wimpel69
02-15-2013, 12:12 PM
Morton Gould's Emmy Award-winning Holocaust remains one of the finest Hollywood scores
written for television. Unfortunately, the original soundtrack vinyl never made it onto CD (AFAIK), but
Gould extracted a concert suite in six movements from the score, and he later arranged that
same suite for symphonic band. I have included both versions in this upload.
Also featured is Norman Dello Joio's score for Victory through Air Power, which he composed
for a series of TV documentaries. Again, the composer himself extracted the concert suite
recorded on the Koch CD.
The Koch CD I uploaded to this forum before, but I'm sure that the link therein is as dead as the dodo. ;)
Enjoy!
Morton Gould: "Holocaust Suite"
I. Main Theme
II. Kristallnacht
III. Berta and Joseph's Theme
IV. Babi Yar
V. Warsaw Ghetto Surrender & Finale
VI. Epilogue - Elegy
Music Composed by
Norman Dello Joio
Morton Gould
Played by
The Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by
David Amos
Music Composed by
Morton Gould
Timothy Miles
Thomas Bourgault
Lawrence Siegel
Played by the
University of New Hampshire Wind Symphony
With David Ripley (bass-baritone)
Conducted by
Andrew Boysen Jr.
"Holocaust is an American television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network.
The series tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the (fictional) Weiss family of German Jews and
that of a rising member of the SS, who gradually becomes a merciless war criminal. Holocaust highlighted numerous
important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish
ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. Although the miniseries won several awards and received critical
acclaim, it was criticized by some, including noted Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel, who described
it as "untrue and offensive."
Holocaust was produced by Robert Berger, and was filmed on location in Austria and West Berlin. It was broadcast
in four parts from April 16 to April 19. The series was popular, earning a 49% market share; it was also received
well in Europe.
The nine and a half hour program starred Fritz Weaver, Meryl Streep, James Woods and Michael Moriarty, as well
as a large supporting cast. It was directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, a veteran of many television specials, including
ABC's highly successful miniseries Roots, which first aired in 1977. The teleplay was written by novelist-producer
Gerald Green, who later adapted the script into a novel.
A German Jewish family, the Weisses, consists of Dr. Josef Weiss (Fritz Weaver), the father; Berta Weiss
(Rosemary Harris), the mother and talented pianist; Karl Weiss (James Woods), an artist who is married to a
Christian woman named Inga Helms-Weiss (Meryl Streep); Rudi Weiss, an independent, rebellious soccer player;
Anna Weiss (Blanche Baker), the young daughter; and Moses Weiss (Sam Wanamaker), Joseph's brother and a
chemist from Warsaw. Throughout the series, each member of the Weiss family experiences hardships and are
ultimately led to a terrible fate, with the exception of Rudi and Inga.
Dr. Weiss is a respected doctor (GP) from Berlin. After losing his right to treat "Aryan" patients, he is deported
to Poland for being a foreign citizen. He becomes a member of the Judenrat (Jewish council) for the Warsaw ghetto.
Josef is sent to Auschwitz along with his wife for attempting to save Jews from the Warsaw ghetto's liquidation
process. At Auschwitz, he is assigned to road labor for Uncle Kurt (of Erik Dorf; see below), who is trying to save
several Jews by having them work for him. Uncle Kurt then is punished for using Jews when he shouldn't have and
the Jews on his crew (including Josef) are all sent to the gas chambers.
Mrs. Berta Weiss, after her husband's deportation, survives with the help of Inga and her family. She is later deported
to the Warsaw ghetto to be reunited with Josef. Berta then obtains a job teaching at the school before eventually
being sent to the gas chamber (at Auschwitz).
Anna Weiss, unresponsive after being raped by German soldiers earlier in the series, is sent to a sanitarium and
killed by carbon monoxide poisoning as part of the Nazi Action 14f13.
Karl Weiss is arrested and sent to Buchenwald. Later, a family friend of Inga's, Heinz Muller, has Karl transferred
to Theresienstadt where he works in the art studio. He and the other artists secretly make pictures depicting the
reality of the Ghetto. When the pictures are discovered, the artists are tortured by the SS and all but Karl die.
Karl is then (after hearing of his wife's pregnancy) transferred to Auschwitz and put on the Sonderkommandos,
he finds out that both of his parents were taken to Auschwitz. Subsequently, Karl's health deteriorates badly
and he dies the day Auschwitz is liberated.
Rudi Weiss, having run away from Berlin, goes to Czechoslovakia, where he meets Helena Slomova (Tovah Feldshuh).
They escape together to the Ukraine where they fight for years with Jewish partisans, led by Uncle Sasha, a doctor
who lost his family earlier in the war. After fighting against SS and Ukrainian soldiers, Rudi is ultimately captured,
and Helena is shot and killed. Rudi wakes up in Sobibor where he meets Leon Feldhandler and Alexander Pechersky
and escapes, during the uprising. Rudi decides to travel alone back through Europe and find his family.
