The Night of Film Music

My friend Juergen sent me files of "The Night of Film Music 2006", a radio program where over three hours several German orchestras played live in Bavaria a lot of soundtrack themes.

http://rapidshare.com/files/2242483/01_Nacht_der_Filmmusik_2006.mp3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/2242496/02_Nacht_der_Filmmusik_2006.mp3.html http://rapidshare.com/files/2241799/03_Nacht_der_Filmmusik_2006.mp3.html http://rapidshare.com/files/2239736/04__Nacht_der_Filmmusik_2006.mp3.html

It's moderated in German, but there's a lot of music to hear, including music of German productions. It starts with a big band version of the "Tatort"-theme (Klaus Doldinger), the longest running German TV crime series. Featured are short interviews with several composers like Ernst Brandner and Rolf Wilhelm, who are also played with some of their finest symphonic music by the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

On the program I had expected the 5.867.675 version of a badly-played "Star Wars", but instead we get rare and unreleased German symphonic film music. It has quite a compositional level, and hearing the various tracks it's no wonder that Hans Zimmer isn't around here anymore - the music presented is more on par with Newman and Rozsa than with synthesizer drones.

Many thanks to Juergen for providing these great files !!!