Bernard Herrmann
Suite for String Quartet
Tippett Quartet
Julian Bliss, Clarinet
"...thrillingly, chillingly delivered … it is impossible to imagine more expert renditions than these."
Gramophone
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“Clarinettist Julian Bliss plays with exquisite restraint, as though wanting not to disturb the intimate conversations of the Tippett Quartet.”
The Independent
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“Perhaps his most famous score was for Hitchcock’s Psycho … here played in an arrangement by Robert Birchall for string quartet. If anything, it sounds creepier … Performances are splendid.”
The Sunday Telegraph
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Bernard Herrmann was perhaps one of the greatest musical all-rounders of the 20th Century. Although he is best known for his scores to perhaps some of the most iconic films ever made (ʻVertigoʼ, ʻCitizen Kaneʼ, ʻPsychoʼ), he was also a talented composer for the concert hall, with an early career marked out by his skill as a conductor - praised by Stravinsky amongst others, who autographed Hermannʼs score for his Symphony in 3 Movements with "To the excellent musician and conductor, Bernard Herrmann. Cordially, I. Stravinsky."
The Tippett Quartet capture the energy and musical finesse of Herrmannʼs works in this recording, accompanied for Souvernirs de Voyage by the clarinetist Julian Bliss and featuring a new arrangement of his score for ʻPsychoʼ.
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