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Monday, May 02, 2005
Der Schatz, Max Deutsch, cpo
Der Schatz, Max Deutsch
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz,
Conducted by Frank Strobel
CPO (Distributed by Naxos)

Der Schatz (The Treasure – 1923) was the first film of G.W. Pabst, one of the great directors of German cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. Pabst went on to work with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich to make such historical films as Three-Penny Opera, Joyless Street and Pandora's Box, with Louise Brooks. Long believed to be a “lost classic,” Der Schatz was pieced together in the mid-1990s by the Prague Film Archive in collaboration with the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin and the Cinematheque Royale in Brussels. Happily, composer Max Deutsch's (1892-1982) original score for full orchestra, played at the film's premiere in Dresden on 26 February 1923, was also found in the archives of the Frankfurt Film Museum. Deutsch's score is considered the first complete film symphony and was given to the musem by the composer before he died in 1982.

Deutsch was a student of Arnold Schönberg who later taught at the Paris Conservatory and the roughly 75 minutes of music he wrote to accompany Pabst’s silent epic is as dark and brooding as the story itself which is about a struggle between good and evil characters over a lost treasure. Structured in five movements, the score is tonal yet strikingly “modern” for its time, with a characteristic mood that is distinctly “storm clouds over the Weimar.” Conductor Frank Strobel has made something of a mini-career for himself conducting the piece with various orchestras for screenings of Der Schatz at international film festivals and this recording with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz is likely to be definitive.
posted by Jerry Bowles 7:09 AM


 


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