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Intrada, in partnership with Volta Music, announces the premiere release of the complete score to Dimitri Tiomkin's 1951 classic Strangers on a Train. Performing with their usual precision and passion, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the baton of Robert Baxter presents the definitive release to one of Alfred Hitchcock's most famous films. While various suites of the score have appeared over the years, this is the first time the entire score has been recorded in a definitive presentation. This was Tiomkin's second collaboration with Hitchcock, although it had been some time since they had worked together on Shadow of a Doubt eight years earlier. Hitchcock was coming off a string of recent failures and choosing to return to the genre for which he was best known: the suspense thriller. It's perhaps Hitchcock's earlier experience that drew him back to Tiomkin. He tasked Tiomkin with creating a score that combined menace with brooding suspense.
After the main score program, two "Extras" finish the album. "Amusement Park," arranged for this recording by Paul Henning, offers a refreshing take on six popular songs that evoke nostalgia through their association with carnival rides. These songs provide more than atmosphere; they comment on the action. The other "extra" features music from I Confess, a score Tiomkin composed for Hitchcock the year after Strangers. The evocative theme sets the tone for the story of a priest played by Montgomery Clift accused of a murder he did not commit.
Conductor Robert Baxter is a regular guest conductor with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Ballet. His wide-ranging collaborations have included the British premiere of Gavin Bryars' Viola Concerto, John Williams: Night at the Oscars, Netflix soundtrack Life on Our Planet and numerous ballet productions of Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Scandal at Mayerling, Dextera, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Snow Queen, Mary Queen of Scots, Coppélia, The Crucible and Starstruck.
The album was produced by Patrick K. Russ and mastered by Chris Malone at Malone Digital. The 24-page booklet features all-new cover art by Stéphane Coëdel, session photographs, archival material and notes by Tiomkin authority Warren M. Sherk.
Strangers on a Train is a psychological thriller starring Farley Granger, Robert Walker and Ruth Roman. The film follows a tennis player who meets a charming but sinister stranger on a train who proposes a "perfect" murder plan in which each man kills someone the other wants dead, leading to a dangerous game of manipulation and suspense.
- Intrada
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