Third [Import] [Original recording remastered]

third [import] [original recording remastered]

Track Listings

1. Facelift [Live]

2. Slightly All the Time

3. Moon in June

4. Out-Bloody-Rageous

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese remastered reissue packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. CBS/Sony. 2004.

Third,Soft Machine,Sony Japan,Avant-Prog,British Psychedelia,Canterbury Scene,Experimental,Jazz-Rock,Pop,Prog-Rock/Art Rock,Psychedelic,Rock,Rock/Pop

Third [Import] [Original recording remastered]

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perfect score for a perfect movie
Pleasant "ethnic" melodies
Third Man & Other Original Records
The first man of the zither
This is the one you're looking for.

Third Man & Other Original Recordings
Anton Karas
Manufacturer: Jasmine Music
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Vienna, City of Dreams

ASIN: B00006J9M2
Release Date: 2004-04-05

Tracks:

Third Man Theme (The Harry Lime Theme) (Original Version)
Anton Karas Second Theme
Cafe Mozart Waltz (Original Version)
Carol Theme
That Dear Old Song (Original Version)
Rendezvous Waltz (Previously Unissued)
Farewell To Vienna (Previously Unissued)
Alt Wiener Tanz In C-Dur
Visions Of Vienna
Danube Dreams
Anton Karas Medley Pt. 1
Anton Karas Medley Pt. 2
Im In The Middle Of A Riddle (V. Kay Arment)
Where Do I Go From You? (V. Kay Armen)
Zither Rhythm Of Anton Karas
Vienna, Women And Song (Later Version)
Cherry Stones
Wo Grunes Kranzel Hangt
Silent Night, Holy Night
Vienna, City Of My Dreams
Vienna, Women And Song (Original Version)
Third Man Theme (Later Version)
Cafe Mozart Waltz (Later Version)
That Dear Old Song (Later Version)
Wenn Der Herrgott Net Will / The Third Man Theme (Brief Reprise)

Customer Reviews:

perfect score for a perfect movie.......2007-02-19

Carol Reed's veteran cinematographer Robert Krasker's quirky angles under Reed's direction perfectly framed the ready-made-for-an-art designer bombed out shadows and stark, isolated street lights of post-war Vienna and its underworld. Unique to cinema history the whole score (but for some canned incidental cafe music) was just the brilliant zither playing of Anton Karas, adding his nuances to every dramatic transition. Krasker won an Oscar, and Karas was nominated.

The "Third Man Theme" (also known as the "Harry Lime Theme") is alternately brittle, jaunty, bittersweet, romantic, wry, and even sardonic piece of music--which fits the mood of the story and the film perfectly -- that, once heard, can't be forgotten.

The "Third Man Theme" turned Anton Karas into a wealthy man after 28 years of toiling in obscurity an relative poverty in Vienna.

One night, Carol Reed was passing by a wine tavern where growers offer their own wines for sale directly, and heard Anton Karas's playing in the background. Reed had never heard a zither before and found the sound to be attractive. He approached Karas and persuaded him to play for him at his hotel, and made a recording, which Reed brought back to the studio to test. He liked the effect when the zither's sound was placed against the recorded dialogue and, ignoring the protests of many around him, hired Karas and brought him to London for 12 weeks.

Anton Karas screened the movie hundreds of times, devising music for each scene. The Third Man ended up with a vast amount of music, scored in virtually every scene of its 104 minutes. Ironically, the piece that became known as the "Third Man Theme" was something that Anton Karas had written two decades earlier and hadn't played in over 15 years. As he later explained to Reed, playing the zither for a whole night for tips was hard work, and one tended to play the easiest pieces the most often, to save the fingers.

Other zither players never got it to sound just right. The truth was that as recorded for the movie, "The Third Man Theme" was one of the first practical examples of overdubbing on a hit record, rivaling Les Paul's work--Anton Karas had gotten just the right effect working underneath Reed's kitchen table, and had gotten the piece just right by recording and mixing more than one zither part.

The Third Man was finished and prepared for release, and Reed and the production company, London Films, tried to raise interest in it through the music. None of the record companies, however, was interested in recording Karas or releasing the "Third Man Theme." The music was too strange and different, and although British movies had produced some soundtrack successes in the past, those were usually more conventional light classical pieces, not a jangly piece of music played on a central European folk instrument.

Pleasant "ethnic" melodies.......2007-01-22

The tunes on this disc have a nice, comforting sound. Some of the selections are haunting, some have a peasant-liveliness. Nothing great or revolutionary, but plain good zither music, very enjoyable.

Third Man & Other Original Records.......2006-11-10

We bought it for a friend. They loved it.

The first man of the zither.......2006-03-10

The CD didn't sound as good as the movie sound track. Ity sounded a bit rushed as if the sampling during the transfer was not sufficient

This is the one you're looking for........2004-04-26

You've been looking for the original version of the music in "The Third Man", right? Every other CD on the market wouldn't work for you. But lucky for you, this is the one! Don't go wrong.

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Blast From Our Past
two points:
One Guarantee...It's a Party Killer
These Are Original Recordings
Brassy CD

Panzer Marches

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ASIN: B00008AV59
Release Date: 2003-01-01

Tracks:

Deutschland uber Alles (choral) (German National Anthem)
Die Fahne hoch (Horst Wessel Lied, choral)
Panzerwagenlied Number 8
Panzer rollen in Afrika vor (choral)
Rheinwacht (Watch on the Rhine)
Heil Motorstandarte
Mit vereinten Kraften
NSKK Marsch
Adolf Huhnlein
Adolf Huhnlein (choral)
Steinmetzmarsch
Kavallerie Parademarsch Number 1
Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch
Fridericus Rex Grenadiermarsch
Brucker Lager Marsch
18.Husaren Marsch
Marsch aus "Das Nachtlager von Grenada"
Ich hatt einen Kameraden (choral)
Panzerwagenlied Number 9
Heia Safari (choral)

Album Description

Share a moment in history with the German soldier on the front where the sound of rousing martial music gave new strength to flagging morale or in a bomb shelter with civilians where encouraging music calmed racing hearts. More then a CD its an audio history lesson of WWII, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Third Reich. With quality you can trust, PzG nazi songs and marches are factory produced from ORIGINAL Third Reich recordings and professionally re-mastered for even listening with a musical balance between instrumental and choral marches. A Powerful musical collection for everyone interested in the heroic men and music of WWII.

Customer Reviews:

Blast From Our Past.......2006-02-17

Very interesting recordings. Thanks to the digital revolution, us Baby Boomers and their children can now hear the music of another era, that will never be broadcast on public radio stations. My one complaint is that, perhaps, the sound quality could have been improved by using the original source tapes, if available.

two points:.......2006-01-26

a. The fellow who informs us, rightly, that to buy this CD and enjoy it will ensure that no woman will want to be near one, bills himself as a "Free Thinker" -- if you're not laughing at that, you're not one, either.
b. These are VERY OLD RECORDINGS, folks. It won't be like your Coldplay album. There's no stereo or Earth-shaking bass. There are no morbid Soviet dirges. These are, to say it again, VERY OLD RECORDINGS OF ROUSING GERMAN TANK MARCHES. Approach it as such and don't write stupid reviews like, "The sound quality totally sux!"

One Guarantee...It's a Party Killer.......2005-12-04

I didn't even know that this music was still sold - mainly because I naively thought "Who in their right mind would want to listen to Nazi theme songs?" But once again I am amazed at some of humanities' xenophobia. So this review goes out to all you neo-nazis, fascists, & racists: buy this album...listen to it frequently. This will guarantee that no woman will want to be near you, and the world will be spared of your offspring.

These Are Original Recordings.......2005-08-06

As one of the reviewers has noted, these recordings are of mainly historical interest - these were mastered from old 78 rpms discs, and as such don't have the dynamic range of later recordings. These are not "DDD" disks! There are a lot of scratches and pops, but what comes through is authenticism. If you don't mind the sound of Caruso's remastered recordings, then you won't have a problem with these.

As these were studio recordings, masterminded from the Goebbels propaganda factory and destined mainly to be broadcast, many of the orchestral /band arrangments are similar - in fact most of them seem to have the same chorus voices, in that respect they do sound similar. Best listened to on an old "repro-antique radio" cd player.

Brassy CD.......2005-06-01

Viewers of a Hollywood film from the 1966, "Battle of the
Bulge", are familiar with the "Panzer Song" sung by
German tank crews before their attack on the Americans,
during late 1944. In PZG's "Panzer Marches", listeners will
be able to hear this popular tune as it was originally
performed and recorded more than sixty years ago by the
men who actually drove the usually outnumbered but never
out-classed "Panther"s and "Tiger"s against Allied
"Sherman"s, "Matilda"s and T-34s.

