, it is a pleasure to hear thanks to its tripartite structure and its nice and straight style, where the color note put by the use of timpani, allow the composer to create a special timbre affinity.

Franz Waxman: Sinfonietta for String Orchestra & Timpani (1955) - 13:42
Miklós Rózsa: Andante for String Orchestra, op.22a (1992) - 9:30
Miklós Rózsa: Concerto for String Orchestra (1943) - 24:45
Bernard Herrmann: Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (1936/1975) - 17:30
Berlin Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Isaiah Jackson
KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS - 371522H1 / 65'

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