wimpel69
11-14-2016, 01:09 PM
Please request the FLAC link in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
This is my own rip (BD-Audio to FLAC). Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation! Limited sharing period!
This is the complete Hans Erdmann score, as reconstructed and recorded by Berndt Heller
with the Sinfonieorchester des Saarl�ndischen Rundfunks for the 2007 restoration of the
Murnau classic. Unlike the abridged version that was released by RCA in their "100 Years of Film Music",
this 94 minute complete score does not include Heinrich Marschner's overture to "Der Vampyr".
I have cut the Erdmann score into eight parts to make it more manageable. These parts do not
follow the individual movie "acts", but were created purely on musical grounds.
F. W. Murnau's landmark vampire film Nosferatu isn't merely a variation on Bram Stoker's Dracula: it's a direct steal, so much
so that Stoker's widow went to court, demanding in vain that the Murnau film be suppressed and destroyed. The character names
have been changed to protect the guilty (in the original German prints, at least), but devotees of Stoker will have little trouble
recognizing their Dracula counterparts. The film begins in the Carpathian mountains, where real estate agent Hutter (Gustav von
Wagenheim) has arrived to close a sale with the reclusive Herr Orlok (Max Schreck). Despite the feverish warnings of the local
peasants, Hutter insists upon completing his journey to Orlok's sinister castle. While enjoying his host's hospitality, Hutter accidently
cuts his finger-whereupon Orlok tips his hand by staring intently at the bloody digit, licking his lips. Hutter catches on that Orlok is
no ordinary mortal when he witnesses the vampiric nobleman loading himself into a coffin in preparation for his journey to Bremen.
By the time the ship bearing Orlok arrives at its destination, the captain and crew have all been killed-and partially devoured.
There follows a wave of mysterious deaths in Bremen, which the local authorities attribute to a plague of some sort. But Ellen,
Hutter's wife, knows better. Armed with the knowledge that a vampire will perish upon exposure to the rays of the sun, Ellen
offers herself to Orlok, deliberately keeping him "entertained" until sunrise. At the cost of her own life, Ellen ends Orlok's reign
of terror once and for all. Rumors still persist that Max Schreck, the actor playing Nosferatu, was actually another, better-
known performer in disguise. Whatever the case, Schreck's natural countenance was buried under one of the most repulsive
facial makeups in cinema history-one that was copied to even greater effect by Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake -
Nosferatu the Vampyre.
Music Composed by
Hans Erdmann
Played by the
Sinfonie-Orchester des Saarl�ndischen Rundfunks
Conducted by
Berndt Heller
Hans Erdmann, F.W. Murnau.
"The film composer Hans Erdmann (1882-1942) was born as Hans Thimotheos Erdmann Guckel in Breslau.
He first studied violin, composition and music theory, afterwards he worked as a concertmaster at the Schauspielhaus Breslau.
His artistic career was interrupted by World War I where he served as a soldier. After the war, Erdmann worked at the
theaters in Riga and Jena where he was able to continue his musical passion again.
At the beginning of the 1920s he came in touch with the film business and he wrote his first compositions for cinema
performances. His most popular film composition came into being for the German silent movie classic "Nosferatu" ('22)
directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau with Max Schreck in the leading role.
Despite these successes Hans Erdmann stopped working on film compositions; instead he worked for different
magazines as an editor, among them the magazines "Filmtechnik", the "Reichsfilmblatt" as well as the magazine
"Film - Ton - Kunst", where he reviewed the background music of silent movies by other composers.
With his engagement at the conservatory in Berlin in the field "Akademie f�r Filmmusik" from 1928 he became an
important teacher of film music. He gave numerous young composers an understanding of the medium.
Only from 1930 Hans Erdmann again wrote film scores, first for short movies like "Urwaldsymphonie" ('30)
and "M�ndiges Volk" ('31), finally he wrote the film scores for the feature films "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse" ('33)
directed by Fritz Lang with Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Diessl, Rudolf Sch�ndler and Theo Lingen and "August der Starke" ('36)
directed by Paul Wegener with Michael Bohnen, Lil Dagover, Marieluise Claudius and Franz Schaftheitlin."
