“To experience music as the star of show,” swooned the composer Don Davis upon listening to his own score for THE MATRIX live at London’s Royal Albert Hall in October of 2011. Around 2,000 viewers will have the opportunity enjoy the concert experience on May 19 at the Gasteig in Munich. The 95-strong musicians of the NDR Radiophilharmonie under the conductor Frank Strobel will present the music for the four-time Oscar-winning science fiction classic.

The specially designed film version for MATRIX LIVE – FILM IN CONCERT consists exclusively of dialogue and sound effects. Sound designers Holger Schwark und Gero Meissner mix altogether 24 different sound tracks on location and create a unique surround-sound with a complex loud speaker system that will immerse viewers in the world of THE MATRIX.

Two days previously, on May 17, the film concert will be travel to Hamburg’s O2-World with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under the baton of Frank Strobel.

Tickets are still available for the concerts at the O2-World Hamburg (Mai 17, 2013, 20:00) and Munich’s Gasteig (May 19, 2013, 20:00).

MATRIX LIVE – FILM IN CONCERT is a co-production of the European FilmPhilharmonic Institute and the NDR Radiophilharmonie.

On the occasion of Richard Wagner’s bicentenary, ZDF/ARTE, together with the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, will present Carl Froehlich’s early work RICHARD WAGNER on May 22, 2013. The silent film of 1913 in fact embodies the first artistic portrait of the composer in the history of film and today functions as a documentary, for Giuseppe Becce—both the leading actor and composer of the film score—appears as a mirror image of Wagner.

As the production team could not acquire the copyright for Wagner’s original compositions—Cosima Wagner held the entire film as a thing of the devil—Becce composed music that approximates Wagner without being able to attract accusations of plagiary.  

For the premiere of the reconstructed tinted film, which includes a various scenes from Wagner’s operas, the composer Bernd Schultheis has devised an orchestral version of Becce’s original music, which the German State Philharmonic of Rheinland-Pfalz will perform for the first time under Frank Strobel.

Tickets are available for the premiere through the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

Subsequent performances under Strobel follow on May 24 with the German State Philharmonic of Rheinland-Pfalz in Kaiserslautern; the Altenburg-Gera Philharmonic Orchestra in Gera (June 12-13) and Altenburg (June 14); as well as the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra in Bayreuth (October 6) and Nuremberg (October 22-23).

A co-production of Deutschlandradio Kultur, the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation, the German State Philharmonic of Rheinland-Pfalz and ZDF in collaboration with ARTE—in partnership with the Eye Film Institute Netherlands, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Executive producers: European FilmPhiharmonic Institute and 2eleven // contemporary music projects.

Starting this summer, a new version of the concert suite from the film LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING is available exclusively through the European FilmPhilharmonic Institute. Orchestrated for a large symphony orchestra, Howard Shore’s suite brings to the ear unmistakable themes. The work will have its first performance on October 20, 2013 at the Konzerthaus Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Subsequent concerts are planned, including with the Spanish National Orchestra Madrid in January 2014.

More new tracks:

John Williams, "Dartmoor, 1912" from WAR HORSE

Alan Silvestri, opening titles and end credits from FORREST GUMP

Michael Jary, arr. Marco Jovic, UFA-film track medley

Peter Kreuder, "I don’t need a Million" from HELLO JANINE (1939)

Ingo Luis (Arr.), "Muppets & More" (The Muppet Show – Maja the Bee - Wickie and the strong Men - Heidi - Tom and Jerry)

The complete list of around  400 available film music tracks is available online in our FILMPHILHARMONIC EDITION:
http://www.filmphilharmonie.de/index.php?id=138&no_cache=1