wimpel69
01-29-2018, 04:03 PM
Please request the FLAC link in this thread. PM's will be ignored.
Cover & booklet included. This is my own album.
In 2010, Gottfried Huppertz' original film composition for Metropolis was newly recorded for the
presentation of the restored version of the film. The orchestra performed the music in synchronization with the
film. During post production, the synchronization was further refined and optimized during the music editing
process: the timing of certain passages was adjusted and musical transitions and pauses aligned to the moving
image in correspondence to the numerous synchronization points already marked in the score to achieve a precise
timing and the aspired interaction between the music and the film. In preparation for the issue of the complete
music for Metropolis, film-oriented gaps were closed, musical transitions cut appropriately and the
music mixed in close consultation with Maestro Frank Strobel.
The commercial album was released in January of 2018.
The previous reconstructed score of 2001/2003, which totals 117 minutes, I shared >here< (Thread 211429).
Music Composed by
Gottfried Huppertz
Played by the
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by
Frank Strobel
""The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would
have yielded upwards of 20 conventional features, more than half the studio's entire annual production budget. And if it didn't make a
profit at the time -- indeed, it nearly bankrupted the studio -- the film added an indelible array of images and ideas to cinema, and has
endured across the many decades since its release. Metropolis had many sources of inspiration, including a novel by the director's wife,
Thea von Harbou -- who drew on numerous existing science fiction and speculative fiction sources -- and Lang's own reaction to seeing
the Manhattan skyline at night for the very first time. There are some obvious debts to H.G. Wells (who felt it "the silliest of films"), but
the array of ideas and images can truly be credited to Lang and von Harbou. In the somewhat distant future (some editions say the year
2000, others place it in 2026, and, still others -- including the original Paramount U.S. release -- in 3000 A.D.) the city of Metropolis, with
its huge towers and vast wealth, is a playground to a ruling class living in luxury and decadence. They, and the city, are sustained by a
much larger population of workers who labor as virtual slaves in the machine halls, moving from their miserable, tenement-like homes to
their grim, back-breaking ten-hour shifts and back again. The hero, Freder (Gustav Froehlich) -- the son of Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel),
the master of Metropolis -- is oblivious to the plight of the workers, or any aspect of their lives, until one day when a a beautiful subterranean
dweller named Maria (Brigitte Helm) visits the Eternal Gardens, where he spends his time cavorting with various ladies, with a small group
of children from the workers' city far below. They are sad, hungry, and wretched looking, and he is haunted by their needy eyes -- something
Freder has never seen or known among the elite of the city -- and by this strange and beautiful woman who tells all who hear her, workers'
children and ruler's offspring, that they are all brothers. He follows her back down to the depths of the city and witnesses a horrible accident
and explosion in the machine halls where the men toil in misery. Haunted by what he has seen, he tries to confront his father, only to find
that the man he loves and respects believes that it is right for the workers to live the way they do, while he and his elite frolic in luxury.
Freder decides to do something about it, but he must first learn more, and also locate Maria. With help from Josaphat (Theodor Loos),
Fredersen's recently dismissed office manager, he goes below again and takes over the job of one of the workers, in order to find Maria.
Meanwhile, Fredersen is concerned about the rumblings of unrest among the workers, and his son's sudden interest in their plight;
he assigns "Slim" (Fritz Rasp), his investigator, to follow Freder. Meanwhile, he goes for advice to an old acquaintance, the inventor
C.A. Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge). Rotwang once was a rival to Fredersen for the love of the woman Hel, who married Fredersen and
died bearing his son, Freder. Rotwang still feels the loss, but he is a cunning and practical man, and is willing to help his old "friend,"
but not before showing off his latest creation -- a robot that he has modeled in the image of his beloved Hel, that he may have her again.
Rotwang answers Fredersen's question by taking him to the catacombs below the modern city, where they see Maria preaching the gospel
and counseling patience, in the hope that a "Mediator" -- who will be able to reconcile the "head" and "hands" of society (i.e. the ruling
and working classes) -- will come among them. Fredersen will hear none of it, and sees the need to break the workers' resistance and
destroy Maria's influence among them. He arranges with Rotwang to make his robot creation into a duplicate Maria (which requires his
kidnapping her), and to send her out among the workers to incite them to violence, so that Fredersen can use force against them.
