Quartet Records and Universal Pictures Film Music Classics Collection proudly present the world premiere vinyl release of both the used and unused scores for Alfred Hitchcock’s FRENZY, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film.
FRENZY marked the director’s triumphant return to London in 1972. With an excellent script by Anthony Shaffer, the film was immediately considered one of Hitchcok’s best and has since become a classic.
After the parting of ways with Bernard Herrmann, Hitchcock changed composers in each of his last four films, choosing from those who were popular at the time. For FRENZY, his first choice was Henry Mancini (BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, THE PINK PANTHER, HATARI!, CHARADE), who wrote a sumptuous, gothic-hued score featuring an unusual orchestral palette. The main theme uses the dolorous tones and sepulchral pedals of a mighty organ, and the tension-filled score that follows is grim and at times almost brutal. Hitchcock, feeling it was too “dark and cruel,” turned it down and hired celebrated British composer Ron Goodwin (MURDER, SHE SAID, BATTLE OF BRITAIN, WHERE EAGLES DARE, SQUADRON 633) to compose a lighter, yet still suspenseful, score. For the main title, a panoramic shot over the Thames, Goodwin wrote a majestic melody ornamented with trumpets and timpani, in the best English tradition of pomp and circumstance.
FRENZY was the only completely rejected score in Henry Mancini’s long career, and also one of the most famous and requested Goodwin scores over the ensuing decades. Neither of them, however, have previously been officially released in any form until today.
This 2-LP collection has been painstakingly produced, restored and mastered by Mike Matessino from stereo and mono elements vaulted at Universal Pictures, with the collaboration of both the Ron Goodwin and Henry Mancini estates.
This special edition features an exclusive, in-depth essay by writer and composer Deniz Cordell packaged in a deluxe tip-on gatefold and pressed in audiophile 180 GM black vinyl. Limited 750 copies
トラックリスト
DISC 1. Film Score Composedand Conducted by RON GOODWIN
ヒッチコックによる猟奇サスペンス・スリラー。50周年を記念して、本編使用スコアと未使用スコアが180g重量盤LPで世界初リリース！
バーナード・ハーマンとの決別後、ヒッチコックは最後の4作で作曲家を変え、その時々に人気のあった作曲家を選んでいる。『フレンジー』で彼が最初に選んだのはヘンリー・マンシーニ（『ティファニーで朝食を』『ピンクパンサー』『ハタリ！』）で、珍しいオーケストラの音色を使ったゴシック調の豪華なスコアを書いている。メインテーマには、オルガンの悲しげな音色と墓場のようなペダルが用いられ、その後に続く緊張感に満ちたスコアは、時に残酷なまでに厳しいものでした。ヒッチコックは“暗く残酷すぎる”と感じ、これを断り、イギリスの著名な作曲家ロン・グッドウィン（『空軍大戦略』『荒鷲の要塞』『ナバロンの嵐』）を起用してより軽く、しかもサスペンスフルなスコアを作曲させることに成功した。メインタイトルであるテムズ川のパノラマショットのために、グッドウィンはトランペットとティンパニで装飾された荘厳なメロディーを書き、英国の最高の伝統である華やかさを演出した。
『フレンジー』はヘンリー・マンシーニの長いキャリアの中で唯一完全にボツになったスコアであり、その後数十年にわたって最も有名でリクエストの多かったグッドウィンのスコアのひとつでもある。しかし、どちらも今日まで正式にリリースされたことはありませんでした。
このコレクションは、ロン・グッドウィンとヘンリー・マンシーニの両遺族の協力のもと、ユニバーサル・ピクチャーズに保管されていたステレオとモノラル音源からマイク・マテシーノが丹念に制作、復元、マスタリングを行ったものです。
この特別版には、作家であり作曲家でもあるデニス・コーデルによる詳細なエッセイが、28ページのブックレットに収められています。
限定750枚
霧の都ロンドン。テムズ河の澱んだ水面に女性の全裸死体が浮かんだ。今回も犯行手口は縞柄のネクタイによる絞殺。市民は姿なき殺人鬼の相次ぐ凶行に震え上がっていた。そんな折、短気な性格が災いして、バーテンをクビになったリチャード(ジョン・フィンチ)は、結婚相談所を経営する元妻を訪ねる。ところが、彼女が次の被害者となり目撃者の証言で有力容疑者となってしまったリチャード。彼は友人のラスク(バリー・フォスター)に助けを求めるが・・・。
斬新な演出テクニックから、殺しの小道具となるネクタイの使用法に至るまで、ヒッチコックならではの才気にあふれた一作。
監督：アルフレッド・ヒッチコック、出演：ジョン・フィンチ、バリー・フォスター、ビリー・ホワイトロー。1972年イギリス／アメリカ。
Quartet Records and Universal Pictures Film Music Classics Collection proudly present the world premiere vinyl release of both the used and unused scores for Alfred Hitchcock’s FRENZY, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film.
