Camera... Action!: German Silverscreen Classics – The Vintage Arrangements Cologne New Philharmonic Swing Orchestra & Volker Hartung

• 1 Truxa Fox (Aus Truxa) 03:15
• 2 Ich küsse lhre Hand, Madame (Tango) [Aus Ich küsse lhre Hand, Madame] 02:33
• 3 Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt (Aus Der blaue Engel) 04:04
• 4 Es war einmal ein Musikus (Tango) 02:38
• 5 In der Nacht ist der Mensch nicht gern alleine (Aus Die Frau meiner Träume) 02:53
• 6 Das Karussell dreht sich nur immer rundherum (Aus Karneval der Liebe) 02:02
• 7 Schöne Argentina (Paso Doble) 02:40
• 8 Die Nacht ist nicht allein zum Schlafen da (Aus Tanz auf dem Vulkan) 02:14
• 9 Junger Mann im Frühling (Aus Polterabend) 02:44
• 10 Schließe deine Augen und träume (Aus Ehe in Dosen) 05:37
• 11 Kauf dir einen bunten Luftballon (Aus Der weiße Traum) 03:55
• 12 Von Acht bis um Acht (Foxtrott) 02:53
• 13 Goodbye, Johnny (Aus Wasser für Canitoga) 04:24
• 14 Große Eile (Foxtrott) 02:08
• 15 Da capo (Foxtrott) 04:19
• 16 Karneval in Sevilla (Paso Doble) 06:14
• 17 Wie hab' ich nur leben können ohne Dich? (Aus Ich und die Kaiserin) 04:00
• Total Runtime 58:33

Info for Camera... Action!: German Silverscreen Classics – The Vintage Arrangements

If watching a motion picture, few of us are consciously aware of the important role of the music soundtrack accompanying the storyline.

If the composer and the music director have done a good job, music is blending in with the other elements of the film. However, if the film music were missing, we would notice this after a while. How many of todays film buffs have ever heard of Bernard Herrmann or Max Steiner, or knowing something about their work? What a poor impression would the screening of ‘Gone With the Wind’ from 1939 make without Max Steiner's wonderful music score and 'Tara's Theme'! What would 'The Student of Prague' (1925) or 'Bel Ami' (1940) have been without the fascinating musical direction of Theo Makkeben?

In recent years more attention has been paid to the great-but-little-known film music composers whose films we have heard about. Many of these under-appreciated musicians came from Austria or Germany. Vienna, in particular, was home to the likes of Gold, Korngold, Loewe. Film composers as for example Ger- hard Winkler, Franz Grothe, Theo Mackeben, Friedrich Schröder, Franz Doelle came from Berlin. So did other artists, who made a vital contribution to the German Film Art and Entertainment output. Almost all composers listed here also wrote ’classical’ non-cinematic musical compositions - including operas, symphonies, concertos, and other musical forms. But this is another story. …

Cologne New Philharmonic Swing Orchestra
Volker Hartung, conductor

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