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Eisler: Film Music / Kalitzke, Berlin Radio Symphony
Capriccio

Eisler: Film Music / Kalitzke, Berlin Radio Symphony

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Details

Composer
EISLER, HANNS
Artist
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Kallitzke
Format
CD
Label
Capriccio
Released
Mar 03, 2017
Catalog #
C5289
UPC
845221052892

About

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

Tracklist 22 tracks

  1. 1 Main Title 01:39
    Track
    1
    Title
    Main Title
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  2. 2 Forword and Landscape and Hradcin - Hitler Picture 01:30
    Track
    2
    Title
    Forword and Landscape and Hradcin - Hitler Picture
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  3. 3 Heydrich Hospital 00:14
    Track
    3
    Title
    Heydrich Hospital
    Duration
    00:14
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  4. 4 Love Scene 02:07
    Track
    4
    Title
    Love Scene
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  5. 5 400 Millionen: Praeludium: Andante con moto (Main Title and Finale) 03:25
    Track
    5
    Title
    400 Millionen: Praeludium: Andante con moto (Main Title and Finale)
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  6. 6 400 Millionen: Variationen über ein marschartiges Thema, "Der lange Marsch" 07:52
    Track
    6
    Title
    400 Millionen: Variationen über ein marschartiges Thema, "Der lange Marsch"
    Duration
    07:52
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  7. 7 400 Millionen: Scherzo 02:25
    Track
    7
    Title
    400 Millionen: Scherzo
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  8. 8 No. 1. Andante 03:58
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 1. Andante
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  9. 9 No. 2. Allegro 04:31
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 2. Allegro
    Duration
    04:31
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  10. 10 No. 3. Kleine Passacaglia 01:51
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 3. Kleine Passacaglia
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  11. 11 No. 4. Presto 01:05
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 4. Presto
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  12. 12 No. 5. Finale: Improvisation 04:24
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 5. Finale: Improvisation
    Duration
    04:24
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  13. 13 Exodus 02:08
    Track
    13
    Title
    Exodus
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  14. 14 Death 02:37
    Track
    14
    Title
    Death
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  15. 15 Allegro con spirito 01:46
    Track
    15
    Title
    Allegro con spirito
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  16. 16 Larghetto - Allegro 02:11
    Track
    16
    Title
    Larghetto - Allegro
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  17. 17 Largo 02:24
    Track
    17
    Title
    Largo
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  18. 18 I. Thema mit variationen 05:07
    Track
    18
    Title
    I. Thema mit variationen
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  19. 19 II. Allegro assai - Sostenuto 02:00
    Track
    19
    Title
    II. Allegro assai - Sostenuto
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  20. 20 III. Invention 01:59
    Track
    20
    Title
    III. Invention
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  21. 21 IV. Allegro 02:29
    Track
    21
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  22. 22 Hörfleissübung 02:36
    Track
    22
    Title
    Hörfleissübung
    Duration
    02:36
    Composer
    Hanns Eisler
    Ensemble
    Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke