Silent and Sound Film Projects for Orchestra / Ensemble
Silent films with live-orchestra | |
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN –BRONENOSEC POTIOMKIN | directed by Sergei Eisenstein (USSR 1925), music by Dmitri Shostakovich, arranged by Frank Strobel (2008) |
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN –BRONENOSEC POTIOMKIN | directed by Sergei Eisenstein (USSR 1925), music by Dmitri Shostakovich, arranged by Armin Brunner |
BEN HUR | directed by Fred Niblo (USA 1925), new score by Carl Davis |
BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A BIG CITY – | directed by Walther Ruttmann (Germany 1927), original score by Edmund Meisel, arranged by Bernd Thewes |
BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A BIG CITY – | directed by Walther Ruttmann (Germany 1927), new score by Mark- Andreas Schlingensiepen |
BLANCANIEVES | directed by Pablo Berger (Spain 2012), original score by Alfonso de Vilallonga, arranged by Roman Gottwald |
BUDDENBROCKS | directey by Heinrich Breloer (Germany 2008), score by Hans P. Ströer |
CITY LIGHTS | directed by Charles Chaplin (USA 1929/31), original score by Charles Chaplin |
CARMEN | directed by Cecille B. deMille (USA 1915), original score by Georges Bizet, arranged by Hugo Riesenfeld |
DESTINY - DER MÜDE TOD | directed by Fritz Lang (Germany 1921), new score by Cornelius Schwehr |
FAUST: A GERMAN FOLK LEGEND – FAUST: EINE DEUTSCHE VOLKSSAGE | directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Germany 1926) new score by Bernd Schultheis |
GROWTH OF THE SOIL – MARKENS GRØDE | directed by Gunnar Sommerfeldt (Norway 1921), original score by Leif Halvorsen |
IM KAMPF MIT DEM BERGE: IN STURM UND EIS | directed by Arnold Franck (Germany 1921), original score by Paul Hindemith |
INTOLERANCE | directed by D. W. Griffith (USA 1916), new score by Carl Davis |
J’ACCUSE | directed by Abel Gance (France 1919), new score by Philippe Schoeller (2014) |
LA ROUE | directed by Abel Gance (France 1923), music compilation by Paul Fosse and Arthur Honegger |
METROPOLIS | directed by Fritz Lang (Germany 1926), original score by Gottfried Huppertz |
METROPOLIS | directed by Fritz Lang (Germany 1926), new score by Bernd Schultheis |
NATHAN THE WISE | directed by Manfred Noa (Austria 1923), new score by Rabih- Abou-Khalil |
NIBELUNGEN: SIEGFRIED – DIE NIBELUNGEN: 1. TEIL SIEGFRIED | directed by Fritz Lang (Germany 1924), original score by Gottfried Huppertz |
NIBELUNGEN: KRIEMHILD’S REVENGE – DIE NIBELUNGEN: 2. TEIL KRIEMHILDS RACHE | directed by Fritz Lang (Germany 1924), original score by Gottfried Huppertz |
NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF HORROR – NOSFERATU, EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS | directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Germany 1921), new score by James Bernard |
OCTOBER | directed by Sergei Eisenstein (USSR 1928), music by Edmund Meisel, arranged by Bernd Thewes |
PANDORA’S BOX – DIE BÜCHSE DER PANDORA | directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Germany 1929), new score by Peer Raben |
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | directed by Rupert Julian (USA 1925), new score by Carl Davis |
PHARAO'S WIFE | directed by Ernst Lubitsch (Germany 1923), original score by Eduard Künneke |
DER ROSENKAVALIER | directed by Robert Wiene (Germany 1925), original score by Richard Strauss |
RICHARD WAGNER | directed by Carl Fröhlich (Germany 1913), original score by Giuseppe Becce, arranged by Bernd Schultheis |
ROMEO AND JULIET | directed by Lev Arnshtam and Leonid Lavrovsky (USSR 1955), original score by Sergei Prokofiev |
SAFETY LAST | featuring Harold Lloyd (USA 1923), new score by Carl Davis |
STEAMBOAT BILL JR. | featuring Buster Keaton (USA 1928), new score by Timothy Brock |
TARTUFFE – TARTÜFF | directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Germany 1926), original score by Giuseppe Becce |
THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED – DIE ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED | directed by Lotte Reiniger (Germany 1923-26), original score by Wolfgang Zeller |
THE ARTIST | directed by Michel Hazanavicius (USA 2012), original score by Ludovic Bource |
THE CIRCUS | directed by Charles Chaplin (USA 1927), original score by Charles Chaplin |
