North By Northwest - Bernard Herrman

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  • čas přidán 13. 07. 2009
  • This piece is called Train Conversations, and it is from the score to North by Northwest, one of Alfred Hitchcock's best and the first one of this genius director's films that I ever saw. This movie stars the suave Cary Grant, lovely Eva Marie Saint, underrated and brilliant James Mason and great character actor Martin Landau.
    Scored by Bernard Herrman, this part of the North by Northwest theme is used throughout all of the parts in that movie that do not involve action. I will be uploading the main suspense theme as well.
    This piece is used most prominentyl in the romantic scenes between Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in the train, which is why is is called "Train Conversations." I added the clip at the beginning :).
    Music 5/5 (One of Herrmann's most memorable) Movie 5/5 (One of Hitchcock's masterpieces of suspense).
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Komentáře • 58

  • @hansmiller664
    @hansmiller664 Před 3 lety +6

    For almost 45 YEARS (!), I have been looking for this beautiful, romantic and dramatic score!
    Today I am 60, but I still remember, at age 16, how I was in love... unfulfilled...

  • @nicholasgerrish6022
    @nicholasgerrish6022 Před rokem +2

    Bernard Herrmann knocks spots off many of todays film composers and Hitchcock at his best, as he is here, is right up near the the top of a list of the best film directors. There won’t be much argument there…….
    This particular piece of music, sets a scene for a very romantic interlude on a train. Perfection!

  • @rolandh4947
    @rolandh4947 Před 4 lety +4

    Close your eyes and open your ears. What heavently music by the genius Bernard Herrmann

  • @rykelkharg2903
    @rykelkharg2903 Před 8 lety +23

    This piece "train conversations" is not only beautifully and delicately scored, it is nothing less than a romantic masterpiece. In fact, it is too good for a movie, it deserves to be expanded into a concerto. If Hermann had been persuaded to do so, I have no doubt it would then ranked as one of the greatest of the romantic concertos.

    • @greeneyedwarlock882
      @greeneyedwarlock882 Před rokem +2

      Couldn't POSSIBLY AGREE WITH YOU MORE!!! It's brevity is the absolute worst thing about it! It's also as beautiful as ANY CLASSICAL, romantic concerto I've ever heard.....and I've heard an awful lot. So eternally elegant, hypnotic and stunningly beautiful that it is forever HAUNTING. ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @thinnerdounut
    @thinnerdounut Před 2 měsíci +1

    Saw this last night at AMC theaters. Good movie and I love this theme.

  • @gregorymccollum9107
    @gregorymccollum9107 Před 10 lety +8

    Incomparable movie and music. Pure genius. I continue to watch it several times per year.

  • @jerrythenipper2372
    @jerrythenipper2372 Před 12 lety +4

    This music was especially effective for the kissing scene on the train. Very memorable!!

  • @a320trevor
    @a320trevor Před 3 lety +3

    Art that will last for ever 1959 dawn of the 60s. ❤️❤️❤️

  • @nicholasgerrish6022
    @nicholasgerrish6022 Před rokem +2

    Here we have it, and like me, we aren’t disappointed!
    I’m 75, and feel the same……

  • @kirsteni.russell5903
    @kirsteni.russell5903 Před 7 lety +7

    This theme conveys so much romantic longing. After you see the movie and understand the motivations of the character Eva Marie Saint played, you can hear what she feels in this theme. Yet the music is so good that it stands on its own. I saw North by Northwest many times before the film became available on home video and before any recording of this theme was produced on record, tape, or CD, and I used to play the music in my head at the oddest times--including a train trip! This is music that gets under my skin!

    • @mikerf53
      @mikerf53 Před 6 lety

      Kirsten I. Russell hello Kirsten my name is Mike I love this love scene so much and the music the scene has everything you would ever want passion romance and it is the most erotic love scene ever made the passion the way they look into each other's eyes the way they kiss the erotic way he strokes her hair the way he kisses her neck I love your take on the music please tell me your romantic take on the love scene would love to here it I think the scene is the best love scene ever made please let me know what you think would value your opinion greatly please to know you

  • @AndersonDE7
    @AndersonDE7 Před 12 lety +5

    Thank you for uploading this enchanting music. It will live forever as long as movies are watched.

