Herrmann’s Echoes for String Quartet, composed in 1965, is a single-movement work of introspection and quiet intensity. Its slow pacing and hauntingly lyrical lines create a somber, reflective atmosphere, with muted dynamics and delicate...

“To orchestrate is like a thumbprint. I can’t understand having someone else do it. It would be like someone putting color to your paintings.” Musically precocious, Bernard Herrmann (b. 1911, New York City; d.1975, North Hollywood)...

Herrmann, for all his Angst, was a New Yorker born and bred. His Sinfonietta was composed in 1936, just before his film career took off. It contains what Steven Smith, Herrmann's biographer, describes as ''a quality dissonant Interlude''. Many years...