Moses Weiss owns a pharmacy in Warsaw. When Josef and the Lowys are deported, he finds a place for them to
stay. Like his brother, he is put on the Judenrat. After hearing that the SS are planning to kill all Jews in Europe,
he starts a resistance movement. This movement fights against the SS in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, after
receiving weapons from Christian Poles. They are initially successful, but the SS discovers their secret hiding places
and uses gas to force them to walk out and face the wall, where they are all shot.
Karl's wife, Inga, eventually sacrifices her freedom to join him in Theresienstadt where he is commissioned as an artist.
Desperately trying throughout most of the series to reach Karl in various camps, Inga can only get letters through
to him if she performs sexual favors for Heinz Muller. Threatening to keep her husband involved in heavy physical
work if she does not acquiesce to his requests, the SS sergeant rapes her. After arriving at Theresienstadt to
reunite with Karl, Inga becomes pregnant with his child. A fellow artist sells Karl's paintings of horrific concentration
camp scenes, the Gestapo finds them, tortures the artists and when Karl refuses to aid the Nazi investigation,
he is sent to Auschwitz.
At the end of the series, Rudi meets Inga in the liberated Thresienstadt, later revealing that he found out what
happened to his parents and Karl at Auschwitz. Inga reveals that despite Karl telling her not to, she had the baby
and named him Josef (after her father-in-law). Inga decided to take her child back to Berlin, to reunite with her
family. The fate of Rudi is unknown at the denouement of the series, but he is offered a job smuggling orphaned
Jewish children into Palestine. The series ends with Rudi playing football with Greek children.
Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), a lawyer from Berlin, is another major character in the series. At the urging of his
ambitious wife, Marta, the apolitical Dorf joins the SS after failing to find alternative employment. Dorf is put in
charge of major extermination operations at Nazi extermination camps; coordinating mass murder burdens his
conscience at first, but over time he becomes more and more ruthless in the name of "following orders". After the
war ends, he is captured by the United States Army, and told that he will be tried for war crimes. Dorf decides
to follow the example of many other Nazi officials and commits suicide by taking a cyanide pill."
Source: Koch Schwann, Mark CDs (my rips!)
Format: mp3, 320k/s (CBR), DDD Stereo
[B]Holocaust (& Dello Joio, Air Power) - https://mega.co.nz/#!K9oQBZoI!QCW4iEtb36Qz3EY8NTfqoTqLHpp5RXy1DT_pMjt QFNw
Holocaust (version for band) - https://mega.co.nz/#!TtIFHa4S!NJggWipCaB02lkuxrEJ47TeInDIGdRu0Yh2gXtK jepo
Please don't ask for lossless!
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the originals! :)
And a word of "Thanks" never hurt anyone! ;)
written for television. Unfortunately, the original soundtrack vinyl never made it onto CD (AFAIK), but
Gould extracted a concert suite in six movements from the score, and he later arranged that
same suite for symphonic band. I have included both versions in this upload.
Also featured is Norman Dello Joio's score for Victory through Air Power, which he composed
for a series of TV documentaries. Again, the composer himself extracted the concert suite
recorded on the Koch CD.
The Koch CD I uploaded to this forum before, but I'm sure that the link therein is as dead as the dodo. ;)
Enjoy!
Morton Gould: "Holocaust Suite"
I. Main Theme
II. Kristallnacht
III. Berta and Joseph's Theme
IV. Babi Yar
V. Warsaw Ghetto Surrender & Finale
VI. Epilogue - Elegy
Music Composed by
Norman Dello Joio
Morton Gould
Played by
The Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by
David Amos
Music Composed by
Morton Gould
Timothy Miles
Thomas Bourgault
Lawrence Siegel
Played by the
University of New Hampshire Wind Symphony
With David Ripley (bass-baritone)
Conducted by
Andrew Boysen Jr.
"Holocaust is an American television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network.
The series tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the (fictional) Weiss family of German Jews and
that of a rising member of the SS, who gradually becomes a merciless war criminal. Holocaust highlighted numerous
important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish
ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. Although the miniseries won several awards and received critical
acclaim, it was criticized by some, including noted Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel, who described
it as "untrue and offensive."
Holocaust was produced by Robert Berger, and was filmed on location in Austria and West Berlin. It was broadcast
in four parts from April 16 to April 19. The series was popular, earning a 49% market share; it was also received
well in Europe.
The nine and a half hour program starred Fritz Weaver, Meryl Streep, James Woods and Michael Moriarty, as well
as a large supporting cast. It was directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, a veteran of many television specials, including
ABC's highly successful miniseries Roots, which first aired in 1977. The teleplay was written by novelist-producer
Gerald Green, who later adapted the script into a novel.
A German Jewish family, the Weisses, consists of Dr. Josef Weiss (Fritz Weaver), the father; Berta Weiss
(Rosemary Harris), the mother and talented pianist; Karl Weiss (James Woods), an artist who is married to a
Christian woman named Inga Helms-Weiss (Meryl Streep); Rudi Weiss, an independent, rebellious soccer player;
Anna Weiss (Blanche Baker), the young daughter; and Moses Weiss (Sam Wanamaker), Joseph's brother and a
chemist from Warsaw. Throughout the series, each member of the Weiss family experiences hardships and are
ultimately led to a terrible fate, with the exception of Rudi and Inga.
