Category:  Symphonic / Orchestral , Recordings , Film Music

A German cinema movie 1991 WILDFEUER. Here arranged for symphonic brass and wind orchestra by Philip Sparke. - WILDFEUER, the story of the farmer's daughter Emerenz from the Bavarian Forest. She breaks out of the village milieu and wants to become a poet against all social rules. The music correlates with the self-confident protagonist: a fascinating mixture of sensuality, energy and melancholy. The soundtrack received the German Film Music Award "Filmband in Gold" in 1992, today "Lola".

Duration: 12:00

Instrumentation: Symphonic wind orchestra

Introduction: WILDFEUER, the story of the farmer's daughter Emerenz from the Bavarian Forest. She breaks out of the village milieu and wants to become a poet against all social rules. The music correlates with the self-confident protagonist: a fascinating mixture of sensuality, energy and melancholy. The soundtrack received the German Film Music Award "Filmband in Gold" in 1992, today "Lola".
On the one hand there is the main theme, full of optimism composed for a character who never gives up and dreams of the utopia "America". The counterpart is the "poetesses" theme, quiet, introverted as longing. Composed to the rhythm of a waltz, it is also assigned to the deaf-mute Gottfried.

World premiere:  06.01.1997, Tauberbischofsheim

Performers at world premiere: Taubertal Wind Musician Days 97 orchestra; direction: Philip Sparke

Records:  Bauer recording studio Ludwigsburg, title: German Soundtrack,  1997

Performers on recording: Taubartal Wind Musician Days 97 orchestra; direction: Philip Sparke