INCLUDES TWENTY FOUR TRACKS! NEARLY SEVENTY MINUTES PLAYING TIME!
A magnificent compilation featuring Germany's most beloved marches and patriotic songs, the latter in sometimes martial-, sometimes sentimental-, but always stirring performances presented by male choruses with orchestral accompaniment and mixed choruses.
Performers include the Bundeswehr's Heeresmusikkorps 300 Koblenz under the direction of Oberstleutnant Georg Czerner; Heeresmusikkorps 12 Veitshöchheim under Major Volker Wörrlein; Die Deutsche Chorgemeinschaften; and (as guest artist on the first track) the legendary heroic tenor Mario Lanza.
The lyrics of the songs presented here are included in the 16-page, color-illustrated German-language insert booklet. Some of the selections on this album are, to our knowledge, totally new to CD, while the versions of the better-known pieces heard in this compilation have never been offered elsewhere.
Complete contents include:
Gaudeamus igitur (Trad.)*
Kein schöner Land (Anton W.F. von Zuccamaglio)*
Die Wacht am Rhein (Maximilian Schneckenburger / Carl Wilhelm)*
Fehrbelliner-Reitermarsch (Richard Henrion)
Lied der Franken (Josef Victor von Scheffels / Valentin Eduard Becker)
Alte Kameraden HM II/150 (Carl Teike)
Siebenbürgenmarsch (Georg Fürst)
Der Coburger-Josias Marsch AM I/27, HM I/9 (Michael Haydn)
Des Grossen Kurfürsten Reitermarsch AM III/72, HM III A/27 (Cuno Graf von Moltke)
Fanfare und Marsch der Pappenheimer-Reiter AM III/138, HM II/2 (Michael Haydn)
Präsentiermarsch AM I/1a, HM I/2 (Friedrich Wilhelm III von Preussen) Freiheit, die ich meine (G.F. Maximilan von Schenkendorff / Karl Groos)
Ich hab mich ergeben (Hans Ferdinand Massmann)* Ich hatt' einen Kameraden (Ludwig Uhland / Friedrich Silcher)*
Kreuzritter-Fanfare AM III/113, HM II A/40 (Richard Henrion)
Regimentsgruss HM II/4 (Heinrich Steinbeck)
Geschwindmarsch AM II/126 (Johann Strauss the Elder)
Helenenmarsch AM II/173, HM II/55 (Friedrich Lübbert)
Marsch 1837 aus Petersburg AM II/113 (Eriksson) Schwedischer-Kriegsmarsch AM II/241, HM II/99 (Trad.) Althessischer-Reitermarsch 1732 AM III/141 (Landgraf Ludwig VIII. von Hessen-Darmstadt) Parademarsch der Langen Kerls AM I/106, HM II/3 (Marc Roland) Grosser Zapfenstreich (Trad.) Das Lied der Deutschen [Deutschland über alles] (Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben / Josef Haydn)* COMPLETE THREE-STANZA VERSION
* Vocal Selection
Total Playing Time: 69:52