Edmund Meisel: Berlin - Sinfonie der Groástadt, original motion picture score

Edmund Meisel: Berlin - Sinfonie der Groástadt, motion picture score - Capr

Label: Capriccio
Catalog No: CAP 5067
Format: CD
Release Date: 2012-03-27
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 1 hr. 3 min.
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
UPC Code: 845221050676

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>Meisel, Edmund : Berlin
>     Die Sinfonie der Groástadt, film score

Notes & Reviews:

After the successful release of the Original Motion Picture Score Metropolis (C5066), another Masterpiece of the Stummfilm-Era is released. Again in cooperation with the German Television ZDF and ARTE, this movie is now completely restored with a newly recorded soundtrack from the original score by Edmund Meisel (1894-1930). Film music expert and conductor Frank Strobel delivers a full range and deep, impressive soundtrack with the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin for this release. Of previously released Metropolis: It's a wild, exhilarating ride, probably a bit over the top (like the film itself), but an irresistible wallow for anyone who enjoys the Strauss-Korngold idiom as much as I do. Frank Strobel leads a dynamic, impassioned performance that is played to near-perfection by the Berliners." - American Record Guide

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Konzertsaal Hardenbergstrasse (09/19/2007-09/22/2007).



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Meisel's Berlin
Conductor Frank Strobel certainly deserves credit for resuscitating this score. Just as they embraced Strobel’s recording of Metropolis, ardent students of film music will appreciate the significance of Meisel’s work. The score per se is unrelenting in its dissonance and metric irregularity, the perfect analog of Rittman’s film vision. Despite the passionate advocacy of the conductor et al, the result is not an unqualified success. Meisel’s writing is too interlinked with the film’s cutting and imagery to stand on its own independent of the visual element. Nevertheless this is worth investigating if only for its cultural importance. Good packaging and informative, albeit, syntactically labored liner notes.
Submitted on 07/13/12 by conway 
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>Meisel, Edmund : Berlin :: Die Sinfonie der Groástadt, film score
  • Conductor: Frank Strobel
  • Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • Running Time: 15 min. 34 sec.
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Form: Film Score
  • Written: 1927