Fimucité 5 - North by northwest (Bernard Herrmann)

[@dsteinmetz1]

Superb recording and performance of one of the greatest film scores of all time. Herrmann's genius is all the more stunning after more than half a century. He and his music will never be forgotten. Thank you for this lovely performance.

[@dinithavithanage]

What an incredible performance. This is not an easy piece. So much coordination and technique by everyone involved. Very passionate conducting of one of Herrmann's best compositions. Amazing!

[@fimucite]

Thank you so much Dinitha!, we appreciate a lot your comment. This is such a treasure performance of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra conducted by film music composer and conductor Diego Navarro, music and artistic director of FIMUCITÉ (Tenerife International Film Music Festival).

[@taiofthipc5594]

I'm a screenwriter, and the Tenerife orchestra's rendition of this theme song perfectly epitomizes the excitement and frenetic nature of the film, quite likely exactly what Ernest Lehmann (the screenwriter) would have wanted. Most impressive work -- BRAVO!

[@keithbrown8490]

The video is so well filmed and edited it's exciting to watch the musician race along like they're being chased with Cary Grant was in the movie !

[@JSDesignHK]

To me, this theme more than any other is evocative of the creative genius of Bernard Herrrmann. Brilliantly performed here by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra.

[@diegonavarroreyes]

Thank you JSD, will send your feedback to maestro Navarro!

[@HardRockMaster7577]

I wish the Dallas Symphony would perform this, but, being "Dallas," they're all about Harry Potter, E.T., and the like.

[@ozgoodel.9645]

I'm visiting Mt. Rushmore for the first time next summer, and I just saved this to replay as I'm touring. Spectacular!

[@whispermason8052]

This is one of the Best Tracks in Movie History for sure. It does have a bit of West Side Story Feel to it, but there is no Mistaking which Movie this is from. It has great movement and energy.

[@anandnarayananrajagopal7162]

This is from north by north west title music

[@mrjones29]

This came before West Side Story though.

[@whispermason8052]

@Mr Jones Except west side story isn't the best musical soundtrack of all time. Conan The Barbarian from 1980 is.

[@mrjones29]

@@whispermason8052 Everyone has moments of weakness. That was yours with that statement. I like Conan, don't remake it...again.

[@whispermason8052]

@@mrjones29 weakness is musicals

[@gabbyhyman1246]

Excellent performance. 👏 I will say this, I've yet to see another orchestra with so many dazzling and powerful women.

[@victorcolladohernandez6644]

El maestro Diego Navarro es un fuera de serie, que maravillosa interpretación.

[@beckoning-chasm]

Normally, I don't really like the rapid-fire editing, but here it was wonderfully appropriate. You really got to see how the various sections combined to make this exciting. Thank you!

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

As great as the story is, there is no North By Northwest without this absolutely wonderful masterpiece.

[@johnshitwalker3483]

Amazing energy for everyone. Bravo!

[@ziyadyamut]

The conductor's features were also "North by North West" i.e. his cheeks, looks, etc... as if he's living Hitchcock's movie...Bravo ! Hats off !

[@diegonavarroreyes]

Thank you so much for your words!!

[@timeforbeans]

YASSSSSS I love this music. Such a great performance by all these talented artists. :)

[@leifjohnson617]

NBNW has one of the best musical intros of any movie. Fantastic!

[@jjphoenix4055]

El magistral Bernard Herrmann. Perfect pace and performance. BRAVO!

[@mrjones29]

It's still shocking to learn that this magnificent film and legendary film score didn't even get nominated for the 1960 Academy Awards??? Had it been though and it would have been swallowed whole by the even better film in "Ben Hur". But the musical score that Ben Hur" also won the Oscar for, I'd have given it to North by Northwest composer Bernard Herrmann - had it been nominated in the first place. Shocking and the Academy really did hate Hitchcock and his films.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

The Academy rarely picks "The Best" of anything. There are exceptions though.

[@bunkyman8097]

I LOVE the dissonance and how the rhythms play against themselves. Very incongruous pieces of a puzzle that create an apporpriate, harmonious whole. Total genius to my ear!

[@stephenborchelt8946]

This is a sensational presentation of one of Bernard Herrmann's best Hitchcockian themes!

[@DavidCieplicki]

I happened to watch North by Northwest on a recent flight. A great movie with a score like no other. How difficult to write and master this piece of music. The excitement and bewilderment within the movie and score go hand in hand. Tremendous.

[@fimucite]

Thank you very much for commenting. We totally agree with your opinion. A great movie with a B.S.O. at its height.

[@susangreene9662]

I watch this video all the time. Love to watch the conductor. He appears to be having a ball!

[@fimucite]

😂Thanks very much, Susan!! It really is!

[@benjiakre-hill5961]

Masterpiece.

