Eisler: Film Music / Kalitzke, Berlin Radio Symphony

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Label
Capriccio
Release Date
March 3, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      EISLER, HANNS
    • PERFORMER
      Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Kallitzke
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 03, 2017
    • UPC
      845221052892
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      C5289
    • LABEL
      Capriccio
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Main Title

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    2. Forword and Landscape and Hradcin - Hitler Picture

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    3. Heydrich Hospital

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    4. Love Scene

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    5. 400 Millionen: Praeludium: Andante con moto (Main Title and Finale)

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    6. 400 Millionen: Variationen über ein marschartiges Thema, "Der lange Marsch"

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    7. 400 Millionen: Scherzo

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    8. No. 1. Andante

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    9. No. 2. Allegro

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    10. No. 3. Kleine Passacaglia

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    11. No. 4. Presto

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    12. No. 5. Finale: Improvisation

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    13. Exodus

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    14. Death

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    15. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    16. Larghetto - Allegro

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    17. Largo

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    18. I. Thema mit variationen

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    19. II. Allegro assai - Sostenuto

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    20. III. Invention

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    21. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

    22. Hörfleissübung

      Composer: Hanns Eisler

      Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

      Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke


Austrian composer Hanns Eisler is best known for composing the national anthem of the German Democratic Republic, for his long partnership with Bertolt Brecht, and for his film scores. His promising career in Hollywood, however, was interrupted by the Cold War. Film studio bosses blacklisted his music, and he was subjected to two interrogations by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Despite efforts by his American musical powerhouse friends Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, he was deported in 1948. In addition to the Oscar-nominated score for Fritz Lang’s film “Hangmen Also Die,” this release contains other rarely heard works by Hanns Eisler, in which the special interpretation that this pupil of Schoenberg had developed of the twelve-tone technique plays an astonishingly important role for the field of film and orchestral music.

REVIEWS:

Eisler's music bears the stamp of a modern original. Thankfully, recordings of his works are far more plentiful than they once were. The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Johannes Kalitzer do the honors for these works and their dedication gives us what sound to be very fitting performances, spirited and detailed.

-- Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

The composer wrote the first book on composing for film and treated the craft as an art in its own right. His score to Hangmen Also Die was nominated for a 1942 Oscar. The Grapes of Wrath is an alternative score to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, which was being filmed at the time by John Ford with music by Alfred Newman. Eisler’s work, with a searing twelve-tone lament, is infinitely preferable. And then there is a serialist score for Joris Ivens’s Maiost propaganda film, The 400 Million, again a work of uncompromising power. Beautifully played. We really need to hear more Eisler.

-- Musical Toronto