Composer: Gottfried Huppertz
Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Frank Strobel
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pan Classics
Catalogue: PC10346
Release: 2016
Size: 389 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Die Nibelungen
Siegfried
01. Wie Siegfried den Drachen bezwang (From “Die Nibelungen, Siegfried”)
02. Wie Volker von Siegfried sang und wie Siegfried nach Worms (From “Die Nibelungen, Siegfried”)
03. Wie Siegfried Brünhild für Gunther gewann (From “Die Nibelungen, Siegfried”)
04. Wie Brünhild zu Worms einzog und wie die Könige sich vermählten (From “Die Nibelungen, Siegfried”)
05. Wie nach sechs Monaten Siegfrieds Morgengabe / Wie König Gunther Siegfried die Treue brach (From “Die Nibelungen, Siegfried”)
06. Wie Kriemhild Hagen von Tronje Rache schwur (From “Die Nibelungen, Siegfried”)
Kriemhild’s Revenge
07. Wie Kriemhild um Siegfried trauerte, und wie König Etzel durch Rüdiger von Bechlarn um sie warb (From “Die Nibelungen, Kriemhilds Rache”)
08. Wie Kriemhild von der Heimat Abschied nahm, und wie sie von König Etzel empfangen wurde (From “Die Nibelungen, Kriemhilds Rache”)
09. Wie König Etzel vor Rom lag / Wie Kriemhild ihre Brüder empfing (From “Die Nibelungen, Kriemhilds Rache”)
10. Wie die Hunnen mit den Burgunden das Sonnwendfest feiern / Der Nibelungen Not (From “Die Nibelungen, Kriemhilds Rache”)
11. Der Nibelungen Ende (From “Die Nibelungen, Kriemhilds Rache”)
The film director Fritz Lang cast Gottfried Huppertz (1887-1937) in several of his films before asking him to write the original score for ‘Die Nibelungen’ (1924), which he composed using the shooting script as a silent libretto. It was Huppertz’s first major project and his mastery of orchestration is nothing short of remarkable. Huppertz wrote in a lush, late-Romantic idiom. With ‘Die Nibelungen’, he evokes Wagner’s take on Teutonic mythology through a highly lyrical and orchestrally expansive score that resists being imitative. The music echoes Wagner without attempting to mimic it. At the same time, Huppertz’s musical language resembles Alexander von Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker, Walter Braunfels and Eugene D’Albert. This CD presents a suite with highlights from Huppertz’s original score whose total length is more than four hours. The pieces for the suite were selected by Frank Strobel, Germany’s leading film music conductor and musical director of this recording with the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony).