Quartet Records, in collaboration with Cinevox, presents a remastered CD reissue of Pino Donaggio‘s terrific suspense score for Dario Argento’s DO YOU LIKE HITCHCOCK? (2005)

The film is about Giulio, a film student whose passion for the films of Hitchcock will take him to the site of a grisly murder. Obsessed with his beautiful neighbor Sasha, Giulio is distraught to learn that the girl’s mother was slain in a gruesome murder that would fit in a Hitchcock thriller. Knowing that Sasha didn’t like her overprotective mother, and that she had just seen STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, our hero deduces that she made a switch and had someone else commit the murder—but this also means that she will kill someone in return. Giulio launches a VERTIGO-inspired investigation on the streets of Turin and is shocked to learn that he was wrong—it was another Hitchcock film that inspired the plot! Can you guess which one?

Filled with dozens of references to REAR WINDOW, STRAGERS ON A TRAIN, DIAL M FOR MURDER, VERTIGO and MARNIE, Dario Argento’s pastiche is a nice exercise from the giallo maestro, exercising his skills while paying homage to his favorite director.

Pino Donaggio’s score (his third for the director) is an exciting blend of Herrmann-inspired suspense, interspersed with seductive siren-like vocals for scenes of voyeurism. Performed by the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Natale Massara, Donaggio’s music for DO YOU LIKE HITCHCOCK? is one of his best scores in the genre that brought him many adoring film music fans.

This CD includes the entire Donaggio score, but whereas the previous 2013 edition was mastered from a DAT with 2-track mixes prepared for a cancelled 2005 album (with some anomalies), this time we started with the stereo mixes engineered by Marco Streccione from the original master tapes transferred in high resolution, carefully edited and mastered by Chris Malone and approved by the composer, presenting the music in greater detail. The new package includes the original liner notes written by our much-missed friend Gergely Hubai. -QUARTET RECORDS

1. Prologue 5:29
2. Peeping Eyes 1:38
3. Rainy Night 4:59
4. Bloody Hammer 3:48
5. Young Lovers 1:00
6. Runaway in the Rain 3:10
7. Try and Kill 1:00
8. Window on the Yard 2:57
9. The Yard 2:26
10. Wrong Key 0:59
11. The Funeral 1:16
12. Friends Can Kill 3:29
13. Quotation 1:53
14. Homage to Hitchcock 1:12
15. The Staircase 3:15
16. The Lift 2:09
17. Suspected 1:25 18. Look Down the Street 3:16
19. Bad Dream 1:03
20. Back on the Crime Scene 4:27
21. The Roof 3:42
22. Madness and Sensuality 1:56
23. Exercise 0:56
24. Hollywood Memorabilia 2:08

Total Disc Time: 60:33