METROPOLIS
GOTTFRIED HUPPERTZ
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Conducted by Frank Strobel



MP3-V0
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qde54hvyh2gxy00
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?9zl6aeetjez7jrt

FLAC
www.peeje.com/files/362003170/1927.M_FSRR.rar.html
Thanks to jacksbrain for reuploading!



Time for the return of the “Silent Scores” series :) This is perhaps the crown jewel of them all! Gottfried Huppertz’s lush music for Metropolis received its first significant revival for the 2001 restoration previously issued on dvd. Film and film music fans at the time agreed that this was something of a revelation, both in terms of its revivifying effect on Fritz Lang’s striking imagery and its place film scoring history. It spearheaded a new awareness of just how lavish many of these productions we misnomically deem ‘silents’ were, and has led to other classics being reunited with their rightful symphonic accompaniments.

With the help of a newly discovered Argentine print and the detailed timing instructions in Huppertz’s own score, Metropolis has been reconstructed to very nearly the form in which it was conceived; sub-plots clarified, original editing structure intact and the music presented it in all its glory. This new studio recording features several previously unheard cues and a wonderfully detailed picture of the Rundfunks orchestra.

I make no apology for enjoying the unmistakable German stimmung of this music. Sure enough, we have echoes of Wagner and Strauss, but it also looks forward in film scoring terms to Herrmann, Waxman and even Williams. This is no mere aural background; there are at least a dozen major themes, by turns grandiose, swooning, suggestive, menacing, bracing and forthright, and the full resources of the orchestra are employed. Huppertz keeps a fine balance between the descriptive and the psychological (has a machine taking on female form ever sounded so sexy?). Freder and Maria have two themes each by my count; themes that implore and hope and desire, ensuring that the characterS ‘speak’ as passionately as any in cinema. Modern ears are likely to be surprised by the dominance of conspicuously full tutti passages, but there are still plenty piquant orchestrations for smaller groups of instruments at the right moments.

However you slice it, this is a big score. There are inevitably a few longeurs involving repetition in the space of 2 � hours of continuous music. I did consider arranging a highlights suite, but in the final analysis it wouldn't do justice to the scope of what I feel is one of the medium’s first masterpieces. Instead, I’ve presented the complete unexpurgated score, ripped from the ‘lossless’ blu-ray audio files and appropriately segmented and tagged.



Enjoy! :)

Heh, nice. Thanks.

I'll give this a once over.

Thanks.

That pleases to find again the version of origin. Thanks a lot.

Lens of Truth, this is truly awesome! Thanks!

Truly incredible share. Huge thanks for this mate!

How many tracks is this? I have a version that is 40 tracks from a DVD rip isolated score I think.

Fantastic, thanks for all the hard work you put into posting this. Looks like 11 tracks. It is far better than the 40-track DVD-rip I have from digitalmelt.

Fantastic, thanks for all the hard work you put into posting this. Looks like 11 tracks. It is far better than the 40-track DVD-rip I have from digitalmelt.

I'm totally grabbing this one then. Sounds like we had the same version.

I'm listening to it now--and it's even more beautiful than the Kino DVD material, as there is more of Huppertz's score to enjoy with more footage discovered. The lossless source trumps the previous release. Your efforts are much appreciated Lens Of Truth! The 256 or thereabouts VBR is great, and I think a lossless posting of this would be divine!

You're all welcome. Good to see some fans of this score! :)

Just to be clear about the specs for anyone on the fence:

- sourced from the blu-ray DTS-HD 2.0 track
- extracted using eac3to
- complete score
- 11 tracks
- 30 mins longer than the previous version
- encoded in lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR

I should add that it's a better performance AND better recording to begin with, so the improvement is quite significant! :)

The score is basically a sequence of thematic 'episodes' that run into one another and work better as mini suites, and that's how I've divided them with the most natural breaks in the recording.

FLAC isn't out of the question, but I do have a very poor connection and it would run to probably a gigabyte :S

Looks promising. Many thanks, I shall check it out!

Thank you SO much!

Thank you SO much for this... my ALL-TIME favorite film :)

Hi, thanks for sharing, this is great!

It's great to have this since I doubt they will ever actually release it on CD since you can hear it by watching the movie (in surround sound!!!) but I'm very glad to have a version I can put in my MP3 player. :D Any fan of this film should get the new BLU RAY (or DVD if you don't have a Blu Player).

thanks :)

Many, many, many THANKS for this AMAZING share, Lens Of Truth!

Incredible quality, absolutely perfect!!!

Thanks for the score. It's magnificent!

Thanks! :)

GREAT,GREAT,GREAT

Listening to this rip definitely peaked my interest in the film itself. I might actually go out and grab it now. Thanks for this!

Thank you! :)

Listening to this rip definitely peaked my interest in the film itself. I might actually go out and grab it now. Thanks for this!
Dew it. Best. Film. Ever.

Thanks. You've done a nice job.

FLAC added.

Fantastic, thanks so much for sharing this!! I watched the film several years ago and loved it, although I want to see the more complete cut of the film that was released since then. Looking forward to enjoying the isolated score!

I cannot get any of these links to work...

Wow oh wow, listening to the score now, and it's just glorious, and with fantastic sound to boot!! When I first watched the film years ago, I don't know which music it had accompanying that version, but I don't think it was this, that one felt a lot more silent-filmey/cartooney.

Anyways, since I am constantly making Covers to soundtracks I download, I thought I would share one I made for this one. I in no way am trying to replace the nice cover that Lens of Truth provided, just giving an alternate, in case anyone wants.
Thanks again for the music!

metropolis gottfried huppertz.jpg (http://www.mediafire.com/i/?aubvahbokm9p7sj)

@johnnyspud: A mp3 mirror in MU:

www.megaupload.com/?d=Z6RX3UZN (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z6RX3UZN)
www.megaupload.com/?d=EXTIZW9W (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EXTIZW9W)
www.megaupload.com/?d=2KFLYPSV (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2KFLYPSV)

Unfortunately, I cannot get any of the links with the soundtracks to work.
I cannot download it.

Are there anyone who can upload the new Metropolis-soundtrack on Rapidshare again ??

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Hello Lens of Truth.

Is it possible to upload the Metropolis-soundtrack again ??
Unfornatunately I cannot get any of the to work and I have looked forward to this amazing music from Mr. Huppertz.

efb84 - the Megaupload links are all still working. Do you use Jdownloader? If you queue them up in that they'll be done before you know it :)

Hello Lens of Truth

I have now downloaded the music and it is just fantastic - Thank you so much.

Love it. Thanks for the share.

Many thanks Lens of Truth! :D

Thank-you!

If you haven't seen this film, watch it! This is probably my most favorite silent film to date because Dark City was inspired by it & that is a film I am a HUGE fan of.

Gazillion thanks

So this would be the 2010 Re-Recording of the soundtrack with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Frank Strobel correct?
The Blu-Ray release only includes this 2010 recording from what I understand, thankfully the Giorgio Moroder version is not on here.

Thanks so much for this post, I had the old LaserDisc copy of this movie, I think I will now go out and get the Blu Ray release.

The Blu-Ray is incredible by the way.

Yeah, this is the 2010 version.

Although the Moroder version comes out on Blu-Ray next week, can't imagine it won't take too long for someone to produce a upgraded rip of that.

Great movie !!! Muito obrigado !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of the F>LAC links, only the megaupload (as usual) and the deposit files links still seem to work.

Thanks!

It should be noted that the 4 FLAC archives have to be unzipped INDIVIDUALLY, into different folders, because if you use the same folder you'll end up with the material of FLAC1 only!

Yeah, this is the 2010 version.

Although the Moroder version comes out on Blu-Ray next week, can't imagine it won't take too long for someone to produce a upgraded rip of that.

I know this sounds weird....but I LIKE Moroder's score. I dupped it from tape complete in the 90's, but have lost it! Has any one started to rip the blu-ray? Please let me know.

thank you

A BIG thank you! I have the 77 minute soundtrack CD but I wanted the whole thing too. This is awesome!

I know this sounds weird....but I LIKE Moroder's score. I dupped it from tape complete in the 90's, but have lost it! Has any one started to rip the blu-ray? Please let me know.

I'm also wondering if anyone has ripped the Moroder blu-ray. Downloaded the complete score to that a while back, but for some strange reason there are "skips" in the tracks.

Very nice, thank you !

I'm also wondering if anyone has ripped the Moroder blu-ray. Downloaded the complete score to that a while back, but for some strange reason there are "skips" in the tracks.

I found a download link for the Bluray and I might give it a try to rip the stuff.

I found a download link for the Bluray and I might give it a try to rip the stuff.

That'd be awesome! Let me know how it turns out.

Just downloaded the Bluray and extracting both audio streams (DTS 5.1, 16bit, 48kHz / PCM 2.0, 24bit, 48kHz) now. Don't know, which one is better yet.

EDIT: I had a look at the stereo track and splitted it up into 7 tracks. Most of the cues and songs blend into each other, so if anyone wants to take my tracks and work on the files further, feel free to do so.



1984 | Giorgio Moroder | Metropolis - Complete (BDrip) [FLAC] | 7 Tracks | 83:18 min | 467 MB

Link: multiupload.com (http://www.multiupload.com/DH0KYFMNXO)
PW: funnyml.blogspot.com

Thank you man...take care....

Thank you very much !!

Thank you for the Moroder! I am looking forward to listening to this again!

Can anyone re-up parts 3 & 4? They are no longer on depositfiles or anywhere else.

I'll be reuploading it, although you'll have to download again the whole thing, since I don't keep the parts.
It will take some hours. XD

I'll be reuploading it, although you'll have to download again the whole thing, since I don't keep the parts.
It will take some hours. XDWow, thanks! Take your re-upping them, I'm in no hurry :D

Well it's been some days instead of a few hours XD Sorry for the delay. Here it's a re-up of the FLAC version

Free File Hosting - Online Storage; Upload Mp3, Videos, Music. Backup Files (http://www.peeje.com/files/362003170/1927.M_FSRR.rar.html)
Every "thank you" should go to Lens of Truth for his original work!

Not at all! I'm very grateful for the reup, as it seems I've lost the FLAC files myself! Added your link to the opening post and refreshed the mp3s on mediafire.

Thanks a lot.

Thanks for this, very much appreciated!

Thanks Jacks Brain for the re-up and Lens for the rip! :)

Frank Strobel edited a CD album with 77 min.of music. Yours is more complete

Thank you for the ReUp. Unfortunately with a recent HDD failure (my 2TB) I have lost so much, and one of the things I lost was my copy of the Metropolis film. :( very sad to much has gone.

PCM

Thank you for this real rare one. Back to 1995, RCA red seal recorded 13-14 albums as a serie: 100 years of film music. This title was initially recorded live, but withdrew due to copy right issue (or other issue).

Thank you again for the bluray rip. This is almost double the length from the Capriccio CD release. Excellent work!

O...M...F...G... THANKYOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been looking for an ost of the original metropolis score since i saw the movie for the first time (thanks turner classic movies). thank you for posting it!

Thanks for the wonderful score!

I bought the iTunes version, and I was mad cause it didn't have the full score. I love this film, and it's soundtrack, and I own the DVD too. And now I have the full soundtrack. THANKS!!

PLEASE!!!

It would be great if somebody could upload the ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK of METROPOLIS. In other words, the 1927's 78 rpm record with Huppertz conducting some leitmotifs of the score and that also included some words of Fritz Lang about the art of filming!!!

I've found some fragments and samples of it on internet, but as far as i know the complete original recording is not available by any means on the internet. IF SOMEONE HAS A COPY OF THOSE EP's OR ANY TRANSFER CD's FROM THE ORIGINAL PLEASE UPLOAD IT!!!!

People like me will apreciate it A LOT!!!

Thank you! Brilliant stuff.

I can't get the link to work. Can somebody please re-upload the FLAC files?

Yes the peejeshare link no longer works

I replaced the share after peeje to get it load but it says all slots are filled always

does anyone have jacksbrain's flac ?

Thank you so much if you do and can re up!!

Thank you so much for this classic!!! ;)

Mr. MnM how did you get the peejeshare link to work?

It always says download slots full try again momentarily. For months.

Hi Dark2600 I used mediafire link. I do not usually use the peejeshare because of that... it also happens to me sometimes :( I do not know how to help you.

Shoot. Peeje.com won't even load now (not just this link—the entire website). And while I was able to download Part 2 of the original Mediafire files, Part 1 has been taken down.

Any ideas? Solutions? Help? Would someone be willing to upload a copy of the download they got from Lens of Truth. . . ?

Guess this has to go to the requests forum again, since nobody has this anymore.

However you slice it, this is a big score. There are inevitably a few longeurs involving repetition in the space of 2 � hours of continuous music. Ripped from the �lossless� blu-ray audio files and appropriately segmented and tagged.


Just to be clear about the specs for anyone on the fence:

- sourced from the blu-ray DTS-HD 2.0 track
- extracted using eac3to
- complete score
- 11 tracks
- 30 mins longer than the previous version
- encoded in FLAC 1.1.2 and LAME 3.98.4 V0 VBR

The score is basically a sequence of thematic 'episodes' that run into one another and work better as mini suites, and that's how I've divided them with the most natural breaks in the recording.

LENS OF TRUTH's FLAC Re-Upload Link
https://mega.co.nz/#!YYcy2KzA!HloAlCxki8do4zoGuvkLqAzFiCwTadu2W4ZqK7O uVsk

The still working links by Lens of Truth for the MP3 -V0 encode
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qde54hvyh2gxy00
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?9zl6aeetjez7jrt

Thank you for the re-up!

thanks

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/metropolis-complete-original-score-gottfied-huppertz-82853/3.html#post1861222
1984 | Giorgio Moroder | Metropolis - Complete (BDrip) [FLAC] | 7 Tracks | 83:18 min | 467 MB

Please Reupload!

Nice find!

Thank you for the share, Lens of Truth, and thegrizz70x7 for providing excellent cover.

Thanks.

Thanks very much!


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

Thanks a lot!

Thanks

Many thanks for FLAC MEGA re-up above!

Thank you for the share Lens of Truth, and for the re-up Herr Salat!

Thanks for the re-up!

METROPOLIS
GOTTFRIED HUPPERTZ
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Conducted by Frank Strobel



MP3-V0
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qde54hvyh2gxy00
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?9zl6aeetjez7jrt

FLAC
www.peeje.com/files/362003170/1927.M_FSRR.rar.html
Thanks to jacksbrain for reuploading!



Time for the return of the �Silent Scores� series :) This is perhaps the crown jewel of them all! Gottfried Huppertz�s lush music for Metropolis received its first significant revival for the 2001 restoration previously issued on dvd. Film and film music fans at the time agreed that this was something of a revelation, both in terms of its revivifying effect on Fritz Lang�s striking imagery and its place film scoring history. It spearheaded a new awareness of just how lavish many of these productions we misnomically deem �silents� were, and has led to other classics being reunited with their rightful symphonic accompaniments.

With the help of a newly discovered Argentine print and the detailed timing instructions in Huppertz�s own score, Metropolis has been reconstructed to very nearly the form in which it was conceived; sub-plots clarified, original editing structure intact and the music presented it in all its glory. This new studio recording features several previously unheard cues and a wonderfully detailed picture of the Rundfunks orchestra.

I make no apology for enjoying the unmistakable German stimmung of this music. Sure enough, we have echoes of Wagner and Strauss, but it also looks forward in film scoring terms to Herrmann, Waxman and even Williams. This is no mere aural background; there are at least a dozen major themes, by turns grandiose, swooning, suggestive, menacing, bracing and forthright, and the full resources of the orchestra are employed. Huppertz keeps a fine balance between the descriptive and the psychological (has a machine taking on female form ever sounded so sexy?). Freder and Maria have two themes each by my count; themes that implore and hope and desire, ensuring that the characterS �speak� as passionately as any in cinema. Modern ears are likely to be surprised by the dominance of conspicuously full tutti passages, but there are still plenty piquant orchestrations for smaller groups of instruments at the right moments.

However you slice it, this is a big score. There are inevitably a few longeurs involving repetition in the space of 2 � hours of continuous music. I did consider arranging a highlights suite, but in the final analysis it wouldn't do justice to the scope of what I feel is one of the medium�s first masterpieces. Instead, I�ve presented the complete unexpurgated score, ripped from the �lossless� blu-ray audio files and appropriately segmented and tagged.



Enjoy! :)

Thanks a lot!!!

Aaaah!!! This score is brilliant!! Thank you so so much!!!