Music For Films - Otto Ketting


Movie | Released: 1995 | Format: CD
 

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# Track   Duration
Musik zum einem Tonfilm
1.Tango7:08
2.Foxtrot6:09
3.Chorale1:47
 
De Provincie
4.Hotelkamer3:57
5.S' Nachts in de Stad2:22
6.De Terugkomst3:20
7.Zomerherinneringen2:27
8.S' Ochtends in de Stad1:14
9.Een Verontrustend Gesprek2:19
10.Het Huwelijk2:43
11.De Dood van Lili3:03
12.Eindtitel3:58
 
De Anna
13.Titelmuziek0:41
14.Hansen's Nachtmerrie2:02
15.Op Weg I2:33
16.Hansen Is Boos1:51
17.Vreemde Gevoelens2:25
18.Slechte Dromen1:11
19.Op Weg II1:24
20.De Aanslag2:45
21.Een Cynisch Verhaal2:54
22.De Vogel Is Gevlogen2:33
23.Treurige Overpeinzingen2:24
24.De Afrekening2:18
25.Eindtitel2:01
 
Het Archief
26.Tempo Di Bordello1:02
27.Parade2:43
28.End Title1:13
 72:27
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The compositions or film scores of composer, conductor, and writer Otto Ketting may not be well known to Americans, but his works have been performed here with some frequency since the early 1970s. His orchestral work 'Time Machine' has been performed by forward thin king orchestras since 1972, and his 1978 Symphony for Saxophones and Orchestra has been featured on numerous programs as well as radio broadcasts of 20th century music, and his third symphony has won prizes the world over, including the United States. Less well known are his brilliant compositions for film. This collection features four soundtracks, all directed and produced by independent European studios. While soundtrack music is, with very few exceptions, incidental by its very nature, Ketting's scores are anything but. Standing on their own, they are wonderfully orchestrated, precisely composed symphonettes that offer glimpses of many of his ideas for larger works. For example, his score to Musick Zu Einem Tonfilm is a three-part suite that evokes his second symphony. Its three parts, a tango, a foxtrot, and choral, are fragments for the much larger score to the film Music for the Theater of Memory. The film is all recollection based on those who fled Germany after Hitler's rise to power. The music is so evocative of times and places in the past, a past so far gone it is difficult to articulate but not so to feel. Strings, principally in the third section, where reminiscences and bittersweet memories are given language and entwine with longing, carry fleeting thoughts and drawn out memories of people places and things. In the first two segments, the tango represents nostalgia; the foxtrot is the memory of romance. In the score to The Province, a thriller, piano and chamber strings play a consistent 3/4 valse triste throughout. Innocent melody, standard harmony, but what is amiss is in the lower register of the viol the harmony suggests something hidden, something unspeakable, and in the cadenzas, there are fragmentary notions where the music all but stops for shimmering, long held notes and phrases repeated to bring about the notion that not everything is as it seems. Ketting himself conducted the ensemble that recorded De Anna. Polka and marching music kick off a score that will not hold its merriment long. A tale of jealousy disillusionment and rage, Ketting holds the suspenseful edge with his use of percussion instruments and long, near unbearably tense lines for strings which play a mournful counterpoint with one another for most of the score. Brass enters in key sections to move the tension along to the breaking point over and over again, making for a bloodlessly grim run through of themes that, had they been played in another tempo, would have been dances! The final work here, The Archive, is a chamber work for clarinet, alto saxophone, piano, and violin. Four themes are interwoven and extrapolated upon with harmonic variations based upon a single melodic structure that haunts them all. There is no drama in the score, but there are subtle dynamics that feel almost as if they were sketched in according to serialist principles, but they break more than one of those rules. It's a deceptively simple work, and beautiful in its economy. Segments begin and end abruptly and the score vanishes before the listener becomes aware of its disappearance. These soundtracks may not be necessary for the casual listener of film music, but for the fan of modern composition and serious film music á la Hermann, Rota, and Morricone, this is an indispensable disc.

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