Release Date: 03 January 2006
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313276820
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: SALON ORCHESTRA FAVOURITES, VOL. 4
Description
Salon Orchestra Favourites, Vol. 4German Hit Songs of the 1930s German history of the 1930s has many sad and dismal chapters,from the world economic crisis at the beginning of the decade, to theunleashing of the Second World War at the end. And yet, in such a period ofcrisis and catastrophe German light music won world-wide prestige and has beenable to continue in popularity even to the present. Particular luminaries of thegenre were Werner Richard Heymann, Peter Kreuder and Gerhard Winkler.In the end it was a coincidence that the introduction oftalkies into the cinema came at the same time as the slump. The then stillrelatively small Warner Brothers film company had launched the first talkie onthe market in 1926/1927 to avert impending bankruptcy. In 1929 the first talkiein Germany appeared. Werner Richard Heymann was one of the first to conquerthis new field of activity in the service of UFA, the most important Germanfilm company and also the most successful. Already in 1930 Heymann wrote probablyhis most famous evergreens for Die Drei von der Tankstelle (The Threefrom the Filling Station), among them 'Liebling, mein Herz la?ƒt Dich gr???ƒen' (Darling, my heart greets you). There thenfollowed hits for 'Liebeswalzer' (Love Waltz), 'Der Kongress tanzt' (Congress Dances),Ein blonder Traum (A Fair Dream, 1932) featuring 'Irgendwo auf der Welt'(Somewhere in the World) and Der Sieger (The Conqueror, 1932) featuring'Es f??hrt kein anderer Weg zur Seligkeit' (There Is No Other Way To Happiness).In quick succession came music for fifteen films, based,almost always, on texts by Robert Gilbert (1899-1978), son of the successfulcomposer Jean Gilbert. In 1933, however, there was no longer a place for Heymannand Gilbert. The National Socialist racial madness banished the successful duobecause of their Jewish origin. They both emigrated and eventually reached Hollywood. There up to 1950 Heymann wrote music for 44 films, the best known of which issurely Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotschka (1939) with Great Garbo in thetitle-r??le. In 1950 Heymann returned again to Germany, but was no longer ableto recapture his earlier success.One of the most dazzling figures of the genre is certainlyPeter Kreuder, infant prodigy, composer of inexhaustible inspiration and world-famouspianist. He gave his first public concert at the age of six at the G??rzenich in Cologne and at thirteen obtained his first position as chorus repetiteur atthe Hamburg Stadttheater. Thereafter his life took two courses: on the one handhe shone in more than four thousand concerts in 39 countries and left more thantwo thousand recordings; on the other his creative power as a composer broughtan opera, several operettas and musicals, scores for 188 films and hundreds ofhits.Peter Kreuder lived for his music, even when, from 1933, hewas taken up by the National Socialists. For the most part there were harmlesslittle films to which his evergreens added lustre. 'Sag beim Abschied leise Servus' (Bid a gentl
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
