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I am happy to have been included in your final list among such excellent company.
Michael M.
I'm sure you're not looking for "notes" here, but may I say, your "Walking Distance" is terrific, and in one word, authentic. You captured it.
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Is there a separate thread devoted this New Discovery material?
I had never heard of them until very recently. Now I visit a website filled with fine new Herrmann recordings I had no idea existed, many of which I'm tempted to buy.
Is there any kind of documentation with the downloads? Are there reviews? I didn't find any via google. Why is an app needed? I'd like to see more discussion and info about the recordings and musicians if there is any.
Hi,
New Discovery Recordings is currently releasing one new rare Bernard Herrmann track at the beginning of each month. Your support helps us continue to do so. The next release is "Your Loving Son, Nero" a Crime Classics radio show that has been the subject of the last several months. This will be the final Crime Classics (for a while at least) and we move on to larger orchestral works again in January 2021. Stay tuned!
The recordings are available on Bandcamp but you don't need the app to download or listen. All the recordings can be listened to completely for free in full 24bit/96khz quality (higher than CD quality) and the downloads are the same quality. Please use your own ears and judgement to review them.
There are some short liner notes on some of the recordings and the musicians are named on many of them (those that feature some instruments). The Hollywood Studio Orchestra is a LA based group of musicians assembled especially to record. I am the conductor.
I hope you enjoy the recordings and add them to your collection!
Michael McGehee
https://newdiscovery.bandcamp.com/
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New Discovery Recordings is currently releasing one new rare Bernard Herrmann track at the beginning of each month. Your support helps us continue to do so. The next release is "Your Loving Son, Nero" a Crime Classics radio show that has been the subject of the last several months. This will be the final Crime Classics (for a while at least) and we move on to larger orchestral works again in January 2021. Stay tuned!...
Michael McGehee
https://newdiscovery.bandcamp.com/
I'll definitely be following your projects with great interest. Thanks for the recordings!
One question... with all the recent talk generally of how difficult it is to fund orchestral re-recordings, and labels' attempts to raise funds via Kickstarters etc, how is it that you are able to produce recordings of larger orchestral works without the financial benefit of sales via CD etc?
Thank you for your interest. Our latest recording was released today (Dec 1, 2020) and is available at: https://newdiscovery.bandcamp.com/track/your-loving-son-nero
Our orchestra consists of 42 musicians and was sized based upon the radio orchestras that Herrmann used. The Crime Classics series uses only 3 or 4 musicians as Herrmann scored them for varying individual groups. Our next series will be utilizing the the full orchestra once again and the first release will be in January.
We chose to release digitally only at this time but may choose to release on CD later. This enables the ability to release monthly which would not be feasible (yet) in CD form.
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Thank you for your interest. Our latest recording was released today (Dec 1, 2020) and is available at: https://newdiscovery.bandcamp.com/track/your-loving-son-nero
Excellent.
Is there a reason this latest addition to the Crime Classics recordings hasn't been designated a number (Like, say, Vol.3 No.4) in keeping with all the others?
I'll definitely be buying some of these this week.
Isn't it more fun if there are some mysteries in life? 
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I just watched The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "You'll Be the Death of Me," and Herrmann's score is very much in the style of "Walking Distance."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394106/?ref_=fn_ep_tt_2
It's also prominent and in the foreground for much of the show, starting when Pilar Seurat gets into the story after about the first act. I kept thinking, Howard would love this.  On top of that, it was a good episode as such.
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--but I've been able to watch it a couple times here even though I'm not a member. Commercial breaks, beware:
