Gott, Kaiser, Vaterland: Military and Patriotic Music of Imperial Germany in Archival Recordings, 1903-1915

From the Artist

Brandenburg Historica LLC was founded in 1996 by a group of longtime and enthusiasts of German military music. In 2005 we launched our in-house Brandenburg Music Label, which specializes in archival reissues of vintage German military music recordings from 1900 - 1945.
We intend to portray this important musical genre in its proper historical context through a lengthy series of scholarly reference CDs, each presenting a comprehensive depiction of the martial music of one particular era, military unit or branch of service. Each Brandenburg CD features definitive, fully restored and remastered performances of classic German marches (and/or important period vocal works) accompanied by detailed liner notes that encompass all information relevant to the musical period or subject presented. Our huge in-house archive of over one thousand 78 RPM shellac records from the golden age of German military band music, including vocal and instrumental performances of songs and marches from both world wars and featuring recordings by such legendary bandmasters as Adolf Becker, Fritz Brase, Friedrich Ahlers, Carl Woitschach and Hermann Mueller-John, is available to producers for use in film and television productions requiring historically accurate, period musical accompaniment.
Brandenburg Historica's bilingual staff is well versed in German cultural- and political history, being able to draw on over thirty years of collective experience in studying and retailing German military music, German language books and German military artifacts.

Product description

This TWENTY-FIVE-TRACK CD-Compilation presents the marches, anthems and "Vaterlandslieder" that animated the German Empire of the Hohenzollern Emperors from 1871 to 1918, with PERIOD performances by the bands of the élite guard regiments of the Prussian Army, German soldiers' choruses and leading classical artists of the Wilhelmian era. The ancient recordings assembled in this compilation date from 1903 to 1915 and have been painstakingly restored and reengineered to maximize the surprising degree of fidelity already inherent to them WITHOUT altering their "imperial" ambience in ANY way whatsoever. This album presents the sounds of the ACTUAL military bandsmen and vocalists of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Germany and also features many long-forgotten treasures of German military music, all presented EXACTLY as recorded in the German Empire of NINETY- TO ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. As an added bonus the CD is accompanied by a lavish, twenty-page illustrated booklet that features a detailed discussion of German military bands, German martial music and the development of the German Empire after 1871., ISBN13: B000EON6GM ISBN10: B000EON6GM Material Type: audioCD