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Based on 75 ratings
1958 Ratings: #1 in Soundtracks
July 1958 / Release Date
Soundtrack / Format
Mercury / Label
Bernard Herrmann / Composer
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AllMusic

Herrmann develops longer melodies but employs his same variation and "cell" techniques in this score, one of his finest, played here by the Sinfonia of London and conducted by Muir Mathieson.

maztergame
91

Scene D'amour is quite possibly the greatest piece of music ever written.

lapartmaudite
80

Wagnerian tragedy, "Liebestode" and Scene d'Amour
impossible to hold, impossible object, unretrievable
bassoon and clarinet, woodwind and brass
gimme that illusionistic romantic delusion I've created solely in my head, irrevocable past call, "too late, too late. we can't bring her back." fate, fate
doom and determinism, a violent grip, Judy trips
falling for her, tumbling erotic vertigo, mortal obsession. "He remade you, much like I remade you. Or even *better*." ... read more

NR

peak.

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