But he doesn't reckon with Rotwang, who despises Fredersen and his ruling class, and has commanded the robot to obey his orders
and follow a plan that will destroy the city, both above and below ground. Fredersen also doesn't reckon with his own son Freder, who
not only believes in what Maria is preaching but is beginning to see himself as the "Mediator," and is right in the midst of the conflagration
when the workers' uprising starts. Soon, fires and floods spread, threatening to doom the children of the workers, abandoned in their
parents' frenzied attack on the machines, and the city of Metropolis faces an impending disaster of biblical proportions. Meanwhile,
the now-mad Rotwang tries to reclaim his lost Hel, and Maria and her evil robot twin are both stalked by crowds of workers driven to
a murderous rage. When it was premiered in Germany in January 1927, Metropolis ran 153 minutes when projected at 24 frames
per second. That complete version was heavily cut for release in America, removing a quarter of the movie -- this included the personal
conflict between Fredersen and Rotwang; a subplot involving double-dealing, espionage, and the mysterious "Slim"; a section taking
place in the "red-light" district of the city; a good deal of the symbolism in the movie's original dialogue; and a large chunk of the chase
at the end. In Germany in the spring of 1927, an edited version modeled roughly on the American edition, though running slightly longer,
was prepared and released, and that became the "standard" version of the movie, for both domestic (i.e. German) distribution and export.
In subsequent years, other editions were circulated and still others were found deposited in various archives; in a surprising number of
instances -- including that of a source stored at the Museum of Modern Art in New York -- there were tiny fragments to be found of the
lost, longer version of Metropolis. The movie's reputation was further compromised with the lapsing of its American copyright in 1953,
after which countless copies and duplicates, in every format from 8 mm to 35 mm (and, later, VHS tape and DVD) came to be distributed
in the U.S. by anyone who could lay their hands on a print, of whatever quality and with whatever music track they chose (or didn't choose)
to put on it. While several versions of the movie from these sources -- each with plot elements missing -- circulated, various restorations
of the movie were attempted over the decades by responsible parties, as well. The BBC did a very effective one in the mid-'70s that was
a hit on public television in America, utilizing an electronic music track that sometimes mimicked some of the industrial images on the
screen. Also, there was the Giorgio Moroder version from 1984, heavily tinted and re-edited, with a rock score grafted onto it, which
introduced the movie to a whole new generation of fans and turned it into a modern pop-culture fixture. The copyright was re-established
in 1998 by the F.W. Murnau Foundation, and a restoration in 2002 brought the movie back to a 127 minute running time, in addition
to utilizing a full orchestral score based on Gottfried Huppertz's original 1927 music. In 2008, it was reported that a significant part of
the "lost" footage from the 1927 153-minute version of Metrpolis had been found in Argentina. The newest restoration of the complete
Metropolis was on-going as of 2009, and a theatrical premiere was anticipated for 2010."
Source: Pan Classics CD(s), 2018 (My album!)
Format: FLAC (RAR), DDD Stereo, 52 tracks
File Size: 695 MB (incl. cover & booklet)
Please request the FLAC link in this thread. PM's will be ignored.
Cover & booklet included. This is my own album.
Please add to my reputation if you download my material! Also, don't share further!
Cover & booklet included. This is my own album.
In 2010, Gottfried Huppertz' original film composition for Metropolis was newly recorded for the
presentation of the restored version of the film. The orchestra performed the music in synchronization with the
film. During post production, the synchronization was further refined and optimized during the music editing
process: the timing of certain passages was adjusted and musical transitions and pauses aligned to the moving
image in correspondence to the numerous synchronization points already marked in the score to achieve a precise
timing and the aspired interaction between the music and the film. In preparation for the issue of the complete
music for Metropolis, film-oriented gaps were closed, musical transitions cut appropriately and the
music mixed in close consultation with Maestro Frank Strobel.
The commercial album was released in January of 2018.
The previous reconstructed score of 2001/2003, which totals 117 minutes, I shared >here< (Thread 211429).
Music Composed by
Gottfried Huppertz
Played by the
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by
Frank Strobel
""The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would
have yielded upwards of 20 conventional features, more than half the studio's entire annual production budget. And if it didn't make a
profit at the time -- indeed, it nearly bankrupted the studio -- the film added an indelible array of images and ideas to cinema, and has
endured across the many decades since its release. Metropolis had many sources of inspiration, including a novel by the director's wife,
Thea von Harbou -- who drew on numerous existing science fiction and speculative fiction sources -- and Lang's own reaction to seeing
the Manhattan skyline at night for the very first time. There are some obvious debts to H.G. Wells (who felt it "the silliest of films"), but
the array of ideas and images can truly be credited to Lang and von Harbou. In the somewhat distant future (some editions say the year
2000, others place it in 2026, and, still others -- including the original Paramount U.S. release -- in 3000 A.D.) the city of Metropolis, with
its huge towers and vast wealth, is a playground to a ruling class living in luxury and decadence. They, and the city, are sustained by a
much larger population of workers who labor as virtual slaves in the machine halls, moving from their miserable, tenement-like homes to
their grim, back-breaking ten-hour shifts and back again. The hero, Freder (Gustav Froehlich) -- the son of Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel),
the master of Metropolis -- is oblivious to the plight of the workers, or any aspect of their lives, until one day when a a beautiful subterranean
dweller named Maria (Brigitte Helm) visits the Eternal Gardens, where he spends his time cavorting with various ladies, with a small group
of children from the workers' city far below. They are sad, hungry, and wretched looking, and he is haunted by their needy eyes -- something
Freder has never seen or known among the elite of the city -- and by this strange and beautiful woman who tells all who hear her, workers'
children and ruler's offspring, that they are all brothers. He follows her back down to the depths of the city and witnesses a horrible accident
and explosion in the machine halls where the men toil in misery. Haunted by what he has seen, he tries to confront his father, only to find
that the man he loves and respects believes that it is right for the workers to live the way they do, while he and his elite frolic in luxury.
