Germany 2025

Composing music for pictures is about the same as setting a text to music or expressing a poetic-lyrical idea: it is about looking “behind the façade” of a situation, capturing the spiritual and psychological aspects behind a situation or thing. Good and independent film music is never just an external description and duplication of the image: it must capture the essence, the “right vibration”, touch the deep inner core of an invisible world that remains hidden to the visual eye, which is only focused on the external.

From the fragile democracy of the Weimar Republic to the brutal tyranny of the Nazi regime, this in-depth series explores how Germany's descent into chaos paved the way for Adolf Hitler's rise to power. After World War I, Germany faced economic collapse, political instability, and widespread social unrest, creating the perfect storm for radical ideologies to flourish. Tracing the Nazis' emergence from the fringes of politics to their consolidation of power, the series reveals the pivotal events, propaganda, and policies that reshaped Germany into a totalitarian state….

Recorded At – Grugahalle, Essen, West Germany 25th June 1966 (Evening Show). Recorded At Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, West Germany 24th June 1966.

A protégé of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler, from 1907 Klemperer was appointed to a succession of increasingly senior conductorships in opera houses in and around Germany. Between 1929 and 1931 he was director of the Kroll Opera in Berlin, where he presented new works and avant-garde productions of classics. He was from a Jewish family, and the rise of the Nazis caused him to leave Germany in 1933. Shortly afterwards he was appointed chief conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and guest-conducted other American orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic and later the Pittsburgh Symphony, which he reorganised as a permanent ensemble.

Haddaway was born in Trinidad and Tobago. His father was a marine biologist from Germany and his mother was a local nurse.

[Enji’s] return is spellbinding, her dreamy voice searching over tender piano and weighty double bass. - The Guardian on 'Ulbar'