Oh, straight from the heavens! What marvelous, extraordinary news! Just when I thought it couldn't possibly get any better with the announcement of the three unreleased Nino Rota scores, here comes the absolute best soundtrack release of the year. This is one of Herrmann's most beautiful, exciting, booming, thematic, touching, and extraordinarily romantic scores. It's an excellent film too. BERNARD HERRMANN!!!! ON DANGEROUS GROUND!!!!

I'm ordering it right now!!!

Dylan

NP: "Blindness" from "On Dangerous Ground" (Herrmann)...for people who love Herrmann, this will be a godsend.

The music is wonderful. "Blindness" is probably my favorite track. After hearing the original performance of "The Death Hunt," I think I prefer Gerhardt's version slightly. The wicked fast music in the "Prelude" is amazing. Hints to other Herrmann scores to come are mixed throughout his music on this album.

The outtakes are very amusing and I love it when FSM puts these goodies on their discs. On this album we get to hear Herrmann "instructing" the musicians and a sound engineer. He does it in his famous way that's far from the most graceful or professional way possible.

It's so sad that time has allowed this great recording to survive only in its current condition, but anybody who loves Herrmann shouldn't ignore it.