Other tank music featured on this brassy c.d. include
"Heil, Motorenstandarte" ("Hail, Standard of the Motorized
Divisions"), "Mit vereinigten Kraeften" ("With United
Forces"), and "Landser und Panzer". Included are two
versions of "Marsch der Panzergrenadier", but both are so
different from each other, they each make unique
contributions to the collection. The same applies to the
"Adolf Huenlein Marsch", performed with and without
chorus. Huenlein was the founder and leader of the
National Socialist motorcyclists --- Stormtroopers on
wheels, who provided escort for Hitler and his colleagues
as they drove across Germany from one mass-rally to
another. Known as the "Nationalsozialistische Kraftfahr
Korps" ("National Socialist Motorcycle Corps"), we hear the
"NSKK Marsch", with one of the Party's most catchy
melodies.

Lovers of traditional military music will search in vain for
better performances of the classic "Steinmetzmarsch", the
"Fehrberliner Rittermarsch", or "Fredericus Rex
Grenadiermarsch". These orchestral pieces, composed
long before the Third Reich, were not banned by the
postwar occupation authorities, unlike the fate of other PZG
200's selections, all of which are still outlawed in today's
German democracy.

Some of the music on "Panzer Marches" may be
identified with specific campaigns. For example, "Ade,
Polenland" is one of the few songs to come out of the brief
fighting in Poland, during 1939. Set, appropriately but
unconventionally to a polka beat, one wonders if it was
revived for the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, some years later.

"Panzer rollen in Afrika vor" ("Panzers roll ahead in
Africa"), and "Heia, Safari!" are obvious veterans of the
Afrika Korps. In the former, the chorus sings, in part, "Go
forward trough the wicked sand, and the hot, burning sun.
Hi, ya, Safari! Whenever the British lion roars, we'll shut his
big mouth!" Lyrics for "Panzer rollen in Afrika vor" begin,
"From all over Germany, the Fuehrer's soldiers in their
black uniforms came to defeat France. Now, the Panzers
are rolling through Africa. The treads clank, the motors roar.
The sun shines hot over the German Afrika Korps, but our
Panzer engines sing their song, as we drive through the
sands against the English. The Brits are afraid of the
Fuehrer's soldiers, but we fear neither death nor the devil.
Miserable English arrogance is collapsing." A
contemporary song about the Desert Fox, "Unser Rommel"
("Our Rommel"), runs, "We are the German Afrika Korps,
the Fuehrer's stalwart troops. We fight like devils, taking the
Tommies by surprise, and march to the beat of our drum.
Forward with our Rommel!"

As far as this reviewer knows, "Panzer Marches" is the
only collection to include "Lied der Panzergruppe Kleist",
named after Ewald von Kleist, who was promoted to
Fieldmarshal for his successful campaigning on the
Eastern Front, in the Caucasus. Although retired from the
Army a year before war's end, the 65 year-old man was
arrested by the Americans in 1945 and turned over to the
Soviets, in whose tender mercies he died nine years later.

Lyrics for his Panzer song read, "In the West, we showed
the enemy that we were the greater power. Whether in the
mountains or on the plains, no obstacle hinders us. We roll
on, and if we have to make sacrifices for victory, for our
country, why then, roll on! We are the Panzer Group Kleist."

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Original Third Reich Nazi Recordings
Side-stepping the censor
Very good!
General Patton Would Be Proud
SA to the front!

Stormtrooper Marches

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Horst Wessel Lied
Die Braune Kompanie (choral)
Mein Regiment-Mein Heimatland
Am Adolf Hitler Platz (choral)
Franz Seldte
Wir Sind DIe braunen Soldaten (choral)
Stahlheim-Bundesmarsch
Der Fuehrer Ruft SA-SA Voran! (choral)
Volk and Gewehr (choral)
Hindenburg Marsch
Es zittern die Morschen Knochen (choral)
In Muenchen sind viele gefallen (choral)
Weichsel und Warthe
Die alte Garde (choral)
Hakenkreuzschwur (choral)
SA Totenmarsch
Heidemarie, wenn wir am Rhein marschieren (choral)
Badenweiler Marsch
Als die Goldner Abendsonne (choral)
Ich hatt' einen Kamaraden
Deutschland erwacht (choral)
Triumphmarsch der erwachten Nation (choral)
Es pfeift von allen Daechern-SA (choral)

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Customer Reviews:

Original Third Reich Nazi Recordings.......2007-02-02

It was nice to hear some of these pieces from a historical point of view; however, the quality of the recording was lacking and quite poor to be honest. It is too bad that current conditions prevented "us" from having better quality. Perhaps in the future this will not be the case and, for historical purposes, we will be able to listen to music from the past with out variances in volume and "scratchiness."