[@richf7402]

Wow!

[@samarparmar5926]

North by Northwest mother of all bond movies B h music superb

[@kpete9219]

My family and I were watching North by Northwest yesterday and I, as always, was fascinated by the music. I have the soundtrack on CD and it is a GREAT CD. The beauty of the music on the CD is that the snippets of the songs played during the movie are played in full on the CD. However, I had never seen any of it performed by an orchestra. This is FANTASTIC!!!! The orchestra performed this flawlessly and it will be one of my favorites up to my leaving this life. Thank you for uploading this song. It further enlarges the performances of film music that I already have enjoyed via FSO, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and others. I await new entries as the years go by.

[@charliestanley2749]

Absolutely wonderful and timeless !!

[@desdemonadragon653]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW :D

[@clydeblair9622]

Excellente.

[@philpasteris8973]

Are the principal trumpet and trombone sitting next to each other? That is normal protocol. Love the chromatic scale in the flutes near the end. First rate performance. Wow!

[@tnator3542]

Chaotically Awesome!

[@IsraHell1976]

Brutal

[@kedarbhave4631]

I❤it

[@boneeatingsilicate580]

Incredible performance..have a crush on the Trombonist!

[@vincentdyer9592]

Outstanding Tenerife symphony orchestra.

[@tdirtyatl]

[@jhelmerp]

Hellishly difficult to play, bravo!

[@kevinfahey5240]

A great concert opener to bring the crowds to their seats

[@regisgoat]

Sensational! Bravo!

[@stephenbroad3008]

Wow....fantastic

[@thomasvinelli]

This shows how great these players really are. The time they put into learning there instrument . To end up playing in a symphony orch, is the big time for them.

[@folkertteveldemmenniederla7274]

I love it

[@island007100]

The tempo started too fast, making a difficult piece even tougher. Kudos to the musicians for pulling it off.

[@fimucite]

Are you sure...?, apart from being another performance that depends directly from the conductor, please, take a look to the original scene (from minute 1:01): kzbin.info/www/bejne/f528Zp6Xj6hlhJI

[@kirsteni.russell5903]

This is the tempo on the soundtrack, but the soundtrack music was recorded in a studio, not a concert hall, and the instruments were miked so that the music is right "in your face"--no reverb. There IS reverb in a concert hall, which is why this overture is usually played slower in concert.

[@pbrucpaul]

@@fimucite I was in the movie theater watching and listening to this back in 1959. The tempo was a little slower and those theater speakers brought out the bass percussion , but No fuss. This is a very good rendition. The coordination is Spot-on terrific

[@wyup]

I agree it's at times too fast and I feel intruments step a bit sometimes on each other's tempo, due to so many syncopations. But it's enjoyable as it adds to the frenzy character!

[@SallySallySallySally]

@@fimucite Yes, the tempo here is about 10% faster that Herrmann's original score in both the opening credits and the drunk driving scene you cite.

[@StevieRomano]

Conductor chugged like 3 red bulls before going on stage.

[@agump35]

Bravo!

[@fimucite]

Thank you!!

[@trippytrellis7033]

The conductor is so animated. I love it!!😷

[@gregpoore2757]

Its a bit fast but who cares? Brilliant!

[@pjd4268]

That..was the hottest i've ever heard that played...fantastic.

[@tootsie5052]

WOW!!! That's intense!!

[@TheCarnivalguy]

“And we’re filming and recording this so please; I implore your cooperation in keeping any loud and unnecessary sounds to a minimum. Thank you to everyone here”. Very loud cough as the director turns to the orchestra. (There’s always gonna be that one!). 🙄. 😂 This was totally outstanding and a great homage to the genius of Herrmann.

[@deloysterns]

Props to the person who is doing all the switching between the cameras

[@kirsteni.russell5903]

I imagine the conductor was determined that the orchestra play that fandango as fast as Herrmann does on the soundtrack! But you need a movie recording studio to get the sound right.

[@Reginald-rr1gh]

I love this! Cans of Red Bull for everyone!

[@gregpoore2757]

P s. The Beatles used to fly through their own concerts. Paul said he "Well, all that adrenaline you know ".

[@gramirez72]

❤️

[@gregpoore2757]

It may be a bit fast but it doesn't matter! Herrman varied his tempo too when he was conducting. Thats the way the conductor heard it and its awesome. Why complain about it?

[@joiedevie3901]

A brilliant performance although the speed of the playback seems a little fast. Hermann's own arrangement is so beautifully intense, which at times seems conversational between the sections and then intensely competitive as they layer on top of each other to crescendo. A masterpiece. More than any other producer, Hitchcock understood sound as integral to his films as his star actors or cinematography. Another remarkable film that shows his deliberate and thoughtful use of sound is The Birds, which has no music at all and was.his calculated move to have the sound of the birds' wings and cries punctuate that surreal film and draw the viewer into its surreal proposition. In North by Northwest, the story would not be half as compelling without this theme. The fact that it can be repeated so faithfully from the film's opening across so many of its scenes, establishing the pace of the movie so masterfully, is a testament to the creative genius of both men.

