Hanns Eisler: Film Music
) | Label: CAP Catalog: C5289 Format: CD Kalitzke, Johannes; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester BerlinAustrian composer Hanns Eisler is best known for composing the national anthem of the German Democratic Republic, for his long partnership with Bertolt Brecht, and for his film scores. His promising career in Hollywood, however, was interrupted by the Cold War. Film studio bosses blacklisted his music, and he was subjected to two interrogations by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Despite efforts by his American musical powerhouse friends Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, he was deported in 1948. In addition to the Oscar-nominated score for Fritz Lang’s film “Hangmen Also Die,” this release contains other rarely heard works by Hanns Eisler, in which the special interpretation Schonberg’s pupil had developed of the twelve-tone technique plays an astonishingly important role for the field of film and orchestral music.  Price: $25.98 |