Three protagonists in this film; James Stewart, Kim Novak and this terrifying soundtrack.

I deep coming back to this performance. It truly captures the genius of Bernard Herrmann's music. Every time I hear the love theme, I cannot help but think how stunningly beautiful Kim Novak was in this Hitchcock classic.

Herrmann = Genius

I grew up listening to Rock and Jazz, this made me appreciate classical music. This score turned me onto Bartok, Ravel, Stravinsky. Wonderful performance by one of the worlds best orchestras.

This is a total masterpiece.

As a huge Hitchcock fan, I necessarily am a fan of Bernard Herrmanm. From "The Trouble with Harry" to "Psycho", his film scores for Hitchcock were masterpieces. Vertigo may be his best. The main title opening music is saturated with mystery and tension. But the love scene music is for me the most powerful. If you watch this great movie, this is the scene where James Stewert's character finds the woman (Kim Novak) who he fell in love with but thought was dead (long story). He realizes that it is her despite her "disguise", and then confronts her in her hotel room. What happens next has been studied by cinematographers for decades now as one of the true examples of pure genius film directing. The two characters do not move from their spots, but the camera moves slowly 360 degrees around them. As it does, the backround scenery changes from a hotel room to a previous important scene where they had been. I have always wondered if Herrmann watched and timed this scene before scoring the music. He had to, or else Steward and Novak did the scene with the score being somehow played. The timing between what happens on the screen and the music is so perfect. I have two excellent studio recordings of the soundtrack music to this movie. But this live performance by the RCO is better than either. So good!

The acoustics sound phenomenal in this hall! Gives new vibrancy to this score. Bravo 👏

I think that my cantankerous late colleague, Bernard Herrmann, would approve of this fine performance. I certainly do.

Just saw Vertigo again today. Amazing soundtrack! Bernard Herrmann could not record the score in the States as there was a musicians' strike. They tried to record it in England, However only part of the score was done when the british musicians' union decided to support their colleagues in America . So the rest was recorded in Vienna

Hitchcock and Hermann were made for each other. His scores gave Hithcock's films that final touch of emotional completion that gave them their universal recognition of greatness

Never gets old.

One of the all-time great film scores, played by one of the world's great orchestras. And whoever engineered this is a genius, because the acoustics sound dry and close-miked, like a film recording session, and not with the more expansive, but inappropriate, sound of a concert hall. A magnificent performance, whose only flaw is that it's only twelve-and-a-half minutes long and not the whole score. Though I've never heard it played better, if one wants the complete score, then the James Conlon recording is still the one to get.

The Crowning Achievement of both Herrmann and Hitchcock

God! That Vertigo opening is SCARY !!!!!

A film masterpiece. They don’t come often!

THANK YOU so much for sharing this amazing masterpiece. I love it, I don't think I'll ever get tired of it. Bernard Hermann was a musical genius. And then, you put such strength, such conviction into it... Bravo.

Bravo to the hearts of all members of the orchestra.❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Excellent! Maybe the best soundtrack of Bernard Herrmann!!!

Outstanding performance! I've watched this around 35-40 times already!

Greatest film score of all time. Bar none.

Deeply emotionally appropriate music at every level, for each scene. Never gets old.

The Concertgebouw has always been one of my favorite orchestras since the Philips recordings of Mahler's symphonies conducted by the great Bernard Haitink in the seventies. What a pleasure to discover this absolutely superb ensemble performing, in 2022, the music of (in my humble opinion... ) one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century: Bernard Herrmann. Stéphane Denève delivers a powerful, delicately sensitive and extremely passionate reading of one of the summits in film music history. Chapeau, Maestro!

I saw this preformed live by the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center a few months ago with the film playing on a screen behind. it was absolutely incredible.

Forget the associations, this is great absolute music.

So beautiful 🥲 masterpiece

Maybe the best movie score ever written.

Absolutely magnificent.

Of all the film scores Hermann coposed this is considered his masterpiece and for obvious reasons. It was even reprised many years later in the Oscar winning movie The Artist.

Excelente interpretación BRAVO!!!!

Have always loved the COA back to Van Beinum, my introduction to Debussy. It changed my listening trajectory for life. Love you all.

BEAUTIFUL

Brilliant

Love you Concertgebouw! Excellent interpretation. Also my favorite Bartok 2nd Violin Concerto with Haitink and Szeryng, and Nielsen and Sibelius Syms #5 live with Kondrashin. Thank you, and also for the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra with Dorati and Debussy with van Beinum.

Hitchcock's films would have had half the impact without Herman's scores. When I was a child, I saw the old Journey to the Center of the Earth, and the scene where the cast is on the rim of the Icelanic valcano awaiting the sun's ray to mark the entrance to their descent is scored by Herman, and when the sun's ray struck the crater rim and the blast of music hit, it made my skin tingle. I wish orchestras would include that short piece in concerts today. Isn't it strange how the Vertigo score creates an immediate atmosphere all its own - almost indescrible and unique. Perfection.

Bravo!!!!!

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Beautiful, beautiful!

OMG! Goldsmith. The soundtrack to The Sand Pebbles is still so powerful.

Thank you!

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I believe that the big brass sounds depicted the Fog Horns in and around the San Francisco Bay?

Loooooooooooooooooooove!

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Ineffable

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Alfred Hitchcock owes a great debt to Bernard Herrmann. Alfred Hitchcock's movies would not achieved "classic" status without Bernard Herrmann's magnificent scores.

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Bravo again. And again, but Pierre Monteux said "don't overconduct". :-)

Imagine the scenes without his music.

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Richard Wagner would be chewing the carpet at Wahn-not-so-Fried at the thought of a NY Jew, Maximillian Herman (Bernard Hermann) stealing from Tristan & Isolde for Vertigo!

No disrespect but the conductor resembles the Golem.

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Hermann was true genius. Compared to him John Williams is a mediocre piker!😅

The conductor's hair is like a woman's. I suppose he thinks he is far too important to make himself look presentable. He probably considers himself as equal to Beethoven who wore the fashion of his day two hundred years ago.

This is masterful indeed. Great experimental score. It really heightened the already superior quality of the movie.