Side-stepping the censor.......2007-01-17

As a Historian I have found that a great many films from the Third Reich era have had their sound tracks interfered with. This censorship involves turning the sound down whenever a song appears which the "guardians" of our thoughts don't like, Triumph of the Will is a good example. Likewise, compilations of archive footage will cut to another scene quickly to avoid the viewer hearing the song at any length. This CD has enabled me to hear the muted and truncated songs. Very useful.

Very good!.......2007-01-15

These contain most of the titles from the old "Hammer" cassette tape series. Yes, the quality is not up to modern day standards, but what do you expect from recordings so old? An excellent value!

General Patton Would Be Proud.......2006-02-17

SA to the front!.......2006-02-14

One of the most neglected subjects in regards the Third Reich is that of the SA, better known to history as the Stormtroopers or the Brownshirts. Armed with nothing more than their fists (and the occasional chair-leg or beer mug), these fight-loving brawlers, many of whom were veterans of the trenches of WWI, eventually bested their opposite numbers in the Communist Redfront and the Social Democratic Reichsbanner and won the streets of Germany's cities for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party. No sooner had they paved his way to power, however, than they were ruthlessly discarded, their revolutionary ideology and stubborn independence being too much for either Hitler or the German army to stomach. How would Nazi
Germany have evolved if these truly socialist revolutionaries had their way we can only wonder, but you can tell a lot about a man by the type of music he favors, and "Stormtrooper Marches" is a fascinating listen.

The album, compiled by Michael Kelly, packs 23 tunes comprising 1 hour 6.2 minutes of music, a mixture of choral renditions and instrumentals. There are some true classics here, including the anthemic "Horst Wessel Lied", the fiercely emotional "Du braune Kompanie" & "Volk und Gewehr" (People and Arms), and the exuberantly sentimental "Am Adolf Hitler Platz", "Wir Sind Die braunen Soldaten" (We Were the Brown Soldiers) and "Der Fuehrer Ruft SA -SA Voran!" (The Leader Shouts 'SA' - 'SA' to the front!). "Here Tremble the Rotten Bones" (Es zittern die Morschen Knochen) adds a playful note, as does "Heidemarie", but the solemn, funeral side is also well represented: "In Muenchen sind viele gefallen" is painfully grim, as is the "SA Totenmarsch" and the ancient farefell to fallen comrades, "Ich hatt' ein Kamerad" (from the early 19th century). One of my personal favorites, combining a sort of hopeless sentimentality with powerful imagery, "Als die Goldner Abendsonne" is also included. Finally, fans of the foot-stomping "Panzerwagen Lied" immortalized by Robert Shaw's tank crews in "The Battle of the Bulge" will enjoy the similar and quite authentic sound of the "Es pfelt von allen Daechern-SA" (It Whistles from all the Rooftops). In all, there are 15 choral and eight instrumental songs. Fans of 1920s - 1940s movies will recognize the exuberant, trumpet-laden instrumentals as the style of the day, and not merely Germany. I swear that you could exchange "Franz Seldte" with the soundtrack of Eroll Flynn's "Robin Hood" any day of the week.

What surprised me, and may surprise other first-time listeners, is how little bellicosity and aggression exists in the songs or their lyrics. They are either gushingly sentimental, sad-but-solemn or out-and-out funny. In short, the very type of music a large group of men would prefer to sing while drinking lots and lots of beer (I dare you to listen to "Victory March of the Awakened Nation" without picturing rows of swaying half-drunken stormtroops, crammed elbow-to-elbow at a beer-hall table and pounding down Lowenbrau).

I must say that this album, while very good, is inferior in my opinion to "Das Dritte Reich 1: SA", which is also available from Michael Kelly but not, apparently, on Amazon. That is a matter of my own personal taste, since I prefer lyrical songs to instrumentals and "Das Dritte Reich", while three songs shorter, has more chorals than instrumentals (I simply refuse to use the word "polka" when describing an SA song....you say "polka" and I'm looking for John Candy with an accordion).

The SA is long extinct, and in comparison with its successor the SS, virtually forgotten. When one pictures "Brownshirts" the immediate image is of thugs bashing in a shop-owners' window -- and indeed this was no doubt often the case in the Germany of the 1920s. But "Stormtrooper Marches" presents us with the other side of the coin, the boisterous and rollicking spirit of a social revolution which drew the most extraordinary miscellany of thrill-seeking brawlers, embittered ex-soldiers, fervent nationalists, ardent communists, militant socialists and free-booting mercenaries, and set them out onto hard streets to fight for a revolution which was ultimately and cynically betrayed.

