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smidgin
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Just had an evening of music from the european section of my collection, and what gems there are! For those of you have'nt opened the door yet. Music from films you may never see, but such music!
The thrilling spine tingling score for GERMINAL. Jean-Louis Roques. Honegger's MAYERLING, and I still jump when I hear the pistol shot as indicated in the score, for the dual suicide of the Prince and his Love. The mystery and secret longings of THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS, suggested in the sensual Main Title by Badalamenti. Achingly beautiful themes composed by swedish composer, Hugo Alfven. The pounding vividly descriptive music, especially for the engine room in BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN! by Edmund Meisel. And oh! the unrestrained joy of VOYAGE EN BALLON by Jean Prodromides. Wistful,dreamy THE FISHERMAN by Hans-Erik Phillip. Karl-Ernst Sasse's magnum opus, SAXONY'S SPLENDOUR AND PRUSSIA'S GLORY, ravishing renaissance complete with Trumpet Voluntary's worthy of Georges Delerue! Rolf Wilhelm's gigantic score for DIE NIBELUNGEN! Villa Lobo's off centre, quirky, magical score FOREST OF THE AMAZON. Florenz Schmitt's SALAMMBO, a silent rarely shown film set in ancient Carthage. Mystery, and suspense! And finally, the irresistable themes composed by Franz Grothe, my favourite being the sparkling toe-tapping waltz for THE TRAPPE FAMILY. And so to bed. It's all out there, a treasury of wonderfull music, just waiting to be discovered, as I did so many years ago, and I still am!
posted 07-14-2001 04:13 PM PT (US) Scorehunter
Oscar® Nominee
by the way: do you know gottfried huppertz´ superb (but sadly unreleased) score to the silent-movie-version of "die nibelungen", an early filmmusic-masterpiece..not to forget his "metropolis"-score!
there are a few more scores from german cinema up to 1945 that are remarkable in quality, for example georg haentzschel´s "münchhausen", franz grothe´s "illusion" and hans erdmann´s "nosferatu".try these, you won´t regret it
posted 07-14-2001 05:22 PM PT (US) Lou Goldberg
Oscar® Winner
I have to agree about Munchausen. The score was re-recorded on Capriccio records but I'm not sure if it's still in print.I'd say good things about Herbert Windt scores too except that there is the un-PC aspect to it.
posted 07-14-2001 08:08 PM PT (US) JJH
Oscar® Winner
screw PC. Who is (or was) Herbert Windt?sounds like a German...
NP -- Junior, JNH
posted 07-14-2001 08:35 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB