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Work: Psycho Suite for Strings

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ComposerHerrmann, Bernard (1911-1975)
PeriodEarly 20th century
Year1960
Work typeOrchestral
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ZurichCinema Paradiso mit Ksenija Sidorova

© Michel Bumann ZKO
Rota, Bacalov, Herrmann, Satie, Tiersen, Shostakovich
Zurich Chamber Orchestra; Daniel Bard; Ksenija Sidorova
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Piatti Quartet: cinema without the moving pictures in Sheffield

Piatti Quartet © Olwen Holland

Is there a difference between music composed for films and music used in films? Can the former have a life beyond film? The Piatti Quartet looks for answers.

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Bartók meets Hitchcock: the music of horror and the night

It takes artistic courage to devote almost a whole concert to music associated with cinema, but then Richard Tognetti, the artistic director and concert master of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, never lacked creative thinking or musical audacity. 
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The Tippett Quartet's Canadian debut redeems the time

This concert by England’s Tippett Quartet, their debut in Canada, was about time. The Quartet came together in 1998, the year of the passing of their namesake, Sir Michael Tippett. Their first musical offering of the afternoon was Tippett’s Fifth and final String Quartet (1991), with Anna Smith filling in for Jeremy Isaac on second violin.
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