Source: Eureka "Masters of Cinema", UK (BD Audio, 2-channel stereo LPCM)
Format: FLAC(RAR) 16-44, DDD Stereo
File Size: 509 MB (incl. the deluxe BD booklet (English only!))
All albums in the RCA "100 Years of Film Music" Series
Film Noir: Concert Suites of Music by Adolph Deutsch, Franz Waxman, Frederick Hollander & Max Steiner - Thread 211261
Im Kampf mit dem Berge (In Sturm und Eis): A Silent Film Score by Paul Hindemith - Thread 210588
The Lubitsch Touch: Music for Silent Films by Karl-Ernst Sasse - Thread 211542
High Noon: The Film Music of Dimitri Tiomkin - Thread 211329
Charles Chaplin: The Film Music, conducted by Carl Davis - Thread 212562
Metropolis: The Gottfried Huppertz Score* - Thread 211429
Sergei Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible (arr. Stasevich) - Thread 212697
Paul Dessau: Music for the Alice Comedies & The Magic Clock - Thread 212649
Winfried Zillig: Panamericana (Traumstrasse der Welt), 2 CDs - Thread 212135
Franz Waxman: Sayonara, Hemingway's Adventures, A Place in the Sun, Taras Bulba - Thread 211974
Max Steiner: The Adventures of Mark Twain - E.W. Korngold: The Prince and the Pauper - Thread 211090
Charles Koechlin: The Seven Stars Symphony, etc - Thread 212997
and contributed by user tri2061990:
Hans Erdmann: Nosferatu (The Silent Film Score) - Thread 164859
alternatively, my own:
Hans Erdmann: Nosferatu - The Complete Score (BD to FLAC rip) - Thread 211967
* never released: This is based on my rip of the then-complete film on DVD.
Please request the FLAC link in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
This is my own rip (BD-Audio to FLAC). Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation! Limited sharing period!
This is my own rip (BD-Audio to FLAC). Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation! Limited sharing period!
This is the complete Hans Erdmann score, as reconstructed and recorded by Berndt Heller
with the Sinfonieorchester des Saarl�ndischen Rundfunks for the 2007 restoration of the
Murnau classic. Unlike the abridged version that was released by RCA in their "100 Years of Film Music",
this 94 minute complete score does not include Heinrich Marschner's overture to "Der Vampyr".
I have cut the Erdmann score into eight parts to make it more manageable. These parts do not
follow the individual movie "acts", but were created purely on musical grounds.
F. W. Murnau's landmark vampire film Nosferatu isn't merely a variation on Bram Stoker's Dracula: it's a direct steal, so much
so that Stoker's widow went to court, demanding in vain that the Murnau film be suppressed and destroyed. The character names
have been changed to protect the guilty (in the original German prints, at least), but devotees of Stoker will have little trouble
recognizing their Dracula counterparts. The film begins in the Carpathian mountains, where real estate agent Hutter (Gustav von
Wagenheim) has arrived to close a sale with the reclusive Herr Orlok (Max Schreck). Despite the feverish warnings of the local
peasants, Hutter insists upon completing his journey to Orlok's sinister castle. While enjoying his host's hospitality, Hutter accidently
cuts his finger-whereupon Orlok tips his hand by staring intently at the bloody digit, licking his lips. Hutter catches on that Orlok is
no ordinary mortal when he witnesses the vampiric nobleman loading himself into a coffin in preparation for his journey to Bremen.
By the time the ship bearing Orlok arrives at its destination, the captain and crew have all been killed-and partially devoured.
