The Fall of the House Usher (1928)

Jean Epstein (1897–1953) was one of the most significant representatives of the French avant-garde cinema of the 1920s and 1930s, and undoubtedly his most famous film is The Fall of the House of Usher, which was made in 1928 based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe. The work, considered groundbreaking in its time and still uniquely impactful today, has a score composed by Charlie Barber (1949-), an English composer. The film music exists in three different versions, and the version arranged for soprano saxophone and string quartet is the one we will hear.