Enjott Schneider - Movie Themes Made in Germany (Frank Strobel)

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Composer: Enjott Schneider

• Jenseits der Sehnsucht (Elegy for violin and strings, from the ARD television film "Ohne Dich" by Florian Baxmeyer)
• Cararina von Siena "Die Mystikerin" (for piano and orchestra, based on the film by Jürgen Grundmann)
• Violin Concerto "Augen der Erde": II. Mondsee
• Die andere Frau (Poem for piano and orchestra, based on the film by Margarethe von Trotta)
• Leise Schatten – Silent Shadow (Suite based on the film by Sherry Horman)
• Movie Themes Made in Germany (Orchestral suite on themes from films)
• Die Flucht (Orchestral suite based on the film by Kai Wessel)
• Piano Concerto "Evolution" (based on the music from the film "The Evolution of Networks" by Richard A. Caesa)
• Das Wunder des Mauerfalls – Leipzig 1989 (Orchestral suite based on the music for "Wunder von Leipzig" by Sebastian Dehnhardt and Matthias Schmidt)

Friedemann Eichhorn, violin

Andreas Skouras, piano

Inga Balzer-Wolf, soprano

WDR Funkhausorchester Köln

Frank Strobel, conductor

Date: 2025

Label: Solo Musica

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Description

Composing music for pictures is about the same as setting a text to music or expressing a poetic-lyrical idea: it is about looking “behind the façade” of a situation, capturing the spiritual and psychological aspects behind a situation or thing. Good and independent film music is never just an external description and duplication of the image: it must capture the essence, the “right vibration”, touch the deep inner core of an invisible world that remains hidden to the visual eye, which is only focused on the external.

Film music always knows more than what is going on in the picture: as if in a magical process, it connects people with each other, links past memories with the future and hope. It is a sorceress that can lend every image and every situation a characteristic timbre.

This collection of film music from three decades not only reproduces the original themes from films, but also presents them ‘concertante’ in newly created work contexts such as suites or independent tone poems.

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Enjott Schneider (born 1950 in Weil am Rhein) is a German composer, musicologist and educator. He studied music and humanities at Freiburg, earning a doctorate under Hans-Heinrich Eggebrecht. Schneider held academic posts in Freiburg and Munich, and later taught composition in Regensburg. He gained prominence in the 1980s as a leading film composer, scoring major German television series and films. His diverse output spans symphonies, operas, concertos and organ works, often blending styles from classical to rock. A prolific author and studio founder, he has received numerous prestigious awards for his music.

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Frank Strobel (born 1966 in Munich) is a German conductor. Influenced early by his parents' cinema, he developed expertise in silent film accompaniment and orchestral conducting. He maintained a significant artistic collaboration with Alfred Schnittke, leading premieres and recordings with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Strobel served as chief conductor of the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg until 1998 and has directed the European Film Philharmonic since 2000. Renowned for reconstructing and conducting film scores, he has revitalized silent cinema through live performances worldwide.

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