Dr. Weiss is a respected doctor (GP) from Berlin. After losing his right to treat "Aryan" patients, he is deported
to Poland for being a foreign citizen. He becomes a member of the Judenrat (Jewish council) for the Warsaw ghetto.
Josef is sent to Auschwitz along with his wife for attempting to save Jews from the Warsaw ghetto's liquidation
process. At Auschwitz, he is assigned to road labor for Uncle Kurt (of Erik Dorf; see below), who is trying to save
several Jews by having them work for him. Uncle Kurt then is punished for using Jews when he shouldn't have and
the Jews on his crew (including Josef) are all sent to the gas chambers.
Mrs. Berta Weiss, after her husband's deportation, survives with the help of Inga and her family. She is later deported
to the Warsaw ghetto to be reunited with Josef. Berta then obtains a job teaching at the school before eventually
being sent to the gas chamber (at Auschwitz).
Anna Weiss, unresponsive after being raped by German soldiers earlier in the series, is sent to a sanitarium and
killed by carbon monoxide poisoning as part of the Nazi Action 14f13.
Karl Weiss is arrested and sent to Buchenwald. Later, a family friend of Inga's, Heinz Muller, has Karl transferred
to Theresienstadt where he works in the art studio. He and the other artists secretly make pictures depicting the
reality of the Ghetto. When the pictures are discovered, the artists are tortured by the SS and all but Karl die.
Karl is then (after hearing of his wife's pregnancy) transferred to Auschwitz and put on the Sonderkommandos,
he finds out that both of his parents were taken to Auschwitz. Subsequently, Karl's health deteriorates badly
and he dies the day Auschwitz is liberated.
Rudi Weiss, having run away from Berlin, goes to Czechoslovakia, where he meets Helena Slomova (Tovah Feldshuh).
They escape together to the Ukraine where they fight for years with Jewish partisans, led by Uncle Sasha, a doctor
who lost his family earlier in the war. After fighting against SS and Ukrainian soldiers, Rudi is ultimately captured,
and Helena is shot and killed. Rudi wakes up in Sobibor where he meets Leon Feldhandler and Alexander Pechersky
and escapes, during the uprising. Rudi decides to travel alone back through Europe and find his family.
Moses Weiss owns a pharmacy in Warsaw. When Josef and the Lowys are deported, he finds a place for them to
stay. Like his brother, he is put on the Judenrat. After hearing that the SS are planning to kill all Jews in Europe,
he starts a resistance movement. This movement fights against the SS in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, after
receiving weapons from Christian Poles. They are initially successful, but the SS discovers their secret hiding places
and uses gas to force them to walk out and face the wall, where they are all shot.
Karl's wife, Inga, eventually sacrifices her freedom to join him in Theresienstadt where he is commissioned as an artist.
Desperately trying throughout most of the series to reach Karl in various camps, Inga can only get letters through
to him if she performs sexual favors for Heinz Muller. Threatening to keep her husband involved in heavy physical
work if she does not acquiesce to his requests, the SS sergeant rapes her. After arriving at Theresienstadt to
reunite with Karl, Inga becomes pregnant with his child. A fellow artist sells Karl's paintings of horrific concentration
camp scenes, the Gestapo finds them, tortures the artists and when Karl refuses to aid the Nazi investigation,
he is sent to Auschwitz.
At the end of the series, Rudi meets Inga in the liberated Thresienstadt, later revealing that he found out what
happened to his parents and Karl at Auschwitz. Inga reveals that despite Karl telling her not to, she had the baby
and named him Josef (after her father-in-law). Inga decided to take her child back to Berlin, to reunite with her
family. The fate of Rudi is unknown at the denouement of the series, but he is offered a job smuggling orphaned
Jewish children into Palestine. The series ends with Rudi playing football with Greek children.
Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), a lawyer from Berlin, is another major character in the series. At the urging of his
ambitious wife, Marta, the apolitical Dorf joins the SS after failing to find alternative employment. Dorf is put in
charge of major extermination operations at Nazi extermination camps; coordinating mass murder burdens his
conscience at first, but over time he becomes more and more ruthless in the name of "following orders". After the
war ends, he is captured by the United States Army, and told that he will be tried for war crimes. Dorf decides
to follow the example of many other Nazi officials and commits suicide by taking a cyanide pill."
Source: Koch Schwann, Mark CDs (my rips!)
Format: mp3, 320k/s (CBR), DDD Stereo
[B]Holocaust (& Dello Joio, Air Power) - https://mega.co.nz/#!K9oQBZoI!QCW4iEtb36Qz3EY8NTfqoTqLHpp5RXy1DT_pMjt QFNw
Holocaust (version for band) - https://mega.co.nz/#!TtIFHa4S!NJggWipCaB02lkuxrEJ47TeInDIGdRu0Yh2gXtK jepo
Please don't ask for lossless!
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the originals! :)
And a word of "Thanks" never hurt anyone! ;)