There follows a wave of mysterious deaths in Bremen, which the local authorities attribute to a plague of some sort. But Ellen,
Hutter's wife, knows better. Armed with the knowledge that a vampire will perish upon exposure to the rays of the sun, Ellen
offers herself to Orlok, deliberately keeping him "entertained" until sunrise. At the cost of her own life, Ellen ends Orlok's reign
of terror once and for all. Rumors still persist that Max Schreck, the actor playing Nosferatu, was actually another, better-
known performer in disguise. Whatever the case, Schreck's natural countenance was buried under one of the most repulsive
facial makeups in cinema history-one that was copied to even greater effect by Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake -
Nosferatu the Vampyre.
Music Composed by
Hans Erdmann
Played by the
Sinfonie-Orchester des Saarl�ndischen Rundfunks
Conducted by
Berndt Heller
Hans Erdmann, F.W. Murnau.
"The film composer Hans Erdmann (1882-1942) was born as Hans Thimotheos Erdmann Guckel in Breslau.
He first studied violin, composition and music theory, afterwards he worked as a concertmaster at the Schauspielhaus Breslau.
His artistic career was interrupted by World War I where he served as a soldier. After the war, Erdmann worked at the
theaters in Riga and Jena where he was able to continue his musical passion again.
At the beginning of the 1920s he came in touch with the film business and he wrote his first compositions for cinema
performances. His most popular film composition came into being for the German silent movie classic "Nosferatu" ('22)
directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau with Max Schreck in the leading role.
Despite these successes Hans Erdmann stopped working on film compositions; instead he worked for different
magazines as an editor, among them the magazines "Filmtechnik", the "Reichsfilmblatt" as well as the magazine
"Film - Ton - Kunst", where he reviewed the background music of silent movies by other composers.
With his engagement at the conservatory in Berlin in the field "Akademie f�r Filmmusik" from 1928 he became an
important teacher of film music. He gave numerous young composers an understanding of the medium.
Only from 1930 Hans Erdmann again wrote film scores, first for short movies like "Urwaldsymphonie" ('30)
and "M�ndiges Volk" ('31), finally he wrote the film scores for the feature films "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse" ('33)
directed by Fritz Lang with Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Diessl, Rudolf Sch�ndler and Theo Lingen and "August der Starke" ('36)
directed by Paul Wegener with Michael Bohnen, Lil Dagover, Marieluise Claudius and Franz Schaftheitlin."
Source: Eureka "Masters of Cinema", UK (BD Audio, 2-channel stereo LPCM)
Format: FLAC(RAR) 16-44, DDD Stereo
File Size: 509 MB (incl. the deluxe BD booklet (English only!))
All albums in the RCA "100 Years of Film Music" Series
Film Noir: Concert Suites of Music by Adolph Deutsch, Franz Waxman, Frederick Hollander & Max Steiner - Thread 211261
Im Kampf mit dem Berge (In Sturm und Eis): A Silent Film Score by Paul Hindemith - Thread 210588
The Lubitsch Touch: Music for Silent Films by Karl-Ernst Sasse - Thread 211542
High Noon: The Film Music of Dimitri Tiomkin - Thread 211329
Charles Chaplin: The Film Music, conducted by Carl Davis - Thread 212562
Metropolis: The Gottfried Huppertz Score* - Thread 211429
Sergei Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible (arr. Stasevich) - Thread 212697
Paul Dessau: Music for the Alice Comedies & The Magic Clock - Thread 212649
Winfried Zillig: Panamericana (Traumstrasse der Welt), 2 CDs - Thread 212135
Franz Waxman: Sayonara, Hemingway's Adventures, A Place in the Sun, Taras Bulba - Thread 211974
Max Steiner: The Adventures of Mark Twain - E.W. Korngold: The Prince and the Pauper - Thread 211090
Charles Koechlin: The Seven Stars Symphony, etc - Thread 212997
and contributed by user tri2061990:
Hans Erdmann: Nosferatu (The Silent Film Score) - Thread 164859
alternatively, my own:
Hans Erdmann: Nosferatu - The Complete Score (BD to FLAC rip) - Thread 211967
* never released: This is based on my rip of the then-complete film on DVD.
Please request the FLAC link in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
This is my own rip (BD-Audio to FLAC). Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation! Limited sharing period!