FRENZY marked the director’s triumphant return to London in 1972. With an excellent script by Anthony Shaffer, the film was immediately considered one of Hitchcok’s best and has since become a classic.
After the parting of ways with Bernard Herrmann, Hitchcock changed composers in each of his last four films, choosing from those who were popular at the time. For FRENZY, his first choice was Henry Mancini (BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, THE PINK PANTHER, HATARI!, CHARADE), who wrote a sumptuous, gothic-hued score featuring an unusual orchestral palette. The main theme uses the dolorous tones and sepulchral pedals of a mighty organ, and the tension-filled score that follows is grim and at times almost brutal. Hitchcock, feeling it was too “dark and cruel,” turned it down and hired celebrated British composer Ron Goodwin (MURDER, SHE SAID, BATTLE OF BRITAIN, WHERE EAGLES DARE, SQUADRON 633) to compose a lighter, yet still suspenseful, score. For the main title, a panoramic shot over the Thames, Goodwin wrote a majestic melody ornamented with trumpets and timpani, in the best English tradition of pomp and circumstance.
FRENZY was the only completely rejected score in Henry Mancini’s long career, and also one of the most famous and requested Goodwin scores over the ensuing decades. Neither of them, however, have previously been officially released in any form until today.
This 2-LP collection has been painstakingly produced, restored and mastered by Mike Matessino from stereo and mono elements vaulted at Universal Pictures, with the collaboration of both the Ron Goodwin and Henry Mancini estates.
This special edition features an exclusive, in-depth essay by writer and composer Deniz Cordell packaged in a deluxe tip-on gatefold and pressed in audiophile 180 GM black vinyl.
Limited 750 copies
トラックリストDISC 1. Film Score Composed and Conducted by RON GOODWIN
SIDE A
1. Main Title (From the Motion Picture ‘Frenzy’) (2:47)
2. Covent Garden (1:00)
3. Frenzy (0:39)
4. Arrival At Brenda’s Flat (0:31)
5. In The Salvation Army Hostel (0:24)
6. Death Of Brenda (2:17)
7. Fugitive From the Coburg Hotel (2:51)
8. A Talk in the Park (2:50)
9. A Spree De Corpse (1:44)
10. Murder Flashback (1:30)
SIDE B
1. Escape and Retribution (6:27)
2. Frenzy (End Title) (0:47)
Source Music
3. Poem (4:01)
4. Juke Box (2:30)
Additional Music
5. Murder Flashback (Alternate) (1:32)
6. Frenzy (End Title) (Film Version Edit) (0:46)
DISC 2. Unused Score Composed and Conducted by HENRY MANCINI
SIDE C
1. Prologue (2:37)
2. My Tie Is Your Tie (1:17)
3. My Kind Of Woman (3:12)
4. Son Of My Kind Of Woman (2:21)
5. Exit Oscar Wilde (2:50)
6. Big Drag For Babs (1:05)
7. Hot Potatoes (2:13)
8. Babs Grabs (1:11)
SIDE D
1. The Inspector Thinks (0:53)
2. Rusk On Candid Camera (0:30)
3. Off to Rusk’s Place (4:17)
4. End Credits / End Rusk (0:47)
Source Music
5. Posh For Two (3:16)
6. Tijuana On Thames (1:59)
Additional Music
7. Prologue (Alternate) (2:53)
8. Babs Grabs (Alternate) (1:11)