INCLUDES TWENTY TRACKS! OVER ONE HOUR OF MUSIC!
Edition Barbarossa continues its documentation of military music in the DDR with this CD featuring the Central Band of the East German Volkspolizei.
Among the highlights of this collection of marches and concert band pieces are three “Prussian style” German communist marches by Willi Kaufmann, a conductor of the Weimar-era “Red Front Fighters’ League” bands who became the first director of the ZO des MdI; the famous “Moskauer Liedermarsch” (also known as “Moscow in May”) by Isaac Dunayevskii, which was a fixture at parades in Red Square during the Stalin era; Siegfried Bethmann’s “March of the German Peoples’ Police;” and “Der Berliner liebt Musike” by Paul Woitschach, son of the legendary conductor Carl Woitschach.
The conductors featured in this compilation are GMD Helmut Sommer, MD Oberstleutnant Franz Thurig and MD Oberstleutnant Willi Kaufmann.
Complete contents include:
Mit klingendem Spiel - Marschpotpourri [Radetzky Marsch / Pepita Marsch / Alte Kameraden / Erzherzog Albrecht Marsch / Zum Städtele hinaus] (Trad.-Various, Arr. Ahrens) Der Brandenburger (Sommer)Trompetenalarm (Sommer) Muj Konicek (Kmoch)Antifa Marsch Nr. 3 [incorporating „Wann wir schreiten Seit’ an Seite“] (Kaufmann-Englert)Moskauer Liedermarsch (Dunayevskii)Ungarischer Mädchentanz (Bethmann)Der kleine Trompeter (Kaufmann-Trad.)Hora Stacato (Dinicu)Optimistischer Marsch (Goldhammer)Salve Imperator (Fučik)Marsch der DVP (Bethmann)Reminiszensen (Sommer)Zwei Freunde (Kovácik)Zum Lichte Empor (Bethmann)Grillenbanner-Marsch (Komzàk)Sumarinka Polka (Vaček)Auf Friedenswacht (Kottwitz)Der Berliner liebt Musike (Woitschach)Junge Volkspolizisten (Kaufmann)Total Playing Time: 60:34
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