This collection includes classic film music such as Walton’s Richard III, Vaughan Williams’ 49th Parallel, as well as Herrmann’s music for a series of Hitchcock films which include Psycho, Marnie and Vertigo.

“Spellbinding…a firm favourite…performed with breathtaking precision by the LPO” - Gramophone (Herrmann)

Contents:
CD 1
Sir William Walton
Richard III
- Prelude

Constant Lambert
Anna Karenina: Suite
- Overture
- Forlarne
- Love scene
- Finale

Sir Arnold Bax
Oliver Twist: Two Lyrical Pieces
- Fagin's romp
- Finale

Arthur Benjamin
An Ideal Husband
- Waltz
- Galop

Sir William Walton
- Escape Me Never

Ralph Vaughan Williams
- 49th Parallel (from The Invaders)

Sir Arthur Bliss
Things to Come: Suite
- Prologue
- March
- Building of the New World
- Attack on the Moon Gun
- Epilogue

CD 2
Bernard Herrmann
- Psycho (A narrative for orchestra)
- Marnie
- North by Northwest
- Vertigo: Prelude - The nightmare - Scene d'amour
- A portrait of 'Hitch' (from The Trouble with Harry)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Hamlet (selection)
- Introduction
- Ball at the palace
- The ghost
- Scene of the poisoning
- The arrival and scene of the players
- The duel and death of Hamlet