Die Nibelungen

The film director Fritz Lang cast Gottfried Huppertz (1887-1937) in several of his films before asking him to write the original score for 'Die Nibelungen' (1924), which he composed using the shooting script as a silent libretto. It was Huppertz s first major project and his mastery of orchestration is nothing short of remarkable. Huppertz wrote in a lush, late-Romantic idiom. With 'Die Nibelungen', he evokes Wagner's take on Teutonic mythology through a highly lyrical and orchestrally expansive score that resists being imitative. The music echoes Wagner without attempting to mimic it. At the same time, Huppertz s musical language resembles Alexander von Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker, Walter Braunfels and Eugene D Albert. As one of the first composers of serious music for the screen, Huppertz s importance for elevating film music to the status of art is hard to exaggerate. Though he died in 1937, after scoring seven subsequent films, including Lang s 1927 masterpiece 'Metropolis', his influence is clearly felt in the film scores work of Korngold, Waxman and Max Steiner. The present 4-CD-set offers Huppertz s complete original score for Lang s 'Die Nibelungen', in total four and a half hours of music, performed by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony) under the baton of Frank Strobel, Germany s leading film music conductor.

Disc 1
1: Titelmusik
2: In Der Waldschmiede Mimes
3: Vor Der Schmiede Mimes
4: Gang in Der Konigsburg
5: Inneres Des Doms - Vor Der Schmiede Mimes
6: An Der Drachenquelle
7: Kampf Siegfried - Drache
8: Lindenzweig - Singender Vogel - Bade Im Blut - Lindenblatt
9: Halle Der Burgunden
10: Waldwiese - Alberich Und Siegfried
11: Tropfsteinhohle
12: Nibelungenhort
13: Halle Und Burgbrucke Der Burgunden
14: Kemenate Kriemhilds - Falkentraum
15: Bankettsaal Zu Worms
16: Die Burg Brunhilds
17: Saal Brunhilds
18: Vor Dem Tor Der Burg
19: Der Kampfplatz
20: Der Wettkampf Brunhild - Gunther

Disc 2
1: Das Rheintal - Konigsschiff Brunhilds
2: Burghof Vor Dem Dom
3: Im Dom
4: Alter Thingplatz - Hagen, Siegfried, Gunther
5: Schlafgemach Kriemhilds
6: Halle Der Burgunden
7: Kampf Gunther - Brunhild
8: Zug Der Maultiere
9: Halle Der Burgunden - Schlafgemach Kriemhilds
10: Burggarten - Kriemhild Und Siegfried
11: Burgbrucke Und Halle Der Burgunden - Kriemhild Und Siegfried
12: Vor Der Schatzhalle - Halle Der Burgunden
13: Kemenate Brunhilds
14: Vor Dem Dome - Konfrontation Kriemhild - Brunhild
15: Vor Der Schatzhalle - Burghof
16: Kemenate Brunhilds
17: Halle Der Burgunden
18: Kemenate Kriemhilds - Burghof
19: Burgbrucke - Kemenate Kriemhilds
20: Hochwald - Waldsee - Jagd
21: Die Quelle
22: Der Lagerplatz - Wettkampf
23: Quelle - Tod Siegfrieds
24: Schlafgemach Kriemhilds - Burghof
25: Kemenate Kriemhilds - Kriemhild Erkennt Siegfrieds Tod
26: Kemenate Brunhilds
27: Kemenate Kriemhilds - Kriemhilds Schwur
28: Im Dom

Disc 3
1: Titelmusik
2: Die Gruft Siegfrieds - Der Bankettsaal Zu Worms
3: Vor Der Grabkapelle Siegfrieds - Schatzhalle
4: Halle Der Burgunden
5: Kemenate Kriemhilds - Halle Der Burgunden
6: Schatzhalle - Rheinufer - Kemenate Kriemhilds
7: Waldquelle
8: In Der Gruft Siegfrieds
9: Burghof
10: Hunnen-Hugelkuppe - Weite Ebene - Zug Kriemhilds
11: Saal Der Etzelburg
12: Vor Der Etzelburg
13: Saal Der Etzelburg
14: Zeltlager Etzels
15: Lied Des Werbel
16: Ankunft Des Blaodel
17: Gemach Kriemhilds in Der Etzelburg
18: Brachland - Hunnen - Kleiner Hugel - Kinder-Ringelreihen
19: Gemach Kriemhilds in Der Etzelburg
20: Kemenate Kriemhilds, Hunnenland - Halle Zu Bechlarn
21: Zelt Gunthers - Schlafgemach Kriemhilds - Ritt Der Hunnen
22: Hof Der Etzelburg - Einzug Der Burgunden
23: Kleines Gemach Auf Der Etzelburg - Kriemhild Fordert Einlosung Von Etzels Schwur
24: Kellerraum
25: Hof Der Etzelburg

Disc 4
1: Saal Der Etzelburg
2: Saal Der Knechte
3: Saal Der Etzelburg - Mauer - Saal Der Knechte
4: Werbels Tanz - Saal Der Etzelburg - Kleines Gemach in Der Etzelburg
5: Werbels Tanz - Saal Der Etzelburg
6: Saal Der Knechte - Messertanz - Kampf - Der Verrat
7: Saal Der Etzelburg - Tod Des Kindes
8: Saal Und Hof Der Etzelburg
9: Rache Der Hunnen - Beginn Des Kampfs - Gemach Etzels
10: Hunnendorfstrasse - Etzelburg
11: Saal Und Galerie Der Etzelburg
12: Giselher - Kriemhild
13: Gemach Dietrichs Von Bern
14: Etzelburg - Kampf
15: Hof Der Etzelburg - Gemach Etzels
16: Saal Und Hof Der Etzelburg - Rudiger Erschlagt Giselher
17: Kampf Zwischen Rudiger Und Volker
18: Kriemhild Auf Dem Turm - Hof Der Etzelburg
19: Etzelburg - Fire Blight
20: Gemach Etzels - Saal Der Etzelburg
21: Volkers Gesang
22: Treppe Der Etzelburg

Composer: Gottfried Huppertz

Number of Discs: 4

Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

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