Bernard Herrmann was famous for his film scores, but he was also a leading figure in music for radio, to which he brought his inimitable palette of mood and sonority. Whitman, whose subject is Walt Whitman’s collection of poems Leaves of Grass, was a 1944 radio drama, a genre now much neglected but revived in this newly restored version. Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra is not a suite or excerpts from the film but a concert work, re-ordered and re-composed, while Souvenirs de voyage is one of the most polished and seductive of all American chamber works.
Herrmann, Bernard
Corwin, Norman - Lyricist
Husted, Christopher - Arranger
Whitman, Walt - Lyricist
Whitman - Radio Play by Norman Corwin (reconstructed by C. Husted, 2019)
1 Introduction: I, Walt Whitman, heard that you asked for something to prove this puzzle the New World (Whitman) 00:45
2 Welcome: You! Whoever you are! (Whitman) 01:27
3 Perpetual Journey: I tramp a perpetual journey (Whitman) 04:10
4 Listen: Listen: when the psalm sings instead of the singer (Whitman, Stranger, Cynic) 02:07
5 Cosmos: A cosmos, of Manhattan, the son! (Whitman, Stranger) 01:15
6 Song: A simple separate person (Whitman, Cynic) 02:19
7 Oath: I celebrate myself, and sing myself (Whitman, Child) 03:05
8 Miracles: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars (Whitman, Child) 02:05
9 Battle: Of life immense in passion, pulse and power, I sing (Whitman) 01:22
10 War: I will acknowledge contemporary lands (Whitman, Radio Voice) 06:08
11 Ships: Flaunt out, O sea, your separate flags of nations! (Whitman) 02:08
12 Divinity: Listener out there! (Whitman) 01:40
13 Finale: I see not America only (Whitman) 02:26
Herrmann, Bernard
Souvenirs de voyage
14 I. Lento: Molto tranquillo 09:57
15 II. Berceuse: Andante 06:56
16 III. Andantino: Canto amoroso 07:33
Herrmann, Bernard
Mauceri, John - Arranger
Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra (reconstructed by J. Mauceri for string orchestra)
17 Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra (reconstructed by J. Mauceri for string orchestra) 15:49
Total Playing Time: 01:11:12