THE CROWD | directed by King Vidor (USA 1928), new score by Carl Davis |
THE GENERAL LINE (OLD AND NEW) – GENERALNAJA LINIJA (STAROJE I NOVOJE) | directed by Sergei Eisenstein (USSR 1926-29), new score by Taras Bujewski |
THE GOLD RUSH | directed by Charles Chaplin (USA 1925), original score by Charles Chaplin |
THE ITALIAN STAW HAT – UN CHAPEAU DE PAILLE D’ITALIE | directed by René Clair (France 1927), new score by Benedict Mason |
THE KID | directed by Charles Chaplin (USA 1921), original score by Charles Chaplin |
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII – GLI ULTIMI GIORNI DI POMPEI | directed by Carmine Gallone und Amleto Palerni (Italy 1926), new score by Antonio Coppola |
THE LAST LAUGH – DER LETZTE MANN | directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Germany 1924), new arrangement of Giuseppe Becce`s original score by Detlev Glanert |
THE LIVING CORPSE | directed by Fedor Ozep (Germany/ USSR 1929), compilation by Werner Schmidt-Boelcke |
THE LODGER, A STORY OF THE LONDON FOG | directed by Alfred Hitchcock (England 1926), new score by Ashley Irwin |
THE LOVE OF JEANNE NEY – DIE LIEBE DER JEANNE NEY | directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Germany 1922), new score by Bernd Thewes |
THE NEW BABYLON – NOWI WAWILON | directed by Grigori Koshinzew und Leonid Trauberg (USSR 1929), original score by Dmitri Shostakovich |
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC – LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC | directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer (France 1927), new score by Richard Einhorn |
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC – LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC | directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer (France 1927), new score by Ole Schmidt |
THE TREASURE – DER SCHATZ | directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Germany 1923), original score by Max Deutsch |
THE WHITE HELL OF PIZ PALU – DIE WEIßE HÖLLE VOM PIZ PALÜ | directed by Arnold Fanck and Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Germany 1929), new score by Ashley Irwin |
short silent films with live-orchestra | |
A DOG'S LIFE | directed by Charles Chaplin (USA 1918), new score by Carl Davis |
AN AVANT-GARDE PROGRAMME | made of films directed by Fernand Leger, Rene Clair, a.o., original and new scores by Friedhelm Döhl, Eric Satie a.o. |
SATAN’S RHAPSODY – RAPSODIA SATANICA | directed by Nino Oxilia (Italy 1917), original score by Pietro Mascagni |
THE IDLE CLASS | directed by Charles Chaplin (USA 1921), original score by Charles Chaplin |
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE | short film from "Fantasia", directed by Walt Disney (USA 1940), original score by Paul Dukas |
Sound films with live-orchestra | |
ALEXANDER NEVSKY – ALEKSANDER NEWSKIJ | historical sound film by Sergei Eisenstein (USSR, 1938), original score by Sergei Prokofiev Op. 78 (reconstructed) |
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST – a Disney film (USA 2017) | directed by Gary Tronsdale & Kirk Wise, score by Howard Ashman & Alan Menken |
DREI HASELNÜSSE FÜR ASCHENBRÖDEL | sound film directed by Václav Vorlícek (CSSR/DDR 1973), original score by Karel Svoboda |
FANTASIA LIVE, a Disney film (USA 1940 & 1999) | music compilation including works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Dukas, Elgar and Respighi |
HENRY V | historical sound film directed by Laurence Olivier (UK 1944), original score by William Walton |
IVAN THE TERRIBLE – IVAN GROSNY | historical sound film by Sergei Eisenstein (USSR, 1942-46), original score by Sergei Prokofiev Op. 116 (reconstructed) |
MARY POPPINS – a Disney film (USA 1964) | directed by Robert Stevenson, original score by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman |
MATRIX LIVE | sound film by Andy and Larry Wachowski (USA, 1999), original score by Don Davis |
ON THE WATERFRONT | sound film directed by Elia Kazan (USA 1954), original score by Leonard Bernstein |
STAR WARS Episode IV: A New Hope | directed by George Lucas (USA 1977), original score by John Williams |
STAR WARS Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | directed by Irvin Kershner (USA 1980), original score by John Williams |
