Various composers

Beyond Vertigo

Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble

Label: Antarctica
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917738124

Catalog number: AR 081
Releasedate: 06-02-26

- a rare focus on film composers writing “beyond cinema” that shows how major film composers expand creatively when freed from narrative constraints.
- a unified program revealing the “classical inner life” of legendary film composers. Not a crossover album, but an artistic statement showing these composers’ pure musical identities.
- previous album Zayt Gezunterheyt (AR 054) received much press attention. In American Record Guide: "Hendrikx leads with a smooth tone, excellent technique, and graceful phrasing; and his colleagues complement him with also proficient and expressive performances.” 

When film composers turn to classical music, they shed a straitjacket rather than lose a safety net. In his Metamorfosi di Violetta, Ennio Morricone dissects the unravelling of La Traviata’s heroin with filmic acuity. Tigran Mansurian’s Agnus Dei oscillates between chant and dissonance to evoke unresolved grief. John Corigliano’s Soliloquy turns inward even further, transforming private loss into quiet radiance. Bernard Herrmann never sought classical abstraction, yet Hitchcock’s musical alter ego – the composer of the Psycho and Vertigo scores – provides this program’s pièce de résistance: Souvenir du voyage, a nostalgic gem with profound cinematic sensibility.