Thank you very much, Nikitos.
This track is quite different from the other Schneider you posted before.
The arrangements for strings maintain the personality Schneider.
Plot
The film is based on a very successful novel of recent years, written by Austrian writer, Robert Schneider. It tells the story of a man torn between his love for a woman and the musical genius that consumes him. Schneider is a novelist and playwright who had won numerous prizes for Schlafes Bruder, including the prestigious Robert Musil Prize of the City of Vienna and the French Prix de Medici. The book has been translated into 24 languages. Schneider also wrote the screenplay. Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier, the film features the richly-detailed production design of Oscar-winner Rolf Zehetbauer.
Vilsmaier recreates life in a remote alpine village at the turn of the 19th century where Elias Johannes Alder is born. The boy possesses a luminous musical gift which is seared into his soul at the moment of his birth. This power frightens and fascinates the villagers of Eschberg except for Peter, Elias' only friends.
The two boys spend clandestine nights in the town church, where Elias spontaneously creates masterful pieces on the church organ. When Elsbeth, Peter's sister, is born, Elias is drawn to a lake where all the sounds of the universe crash in on him in a powerful and terrifying epiphany. He emerges bound both physically and spiritually to Elsbeth and mysteriously connected to the timbres and frequencies of the world around him.
As the three grow older, their consuming passions become tragically intertwined with jealousy and loyalty, culminating in a destructive rage which tears the village apart. For Elias, love, like music has finally become an act of fevered, exquisite madness.
Schlafes Bruder is a film of haunting intensity and sweeping romanticism. Vilsmaier tells the story of Elias with a startling acuity that melds the harsh realism of this isolated hamlet with a profound mysticism that is both poetic and brutal. This film is an unforgettable blend of rapturous, exalted music, palpable visual images, and a cast that seems transported from another world and time.
Reviews
Forget everything you've heard previously from Austrian Hubert von Goisern. The soundtrack to the Vilsmaier film has nothing, nothing at all to do with the music from the folk rocker until now. Here are found sound sequences, organ music and orchestral sounds which, at the first go, astonish and repel, but also achieve their impact even without having seen the film. An instrumental listening experience away from all current trends, but all the more impressive. ~ Aschaffenburger Stadtmagazin, Februar 1996
Schlafes Bruder is not just the name of the new film from Josef Vilsmaier, based on the novel by Robert Schneider, but also the title of the soundtrack by and with Hubert von Goisern, developed under energetic collaboration with Norbert J. Schneider. The film stars on 5th October in more than 200 German cinemas, the premiere in Austria was around a month ago, and there Schlafes Bruder stands at number 1 in the cinema charts. The now released film music is only identical in part to the original soundtrack. It has been partly re-recorded and mixed by Wolfgang Spannberger and Klaus Strazicky, as well as some parts being extended. ~ Musik Markt, 23. Oktober 1995
"Yeah, who says now that the dissolution last year was just a promotion gag?" some people will probably now be thinking. But far from it, although "Hubert von Goisern" is written in big letters on the CD case, Schlafes Bruder has very little in common with the Goiserer's Alpinkatzen time. There are indeed alpine sounds in this film music, but he holds back with the rock. Rather more, there are worlds of sound without vocals. Von Goisern has an excellent grasp, like a painter, of how to portray whole landscapes with his music, which are at times dark and sad, in the next moment monumental and at the same time oppressive, enormously emotionally charged. ~ Blizzards CD-Kiste, 1995
Performers
The score for Schlafes Bruder was written by Hubert von Goisern and Norbert J. Schneider. Harald Feller was responsible for all the organ passages e.g. Track 12 -
Der letzte Wille des Elias Alder (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bQJ1jBFSpJw#!"_blank)<br />
On these tracks Hubert provided vocals and the acoustics and also played the flute and the archaic drum. Norbert J. Schneider was responsible for all the electronic keyboard instruments as well as the strings and the wind arrangements for the members of the Munich Philharmonic (whom he conducted). Matthias Loibner played the barrel organ and former Alpinkatzen members Wolfgang Maier and Sabine Kapfinger played the toms and sang respectively.
More Info in Hubert von Goisern - Schlafes Bruder (
http://www.hubertvongoisern.com/en/film/schlafes.html)
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