REVIEW: BBC SSO The Sound of Hitchcock – City Halls, Glasgow

The BBC SSO have teamed up with Radio 3 to present a special edition of Sound of Cinema featuring the music from the movies of Alfred Hitchcock.

Matthew Sweet presents music from Franz Waxman, Dmitri Tiomkin, Miklos Rozsa and Bernard Herrmann linked with some enlightening background facts about Hitch and his composers, all lead by US born composer and conductor Timothy Brock (a specialist in concert performances of early 20th Century silent movie scores).

This is a fantastic celebration of an often overlooked genre of music, but what this performance perfectly exemplifies just how memorable this so-called background music is. It only takes a few bars from the score of Dial M for Murder, Vertigo, and of course Psycho for the scenes to spring firmly to mind.

Beautifully performed and professionally presented, this evocative, unnerving, unsettling and utterly entertaining production is an absolute delight.

To be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on August 15th at 2pm