STAR WARS Episode VI: Return of the Jedi | directed by Irvin Kershner (USA 1983), original score by John Williams |
VERTIGO | directed by Alfred Hitchcock (USA 1958), original score by Bernhard Herrmann |
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY | sound film by Stanley Kubrick (UK & USA 1968) with the original music - a compilation including excerpts from The Blue Danube by Johann Strauß, Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauß and Atmosphères by György Ligeti a.o. |
Silent films with live-ensemble | |
A WOMAN IN GREY, film series | directed by James Vincent (USA 1919), new score by Pierre-Michel Robineau |
A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS | directed by Charles Brown (USA 1928), new score by Carl Davis |
BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A BIG CITY – BERLIN, DIE SINFONIE DER GROßSTADT | directed by Walther Ruttmann (Germany 1927), original score by Edmund Meisel, arranged by Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen |
CRISIS; DESIRE; THE DEVIOUS PATH (varying English titles) – ABWEGE | directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Germany 1928), new score by Elena Kats-Chernin |
DR. MABUSE: THE GAMBLER, alternative title DR. MABUSE, KING OF CRIME – DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER | directed by Fritz Lang (Germany 1921/22), new score by Michael Obst |
FAUST: A GERMAN FOLK LEGEND – FAUST: EINE DEUTSCHE VOLKSSAGE | directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Germany 1926), new score by Bernd Schultheis |
EARTH – SEMLJA | directed by Alexander Dowschenko (USSR 1930), new score by Alexander Popov |
FOOLISH WIVES | directed by Erich von Stroheim (USA 1921), new score by András Hamary |
JEWISH LUCK – JIDISCHE GLIKN | directed by Alexej Granowski (USSR 1925), new score by Hans Jönson |
METROPOLIS | directed by Fritz Lang (Germany 1926), new score by Martin Matalon |
PANDORA’S BOX – DIE BÜCHSE DER PANDORA | directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Germany 1929), new score by Peer Raben |
PEOPLE ON SUNDAY – MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG | directed by Robert Siodmak and others (Germany 1929), new score by Elena Kats-Chernin |
QUEEN OF SIN AND THE SPECTACLE OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH – SODOM UND GOMORRHA - DIE LEGENDE VON SÜNDE UND STRAFE | directed by Michael Kertesz (Michael Curtiz) (Austria 1922), new score by Bernd Schultheis and Stefan Traub |
RAPIDS OF LIFE alt. title TROUBLED WATERS – JOHAN | directed by Mauritz Stiller (Sweden 1921), new score by Alexander Popov |
SADIE THOMPSON | directed by Raoul Walsh (USA 1928), new score by Carl Davis |
TABU, A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS – TABU, directed by F.W. Murnau (USA 1929-31) | new score by Violeta Dinescu |
THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG – KONJEZ SANKT PETERSBURGA | directed by Wsewolod Pudowkin (USSR 1927), new score by Alfred/ Andrei Schnittke |
THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF MR. WEST IN THE LAND OF THE BOLSHEVIKS - NEOBYTSCHAINYJE PRIKLJUTSCHENIJA MISTERA WESTA W STRANJE BOLSCHEWIKOW | directed by Lew Kuleschow (USSR 1924), new score by Benedict Mason |
THE LIGHT OF ASIA – DIE LEUCHTE ASIENS / PREM SANYAS | directed by Franz Osten (Germany 1925), new score by Pierre Oser |
THE LODGER, A STORY OF THE LONDON FOG | directed by Alfred Hitchcock (England 1926), new score by Joby Talbot |
THE PUPPET – DIE PUPPE | directed by Ernst Lubitsch (Germany 1919), new score by Martin Smolka |
TWO TIMID SOULS – LES DEUX TIMIDES | directed by Rene Clair (France 1928), new score by Bernd Schultheis |
Short silent films with live-ensemble | |
DER EWIGE ZWEIFEL | directed by Richard Oswald (Germany 1917/18), new score by Marcus M. Reißenberger |
DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS – ANDERS ALS DIE ANDEREN | directed by Richard Oswald (Germany 1919), new score by Bernd Schultheis |
THE MAGICAL CLOCK – DIE SCHWARZE KUGEL, DIE WUNDERUHR, DER ZAUBERWALD | directed by Franz Hofer and Ladislas Starewitch, new score by Bernd Thewes and original music by Paul Dessau, arranged by Bernd Thewes |
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