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1. Psycho: Prelude
2. Psycho: The City
3. Psycho: Marion
4. Psycho: Marion And Sam
5. Psycho: Temptation
6. Psycho: Flight
7. Psycho: The Patrol Car
8. Psycho: The Car Lot
9. Psycho: The Package
10. Psycho: The Rainstorm
11. Psycho: Hotel Room
12. Psycho: The Window
13. Psycho: The Parlour
14. Psycho: The Madhouse
15. Psycho: The Peephole
16. Psycho: The Bathroom
17. Psycho: The Murder
18. Psycho: The Body
19. Psycho: The Office
20. Psycho: The Curtain
21. Psycho: The Water
22. Psycho: The Car
23. Psycho: The Swamp
24. Psycho: The Search
25. Psycho: The Shadow
26. Psycho: Phone Booth
27. Psycho: The Porch
28. Psycho: The Stairs
29. Psycho: The Knife
30. Psycho: The Search
31. Psycho: The First Floor
32. Psycho: Cabin 10
33. Psycho: Cabin 1
34. Psycho: The Hill
35. Psycho: The Bedroom
36. Psycho: The Toys
37. Psycho: The Cellar
38. Psycho: Discovery
39. Psycho: Finale

発売日：2017年7月31日(月)
レーベル：Unicorn

レビュー (Amazon)
This much-anticipated follow up to Joel McNeely's award-winning disc of Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo (also available on Varese Sarabande) is yet another landmark in recorded film music. From the opening stabbing chords in the double basses to the unresolved sotto voce suspensions, Herrmann's music for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) is one of the most justifiably famous scores in the literature. In order to complement John Russell's stark cinematography, Herrmann elected to create a monochromatic, "black and white" score for strings only. His strident, contrapuntal "Prelude" is the perfect embodiment of nervous energy and paranoia. After this tense opening Herrmann directs the listener into a false sense of security via languid, quasi-lyrical compositions such as "The City" and "Marion And Sam". The composer revives the previous tension through the deployment of Marion's guilt motif ("Temptation"), but the score's shocking coalescence of psychology and horror reaches its apotheosis in the notorious shower scene, scored by Herrmann with extreme high-range violin glissandos ("The Murder"). Though the music is undeniably chilling, there is also an underlying beauty that informs this material. Conductor McNeely recreates the nuances and tempos with unflinching precision, offering a reading that surpasses every previous recording of this complex masterwork. --Kevin Mulhall

1. Prelude
2. The City
3. Marion
4. Marion and Sam
5. Temptation
6. Flight
7. Patrol Car
8. The Car Lot
9. The Package
10. The Rainstorm
11. Hotel Room
12. The Window
13. The Parlor
14. The Madhouse
15. The Peephole
16. The Bathroom
17. The Murder
18. The Body
19. The Office
20. The Curtain
21. The Water
22. The Car
23. Cleanup
24. The Swamp
25. The Search
26. The Shadow
27. Phone Booth
28. The Porch
29. The Stairs
30. The Knife
31. The Search (B)
32. The First Floor
33. Cabin 10
34. Cabin 1
35. The Hill
36. The Bedroom
37. The Toys
38. The Cellar
39. Discovery
40. Finale

発売日：1997年7月29日(火)
品番：VSD-5765
レーベル：Varese Sarabande

レビュー (Amazon)
Much has been made of composer Bernard Herrmann's choice to use only razor-sharp, slashing strings for his score to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And heaven knows it works like a dream (or a nightmare), the music feeling as edgy and colorless as the noir-ish black-and-white photography. But as noticeably effective as the knife-screeching violins are in the famous shower scene (followed by those deadly blows from the basses and cellos), they work just as powerfully--though perhaps not as noticeably--all throughout the picture. Herrmann evokes dread and tension with just a few notes, or captures Janet Leigh's flighty panic in pizzicato as she hits the fateful road to the Bates Motel after impulsively stealing a large sum of money from her employer. --Jim Emerson