Malte Müller
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A fun version of “We wish you a Merry Christmas” arranged in the style of John Williams:
Here is also a short making of (German only, maybe subtitle work in English, I only get German ones…):
A little mistake in the interview when co/main arranger mentions Williams would be a a brass player himself. Of course he is pianist.
For the Germans among us: RBB will broadcast a recording of the anniversary live show for Thomas on December 6th at 20:15.presented by Oliver Kalkhofe.
Edit – Link to the show article: https://www.rbb-online.de/fernsehen/programm/index.htm/from=06-12-2025_06-00/to=07-12-2025_06-00.html
What arrived about two weeks later was a copy of Intrada’s DAMNATION ALLEY in excellent condition. For a cent. Probably the best deal I have ever made on a CD. 🙂
That’s an awesome deal indeed!
Here are some stats about the German music market:
https://www.musikindustrie.de/wie-musik-zur-karriere-werden-kann/markt-bestseller/musikindustrie-in-zahlen-2024Indeed the dance scenes are fun especially today as are some of creative choices for consoles. I believe you can find all 7 episodes on Youtube.
Today the German film composer Peter Thomas would have turned 100. Here his probably most famous theme to the series RAUMPATROUILLE (SPACE PATROL) with the original series intro (but without German voiceover):
In all honesty. I could pick a title from his catalogue at random, and whilst it’s playing consider it a favourite. The ones I’m least fond of are the ones that seem as if they’re written for a lesser Blake Edwards comedy.
If you want to be a little nasty you could say that Morricone re-used as lot of stylisms that are typical for specific years. So you may even confuse some scores at times if you are not paying that much atention 😉
Interestingly I never used any film theme or else for a ring tone or anything else. I would probably answer the phone even less quickly then 😉
I do connect Martin Bötchers Karl May scores to driving through the country though because in my childhood we listened to that in the car when driving on vacation a lot.
Indeed, seems season 1 has 2:33 hours and season 2 “just” 1:40 hours. Still plenty as surely season 2 will re-use a lot of themes introduced in season 1 already. (Do I sound like Thor ;-))
(had we not been amateurs, it would have been a rights issue nightmare, I’m sure).
I guess it technically was, just that no one cared for it 😉 Here you would have to pay the GEMA for using in any public, non private performance (to be more exact the organisator of the event has to). Amateur or not does not matter at all.
The thing is, I don’t find “James Bond” music particularly different from any other film music…
Probably the reason. If you grew up with something you have a different connection to it even if you wouldn’t otherwise with the same music.
David Arnold sounds like David Arnold
Speaking of Arnold I find that the recent scores I heard by him starting with SHERLOCK don’t really sound that much like ID4, STARGATE or his Bond scores at all anymore. Not only because there is no huge orchestra I think.
I found the double album for season 1 a little too long and the one for season 2 a bit too short. Much good stuff left off.
Probably as usual different opinions. I have to admin I didn’t listen to the season 1 one again since I just watched it and don’t have the season 2 one yet at all. Funds in any case will not allow to get all these individual extra albums anyway…
Those boxsets are exactly what is also available digitally already, right? I just watched season 1 and 2 the first time. Glady one of our public broadcasters somehow licened it for broadcast and for limited time also for streaming (incl. the English version gladyl). Not Shore but somehow following the general sound. IMHO very well done and very “old school” present in the episodes. But I also figure the two “best of” 2CD albums will do for me. As much as I like McCreary and that he gets our lenghly albums in general there is often quite some filler stuff.
In the early 90s there were a few silent movie screening with an old 90 year old piano player who already accompanied those in the 1920s. These screenings were quite popular, but I missed out on these thinking I could go there any time and then it was over.
That probably would have been Willy Sommerfeld. Sadly never saw him live but he was even featured on TV over here as teh “last silent movie pianist” who actually really played to silents. He was basically active until his passing at 103 in 2007. There is a website about a documentation and a German wikipedia entry:
https://www.willysommerfeld.de/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_SommerfeldI saw this far younger pianist once here in Hamburg playing to NOSFERATU:
https://www.stummfilmkonzerte.de/glossar/personen/bothmerstephan.htmlBut now here in Berlin we have a cinema were regularly silent movies with full film orchestra are performed.
I guess that would be the Babylon right?:
https://babylonberlin.eu/
