TWENTY TWO TRACKS! NEARLY SIXTY-FOUR MINUTES PLAYING TIME!
The cavalrymen of the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht ride again in this new CD compilation from Brandenburg Historica!
This album features TWENTY-TWO tradition-steeped cavalry marches and songs from the last three hundred years of German history, presented in archival performances (recorded between 1928 and 1941) by the musicians of the mounted formations of the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht, as well as other German military bands and choruses of the interwar period.
Featured on this album are a host of historic and unmistakably “equestrian” marches, all of which have been carefully selected to provide a representative sampling of the work tempos employed by German mounted units on parade. These include slow marches, marches at a trot and marches at a gallop, as well as numerous cavalry presentation marches played by ancient regiments long celebrated in the annals of German military history. Most strikingly and uniquely, Wohlauf, Kameraden also features magnificent vocal renditions of classic German cavalry battle songs, the stirring lyrics of which were once heard in campaigns ranging from those of the Wars of Liberation (1813-1815) to the World Wars of the twentieth century.
Among the treasures featured in Wohlauf, Kameraden are such musical rarities as:
The Marsch der Pappenheimer Reiterschwadron, a dynamic concert march on cavalry themes written in honor of the Reichswehr formation that maintained the traditions of the heavy cavalry of the Bavarian Royal Army; a textbook performance of a rarely-heard but essential cavalry classic, the fanfare- like Paradepost of the Prussian Cavalry, which was a regular feature at German cavalry parades; and the percussive Trabmarsch of the Prussian Army’s élite Regiment der Gardes du Corps, performed by its actual “successor” regiment of the Reichswehr at Potsdam!
Also heard here are: Der Hohenfriedberger, the musical signature of Frederick the Great’s “Bayreuth Dragoons,” presented in an authentic yet seldom-heard arrangement for cavalry Trompeterkorps; a rare performance of the stirring Galoppmarsch of the 1. Leibhusaren-Regiment at Danzig, performed by the band of Reichswehr’s mounted supply-train detachment at Berlin-Lankwitz; and two traditional Saxon cavalry marches performed by the Trompeterkorps of the Wehrmacht’s 4th Artillery Regiment at Dresden, appropriately introduced by cavalry bugle calls!
Wohlauf, Kameraden also presents several of the most important songs sung by German cavalrymen throughout the last two centuries, including: Was blasen die Trompeten? Husaren heraus!, Ernst Moritz Arndt’s paean to the Prussian "Hussar General" Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher; the Schwedter-Reiterlied, the regimental song of the Wehrmacht’s Kavallerie-Regiment 6 at Schwedt on the Oder, written by a young Prussian aristocrat who commanded one of its Reiter squadrons; and the album's title track, Wohlauf, Kameraden ("Come on, Comrades!"), the cavalry battle song of the Wars of Liberation (1813-1815) written by the poet Friedrich Schiller, performed here by a soldiers’ chorus with the "First Post" of the Cavalry Zapfenstreich as its introduction!
The ELECTRICAL (as opposed to the earlier ACOUSTIC) recordings assembled in this compilation date from an era that saw significant advances in recording technology, and have been skillfully engineered to maximize the considerable fidelity already inherent to them. These restored performances capture a dash and élan invariably missing from postwar military music programs, yet they communicate a crispness and immediacy that speak powerfully to modern listeners. The treble tones of German cavalry trumpets resound here once more in all of their crystalline clarity, backed by the thundering basses of kettledrums and the weighty, brass tones of helicon tubas. Even the ancient, valveless Feldtrompeten of the German cavalry - instruments once used by the “Guilds of Heralds” of the Holy Roman Empire - speak again on this album with renewed, full-spectrum dynamism!
Years in the making, painstakingly researched and magnificently produced, Wohlauf, Kameraden is accompanied by a richly illustrated, twenty-four page booklet that presents a thorough discussion of the cavalry arm in the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht, its traditions, the structure of German army mounted bands and the background of the featured musical selections.
Wohlauf, Kameraden is certain to excite the "inner cavalryman" of all its listeners, and is sure to be a valued addition to your military music library.
