Bernard Herrmann first explored the dramatic use of music to support emotional content and meaning beneath dialog in his mid 1930's orchrstral works he called "Meldrams". These early works were fundamental to his subsequent development as a composer of dramatic underscore for radio, television, and film.
New Discovery Recordings presents a new digital recording of "The City of Brass" in which "the full resources of the symphony orchestra are employed to set the background, to intensify the emotional context, and to amplify your subconscious reaction by tonal color and dynamics. In this highly complex type of musical treatment meaning and story are subordinated to the sound values of the poet's words and the orchestra's voices."
Here is some video of rehearsals... Hear the final versions in higher than CD quality audio at: https://newdiscovery.bandcamp.com/