  • @greeneyedwarlock882
    @greeneyedwarlock882 Před rokem +2

    Exquisitely and eternally, repeat EXQUISITELY AND ETERNALLY mesmerizing, stunning and beautiful!!!❤🧡💛💚💙💜

  • @organist1965
    @organist1965 Před 13 lety +3

    Alfred Hitchcock & Bernhard Herrmann
    einfach genial!

  • @donaldbutler6545
    @donaldbutler6545 Před 10 lety +9

    Love it. Seen movie many times. One does not think about this music much; to me it shows the absolute genius of Bernard Herrmann.

    • @florenciodelasherasmartind4882
      @florenciodelasherasmartind4882 Před 7 lety

      TTTТhis movie is now aаavailаblе to wааaаtch heeеreееe => twitter.com/38245544103af70ed/status/822768533360676868 North Bу Nоrthwest Bernard Herrmaan

    • @nicholasgerrish6022
      @nicholasgerrish6022 Před rokem +1

      So often one doesn’t listen to the music…..
      That’s the brilliance of a fine movie, editing and a wonderful music score, which pulls the film together.

  • @mca1218
    @mca1218 Před 7 lety +2

    Singularly gorgeous, rapturous music- especially at the 1:40 downbeat with the strings full out. You can hear that trademark Herrmann major/minor lilt that he repeated so memorably in Vertigo, just one year earlier.

  • @germancycle
    @germancycle Před 8 lety +3

    Although I am a trumpet player, Bernard Herrmann was extremely good at writing music for string instruments. They could be incredibly lush like here and Vertigo, and yet harsh and unsettling in Psycho. It took me a while to appreciate just how good the strings sound in this kind of music.

  • @rocksmeller99
    @rocksmeller99 Před 13 lety +2

    very good music but sad! great job on this and tremendous movie!

  • @dfw3355
    @dfw3355 Před 8 lety +4

    thank you so much for posting this........beautiful music from an incredibly electrifying scene. One of Hollywood's greatest moments to this day.

  • @BahamaWynters
    @BahamaWynters Před 6 lety +3

    Love the stills you put with Herrmann's music. Well done.

  • @brucermorgan
    @brucermorgan Před 6 lety +2

    Love it.

  • @mangiafrani
    @mangiafrani Před 10 lety +5

    It's the most beautiful peace of music Herrmann ever wrote.

    • @TellyWatcher1997
      @TellyWatcher1997 Před 6 lety +1

      Indeed it is a masterpiece and so beautiful but for me it's the music to "The Ghost and Mrs Muir", 1947, with Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. The Andante Cantabile is wonderful (Herrman at the height of his powers to move listeners with his music) where Lucy Muir talks to her newly engaged daughter about the dreams she had and how Captain Gregg may well have come back to talk to her....

    • @unowen-nh9ov
      @unowen-nh9ov Před 3 lety

      @@TellyWatcher1997 Why I love him (1 reason), so many varieties, so many genres, so rich. Who else conducted radio network symphony, worked with Welles, Hitchcock, Harryhausen, Scorsese? Spielberg's story of meeting Herrmann last day of his life is hilarious, completely what you want a legend to be. His music will live on for as long as their are listeners.

  • @jewellmiket
    @jewellmiket Před 14 lety

    I have done a movie of my own to pay tribute to Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock for their unique collaberation that I am attaching to this site. They were a great inspiration............

  • @RobertSilvestri86
    @RobertSilvestri86 Před 10 lety +3

    Great music, great films & great screenplays never grow old. Visually dated maybe. But then there is Eva, (smiling)

    • @cognitiveharmony2950
      @cognitiveharmony2950 Před 6 lety +3

      Never visually dated. These films have far more impact than modern movies. Take it from me. Born in 94, saw North by Northwest at a very young age. My dad had bought the DVD for me to see. Changed my life.

    • @seanolaocha940
      @seanolaocha940 Před 5 lety

      @@cognitiveharmony2950 Completely agree, I'm only 20 but I can see that vintage films clearly outclass most films produced today.

  • @mangiafrani
    @mangiafrani Před 10 lety +3

    Sorry about my stupid spelling. I meant to say this is the most beautiful piece of music
    Herrmann ever wrote. It is also known as "Romance on the Train."

  • @bronxboy47
    @bronxboy47 Před 9 lety +13

    The scene accompanying this throbbing, hypnotic music contained some of the raciest sexual dialog ever heard on the screen before.

    • @oldmoviemusic
      @oldmoviemusic  Před 6 lety +1

      Yes, Hitchcock was great at cleverly sidestepping the censorship of the day with innuendo.

  • @richarddowney1972
    @richarddowney1972 Před 8 lety +2

    Haven't decided if this love theme or that of "Laura" is is the superior. A dead heat. Dead heat also between this Hitchcock film and "Rear Window". Ah, New York Central RR and others. The post-war golden age of passenger railroads. Now old and nostalgic.

  • @Shabannie
    @Shabannie Před 15 lety

    Thank you for bringing this movie to my attention. I enjoyed the music as well.
    ----Ellen

  • @kirsteni.russell5903
    @kirsteni.russell5903 Před 8 lety +2

    This theme marks the transition of a comedy thriller into a romantic thriller, and also could serve as the second movement of Bernard Herrmann's Symphonic Dances, which his score for North by Northwest really is!

    • @jennifercepeda554
      @jennifercepeda554 Před 7 lety

      ТТТThis mоviе is nоw аvаilableеее tооo wаtсh hеre => twitter.com/9918272952cbb671f/status/795841929493655552 North Bу Nоrthwest Bеrnard Herrmаn

    • @kirsteni.russell5903
      @kirsteni.russell5903 Před 7 lety +1

      No need for me to watch the movie online. I have the DVD and a TV screen much bigger than my computer screen!

  • @oldmoviemusic
    @oldmoviemusic  Před 14 lety

    good way of phrasing it! the softness of the old film colors really draws you into the old movies well.

  • @reedlanger5988
    @reedlanger5988 Před 11 lety

    i kind of wish this song was used more in the film, like if they used it when ever Thornhill arrived at a new location, or when the bus drops him off in Indiana
    regardless, the movie is still a masterpiece

  • @bondurango
    @bondurango Před 14 lety

    Bernard Herrmann may have been Alfred Hitchcock's musical alter ego. But the influence of Richard Wagner, on this piece, is unmistakable.

  • @BERTRAMCAT
    @BERTRAMCAT Před 13 lety

    merci Alfred
    merci Bernard
    merci Leo

  • @eisenherzification
    @eisenherzification Před 4 lety

    Eine Melodie welche die Liebe neu erfinden lässt.

  • @Disley74
    @Disley74 Před 13 lety

    Would Herrmann have written this without Wagner? No, but he may have created a different sound world. Vertigo is his masterpeice for me. Tristan! A joy to perform too.

  • @radiootoo
    @radiootoo Před 13 lety +1

    DREAMY INDEED...THANKS FOR YOUR LABOR OF LOVE...

  • @PaulRietvoorn
    @PaulRietvoorn Před 3 lety

    Double like

  • @wesleyan97
    @wesleyan97 Před 12 lety

    @BlueCougar, the Wesendonck were composed as studies for Tristan--that is, they were written before Tristan.

  • @wesleyan97
    @wesleyan97 Před 12 lety

    @bondurango And so much of the Vertigo soundtrack seems almost directly lifted from the Wesendonck Lieder...which is why I love it :-)

  • @jewellmiket
    @jewellmiket Před 14 lety

    The movie I made, "We all do dumb things", is hilarious and suspense-filled with non-stop fun and I owe it all to Hitchcock and Herrmann as my inspirations.........

  • @oldmoviemusic
    @oldmoviemusic  Před 14 lety

    haha, that would be funny...however, not that many directors do cameos now, and when they do they never compare to the wit or difficulty of Hitchcock's appearances.
    If Hitch were still directing then we could put your category into action and finally get him the Oscar he never won!

  • @oldmoviemusic
    @oldmoviemusic  Před 15 lety

    If you have not seen North By Northwest, you may consider the end of this clip to be a spoiler, so do not watch to the end if you have not seen the movie! Please rate and comment! Thanks!>

  • @oldmoviemusic
    @oldmoviemusic  Před 14 lety

    @bondurango
    Yes indeed!

  • @SingHouse
    @SingHouse Před 12 lety

    @bondurango In particular at 1:40 it has Tristan-y dimensions...

  • @43nostromo
    @43nostromo Před 9 lety

    North West Airlines. LOL. Ooops....hope I didn't ruin this for anyone.

  • @harrihiltunen1244
    @harrihiltunen1244 Před 7 lety

    classical movie...

  • @dfw3355
    @dfw3355 Před 2 lety

    zzzz....0008----0356 to 0400 fade down.