Freder decides to do something about it, but he must first learn more, and also locate Maria. With help from Josaphat (Theodor Loos),
Fredersen's recently dismissed office manager, he goes below again and takes over the job of one of the workers, in order to find Maria.
Meanwhile, Fredersen is concerned about the rumblings of unrest among the workers, and his son's sudden interest in their plight;
he assigns "Slim" (Fritz Rasp), his investigator, to follow Freder. Meanwhile, he goes for advice to an old acquaintance, the inventor
C.A. Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge). Rotwang once was a rival to Fredersen for the love of the woman Hel, who married Fredersen and
died bearing his son, Freder. Rotwang still feels the loss, but he is a cunning and practical man, and is willing to help his old "friend,"
but not before showing off his latest creation -- a robot that he has modeled in the image of his beloved Hel, that he may have her again.
Rotwang answers Fredersen's question by taking him to the catacombs below the modern city, where they see Maria preaching the gospel
and counseling patience, in the hope that a "Mediator" -- who will be able to reconcile the "head" and "hands" of society (i.e. the ruling
and working classes) -- will come among them. Fredersen will hear none of it, and sees the need to break the workers' resistance and
destroy Maria's influence among them. He arranges with Rotwang to make his robot creation into a duplicate Maria (which requires his
kidnapping her), and to send her out among the workers to incite them to violence, so that Fredersen can use force against them.
But he doesn't reckon with Rotwang, who despises Fredersen and his ruling class, and has commanded the robot to obey his orders
and follow a plan that will destroy the city, both above and below ground. Fredersen also doesn't reckon with his own son Freder, who
not only believes in what Maria is preaching but is beginning to see himself as the "Mediator," and is right in the midst of the conflagration
when the workers' uprising starts. Soon, fires and floods spread, threatening to doom the children of the workers, abandoned in their
parents' frenzied attack on the machines, and the city of Metropolis faces an impending disaster of biblical proportions. Meanwhile,
the now-mad Rotwang tries to reclaim his lost Hel, and Maria and her evil robot twin are both stalked by crowds of workers driven to
a murderous rage. When it was premiered in Germany in January 1927, Metropolis ran 153 minutes when projected at 24 frames
per second. That complete version was heavily cut for release in America, removing a quarter of the movie -- this included the personal
conflict between Fredersen and Rotwang; a subplot involving double-dealing, espionage, and the mysterious "Slim"; a section taking
place in the "red-light" district of the city; a good deal of the symbolism in the movie's original dialogue; and a large chunk of the chase
at the end. In Germany in the spring of 1927, an edited version modeled roughly on the American edition, though running slightly longer,
was prepared and released, and that became the "standard" version of the movie, for both domestic (i.e. German) distribution and export.
In subsequent years, other editions were circulated and still others were found deposited in various archives; in a surprising number of
instances -- including that of a source stored at the Museum of Modern Art in New York -- there were tiny fragments to be found of the
lost, longer version of Metropolis. The movie's reputation was further compromised with the lapsing of its American copyright in 1953,
after which countless copies and duplicates, in every format from 8 mm to 35 mm (and, later, VHS tape and DVD) came to be distributed
in the U.S. by anyone who could lay their hands on a print, of whatever quality and with whatever music track they chose (or didn't choose)
to put on it. While several versions of the movie from these sources -- each with plot elements missing -- circulated, various restorations
of the movie were attempted over the decades by responsible parties, as well. The BBC did a very effective one in the mid-'70s that was
a hit on public television in America, utilizing an electronic music track that sometimes mimicked some of the industrial images on the
screen. Also, there was the Giorgio Moroder version from 1984, heavily tinted and re-edited, with a rock score grafted onto it, which
introduced the movie to a whole new generation of fans and turned it into a modern pop-culture fixture. The copyright was re-established
in 1998 by the F.W. Murnau Foundation, and a restoration in 2002 brought the movie back to a 127 minute running time, in addition
to utilizing a full orchestral score based on Gottfried Huppertz's original 1927 music. In 2008, it was reported that a significant part of
the "lost" footage from the 1927 153-minute version of Metrpolis had been found in Argentina. The newest restoration of the complete
Metropolis was on-going as of 2009, and a theatrical premiere was anticipated for 2010."
Source: Pan Classics CD(s), 2018 (My album!)
Format: FLAC (RAR), DDD Stereo, 52 tracks
File Size: 695 MB (incl. cover & booklet)
Please request the FLAC link in this thread. PM's will be ignored.
Cover & booklet included. This is my own album.
Please add to my reputation if you download my material! Also, don't share further!