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  General Discussion: new CD: Hanns Eisler Film Music   Last Post 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2016 - 10:34 AM   
 By:   chriss   (Member)

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Johannes Kallitzke in new recordings of music from Eisler's US film scores.

Hangmen Also Die (1942/43) Fritz Lang
The 400 Million (1938/39)
The Grapes of Wrath Alternative Film Music (1941/1942) John Ford

http://www.capriccio.at/2017releases
 
 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2016 - 10:47 AM   
 By:   El Aurence   (Member)

Hi Chriss!

Thanks for this suggestion. I know Eisler but haven't heard any of his compositions so far. By the way: The book he wrote with Adorno about film music, is it available and have you read it?
 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2016 - 10:51 AM   
 By:   Ray Faiola   (Member)

Interesting release. Will definitely pick this one up. Sorry they couldn't squeeze in DEADLINE AT DAWN, a wonderful RKO noir directed by Harold Clurman.

Eisler also wrote the book Composing For Films.
 
 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2016 - 11:34 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Yeah, I have the famous book he wrote with Adorno. I used it frequently both in my studies and teaching -- it's less interesting as a book on film music, and more interesting as a Frankfurt school thesis, a counter-cultural argument against mainstream, Hollywood conventions at the time (late 40s).

Of course -- except for his work with Bertolt Brecht, Eisler never really had much success as a film composer, and especially not success in terms of applying the ideas of the book he wrote with Adorno. But a CD of his music is long overdue, and should at least provide an interesting insight into a composer who's rarely talked about outside academic circles.

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2016 - 1:11 PM   
 By:   Essankay   (Member)

Excellent news! Now a companion for the album of suites of his European film music from the 30s:

Opus III (1930) Walter Ruttmann
Niemandsland (1931)
Kuhle Wampe (1932)
Die Jugend hat das Wort (1932)
Music for the documentary film White Flood (1940), retitled Chamber Symphony (Kammersymphonie)




Eisler provided music for films from directors as varied as Ruttmann, Joris Ivens, Jacques Feyder, Clifford Odets, Joseph Losey, Harold Clurman, Fritz Lang, Frank Borzage, Douglas Sirk, Jean Renoir, and Edward Dmytryk, and generated forty film scores altogether. Not too shabby a track record, I'd say.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2016 - 11:22 PM   
 By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member)

Happily, this "companion" album is readily available on Amazon. Not so, however, the new HANGMEN ALSO DIE disc which is the focus of this thread. Any idea when and where we can get our hands on it?

 
 Posted:   Dec 30, 2016 - 1:33 AM   
 By:   chriss   (Member)

Happily, this "companion" album is readily available on Amazon. Not so, however, the new HANGMEN ALSO DIE disc which is the focus of this thread. Any idea when and where we can get our hands on it?

Well, the label has the CD on their list of upcoming releases for 2017 at the top of the listing. No release date yet but hopefully coming soon.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 31, 2016 - 1:43 AM   
 By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member)

Thanks, Chriss, I -- the Luddite Cyberpunk -- couldn't figure that out. T'will be well worth waiting for, I'm hoping.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 31, 2016 - 2:47 AM   
 By:   Doc Loch   (Member)

Has the music he did for Alain Resnais' Night and Fog ever been released? I've found several discs of Eisler's music but it doesn't appear to be on any of them.

 
 Posted:   Apr 22, 2017 - 7:09 AM   
 By:   chriss   (Member)

Now available:

https://www.amazon.de/Hanns-Eisler-Music-Johannes-Kalitzke/dp/B06XG6WB15/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492866504&sr=8-1&keywords=eisler+kalitzke

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 22, 2017 - 9:58 AM   
 By:   haineshisway   (Member)

He wrote a weird but interesting score for the French 1950s film of The Crucible, which just came out on Blu-ray.

 
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