Wohlauf, Kameraden features the following selections:
01) Marsch der Pappenheimer Reiterschwadron (Rupprecht) 3:26
Band of the 7th Bavarian Engineer Batallion
Obermusikmeister Josef Schifferl, Conductor
02) Was blasen die Trompeten? Husaren, heraus! – Reiterlied (Trad.-Arndt) 2:12
Male Chorus with Wind Orchestra
Max Stange, Choirmaster
03) Parademarsch AM III, 1f (Krause) 3:16
Berlin Corps of Fanfares and Winds
M. Middeldorp, Conductor
04) Der Hohenfriedberger AM III, 1b (Trad.) 2:23
Trumpet Corps of the 4th Prussian Reiter-Regiment, Potsdam
Obermusikmeister Otto Wagner, Conductor
05) Parademarsch der 18. Husaren HM III A, 58 (Müller) 2:47
Berlin Corps of Fanfares and Winds
M. Middeldorp, Conductor
06) Trabmarsch des Regiments der Gardes du Corps HM III B, 7 (Trad.) 2:59
Trumpet Corps of the 4th Prussian Reiter Regiment, Potsdam
Obermusikmeister Otto Wagner, Conductor
07) Hurra, Viktoria! – Reiterlied (Trad.-Buchhorn) 3:09
Band of the 9th Prussian Infantry Regiment, Spandau with Vocal Quartet
Obermusikmeister Adolf Berdien, Conductor
08) Signal "Galopp" und Amazonenmarsch HM III B, 37 (Hertel) 3:09
Trumpet Corps of the 4th Artillery Regiment, Dresden
Obermusikmeister Fritz Waldau, Conductor
09) Paradepost und Schwedischer Reitermarsch AM III, 70 (Trad.) 3:05
Trumpet Corps of the 4th Prussian Reiter Regiment, Potsdam
Obermusikmeister Otto Wagner, Conductor
10) Kreuzritter-Fanfare (Henrion) 2:24
Trumpet Corps of the 4th Prussian Reiter Regiment, Potsdam
Obermusikmeister Otto Wagner, Conductor
11) Schwedter-Reiterlied (Bronsart von Schellendorff) 2:57
Band and Chorus of the Garrison Command, Paris
Stabsmusikmeister Ludwig Klamberg, Conductor
12) Signal "Schritt" und Parademarsch im Schritt HM III A, 64 (Baum) 2:22
Trumpet Corps of the 4th Artillery Regiment, Dresden
Obermusikmeister Fritz Waldau, Conductor
13) Trabmarsch des Dragoner-Regiments 2 HM III B, 30 (Trad.) 2:35
Trumpet Corps of Cavalry Regiment 6, Schwedt/Oder
Obermusikmeister Ludwig Klamberg, Conductor
14) Galoppmarsch des Leibhusaren-Regiments 1 HM III B, 22 (Trad.) 2:51
Trumpet Corps of the 3rd Prussian Supply-Train Detachment, Berlin-Lankwitz
Musikmeister Willi Thiele, Conductor
15) Reiters Morgenlied (Silcher-Hauff) 3:15
Male Chorus
Max Stange, Choirmaster
16) Des Grossen Kurfürsten Reitermarsch AM III, 72 (Graf von Moltke) ..3:03
Wind Orchestra
Carl Woitschach, Conductor
17) Trabmarsch aus der "Quadrille" HM III B, 9 (Graf von Redern) 2:53
Trumpet Corps of the 3rd Prussian Supply-Train Detachment, Berlin-Lankwitz
Musikmeister Willi Thiele, Conductor
18) Hie guet Brandenburg allewege - Fanfarenmarsch (Henrion) 3:08
Military Orchestra with Fanfares
Army Music Inspector Oskar Hackenberger, Conductor
19) Trabmarsch "Ich hört ein Bächlein rauschen" HM III B, 46 (Schubert) 2:30
Wind Orchestra
Unnamed Conductor
20) Der Pappenheimer AM III, 138 (Trad.) 3:04
Cavalry Orchestra with Kettledrums
Joseph Snaga, Conductor
21) Kürassiermarsch "Grosser Kurfürst" AM III, 142 (von Simon) 2:43
Trumpet Corps of Cavalry Regiment 6, Schwedt/Oder
Obermusikmeister Ludwig Klamberg, Conductor
22) Wohlauf, Kameraden! - Reiterlied (Zahn-Schiller) 3:19
Male Chorus with Military Orchestra
Hugo Riedel, Choirmaster
Total Time: 63:41