[@fimucite]

Dear Joie, thank you so much for your fantastic feedback. Maestro Diego Navarro, film music composer and FIMUCITÉ director, added to this stunning performance so much energy and passion. The piece, as written by Herrmann in the score is a “Spanish Fandango”. The “Fandango” is a typical genre (palo), of flamenco. The most famous folk music from Andalucía, in the south of Spain. Navarro, who is from Spain, gave his performance the power and passion of this genre, including the tempo a Spanish fandango has to follow. Very much looking forward receiving more feedbacks from you in our channel!

[@soupy1]

Was the director afraid to hold a clip cut over 2 seconds?

[@ameymulay1718]

Exactly like the original soundtrack!

[@adsomuch]

A little bit faster than the original, to my ears... I prefer the original.

[@robbit4butterfly]

Starts too fast, but blasts wonderfully through my imagination. I wish I was there to experience that live!

[@marcparella]

When you take it fast you lose the suspense. It is now a chase scene instead of hide-and-seek. Listen to the original.

[@josephososkie3029]

OMG who set this tempo?????

[@kevinbyrne4538]

6 percussionists.

[@Phd0628]

Little faster than original ?

[@MichaSchlechtriem]

The Tempo is correct and the performance a great one.

[@dougn2350]

I don't hear any lion roar. Where's the lion roar?

[@phillipleconte3715]

imagine if Hitchcock had actually thanked Herrmann at the AFI Awards

[@brucekuehn4031]

And every composer he worked with and each cameraman and screenwriter as well as the leading actors and actresses? And what other movie director honored by the AFI has ever thanked that many people?

[@bryanherman1868]

1:36

[@FifthContinentMusic]

A trifle fast. Fine performance nonetheless.

[@christiangoumard4542]

Le pied!

[@SallySallySallySally]

Still enjoyable despite the harm from the overly-fast tempo.

[@dreamlandnightmare]

I like the faster tempo. Gives it an appropriately more frantic feel.

[@aurahyel4700]

Way too fast. The conductor has not observed the tempi markings in the score.

[@quagfiend]

That's exactly how the score had been written for this perfomance. It's a Fan Dan Go version of the Main Theme.

[@fimucite]

Are you sure...?, apart from being another performance that depends directly from the conductor, please, take a look to the original scene (from minute 1:01): kzbin.info/www/bejne/f528Zp6Xj6hlhJI

[@kirsteni.russell5903]

This is the tempo on the soundtrack, but the soundtrack music was recorded in a studio, not a concert hall, and the instruments were miked so that the music is right "in your face"--no reverb. There IS reverb in a concert hall, which is why this overture is usually played slower in concert.

[@washo2222]

You are correct. This performance is way too fast. I studied a photostat copy of the full score and looked at the Main Title. Although the tempo is marked Allegro Vivace e con Bravura there is no marking on what note gets the beat. In 3/8 meter the note that gets the beat is the dotted quarter. The first eight bars of the piece covers 5 seconds of music or five seconds of film which is 300 frames (60 frames per second.) I had to figure out the math when I performed this with the university orchestra when I was recording music for my dissertation to get the accuracy of the Main Title pulse. The dotted quarter receives a metronome marking of 88 which by compound time standards is an Allegro and close to Allegro Vivace. The scene being referred to below for us to look at into 1:10 is the drunk driving scene which is slightly faster at MM= 92 which is still within the realms of Allegro Vivace The tempo in this concert performance I clocked at 3 seconds per 8 measures which would make the metronome marking somewhere in the 120 beats. That is faster than what the composer had intended.

[@hayden1188]

A pedantic nit-picking comment. Bernstein conducting Sibelius's 5th slows it down, lets the music breathe. Bernard Herrmann conducting Ralph Vaughan Williams's 49th Parallel slows the tempo down and produces a wonderful performance. This performance turns up the tempo and it works.. It's gutsy, full of enthusiasm, energy, edginess and excitement. Just like the film.

[@TB1M1]

too fast

[@chestnut1974]

Too fast!

[@JonathanSao]

to fast

[@dianecarone2629]

Im sorry but the tempo is just too fast.

[@chel3SEY]

Great score but awful video with its very annoying fast cuts.

[@ve022]

Too quick

[@jslasher1]

A very difficult work to perform. I doubt if Benny would have applauded this less than ideal performance. A world-class orchestra with a conductor like Dudamel, Rattle or Salonen would be ideal.

[@PlatoCave]

Hair raising.