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It Is What It Is
Music that moved a nation to war.
Choppy recording
A Blast From Our Past
Good music but a lack of quality of the recording

Landser Marches

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Release Date: 2003-01-30

Tracks:

Deutschlandlied
Die Fahne hoch (Horst Wessel Lied - choral)
Alte Kameraden
Das Lied der Manner vom Westwallbau (choral)
5. Niedersachsenmarsch
Frischer Mut - Leichts Blut / Potpourri (choral)
Geschwind Marsch
Koeniggraetzer Marsch
Mein Schleisier-Land (choral)
Von der Tann
Mussinan-Marsch
Vom Berge rauscht ein Wasser (choral)
Lippe Detmold, eine wunderschoene Stadt
Gruss an Kiel
Schoen ist es, Soldat zu sein (choral)
Erika-Marsch
Altdeutscher Fanfaren-Marsch
Mairkische Heide
Wildgaense rauschen durch die Nacht (choral)
Isarwinkler Schuetzenmarsch
Ich hatt einen Kameraden (choral)

Album Description

Customer Reviews:

It Is What It Is.......2007-05-17

I'm really not that happy with this music. Don't know what I was thinking when I bought it, and I'm very glad I didn't buy more than one CD from the set ... there is a CD of Luftwaffe marches, a CD of Panzer marches, Kriegsmarine marches, Landser Marches II, etc.
Obviously the Nazis just loved, loved, loved to sing and march and kill.
As one might expect, the recordings, singers and musicains are all rather low quality. Mono recordings of the great orchestras and conductors from the 1940s and 1950s are also rather poor.
I'm much happier with a Deutsche Grammophon recording of Marches. It contains two CDs, and costs the same as landser Marches. Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Octet for most of the selections. ASIN: B000001GLC.

Music that moved a nation to war........2007-01-09

As a student of the second world war, I collect music from all the countries involved. Remember, the music in this recording, although good, was sung or played over 60 years ago. It's not like your modern CD's. I recommend this and Landser Marches 2, and Blitzkreig.

Choppy recording.......2006-04-27

Good music but some tracks have abrupt stops or breaks in the recording which makes it sound choppy or like skipping. MP3 conversion seems to accentuate this even. Still I dont think its possible to find authentic 3rd Reich choral marches anywhere else so ***

A Blast From Our Past.......2006-02-17

Good music but a lack of quality of the recording.......2005-06-15

I love good songs, military or not, and I recognize that this is a good collection of military german songs. I have some of these songs recorded in the 80's and the 90's and the big difference is the quality of recording because the quality of this recording is not perfect even if it has been remastered. However, in this collection, there are 6 different CD regarding the Wehrmacht, the panzer, the Kriegmarine, the Luftwaffe and so on and if you wish to find the widest collection of German military songs from the 1933-1945 period, it is a good choice.

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Sailing back through time...

Kriegsmarine Marches

Manufacturer: Lonly Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00061W8SA
Release Date: 2004-05-20

Tracks:

Wir fahren gegen Engelland (choral)
Flieg, deutsche Fahne, flieg
Heut geht es an Bord (choral)
Seemanns los (choral)
Warte mein Ml (choral)
Windste 12 (choral)
Kameraden auf See (choral)
Mit vollem Segeln (choral)
Heut' stechen wir ins blaue Meer (choral)
Wo Matrosen sind (choral)
Michel, horch der Seewind pfeit (choral)
Altniederlisches Dankgebet
Willst du Deutscher sein (choral)
Admiral Stosch-Marsch (choral)
Wir ziehen nach Engelland (choral)
U-Boot Lied (choral)
Torpedo Los! (choral)
Homecoming report Lt G Prien U-47 (choral)
U-47 Lied (choral)
Hch, Engelland (choral)
Ritter der Nordsee - Schnellboot (choral)
Unsere Minensucher (choral)
Panzerschiffe Deutschland
Das muden ersten Seelord doch ersch (choral)
Denn wir fahren gegen Engelland (choral)

Album Description

Customer Reviews:

Sailing back through time..........2005-06-13

Some of the finest music to come out of wartime Germany was written for its navy, and "Kriegsmarine Marches" features many outstanding examples. But its cover reproduction of a painting by Third Reich artist, Claus Bergen, of a Type VII u-boat patrolling some coastal waters is itself worth the album's purchase price! "Wir fahren gegen Engelland" ("We sail against England") was perhaps the best known of its kind, with its fatalistic lyrics telling of a seaman who tells his girl that if she should receive word that he sleeps at the bottom of the ocean, not to grieve for him, but only think he shed his blood for the Fatherland. The song, sung on board famous ships like the "Bismarck" and "Scharnhorst", indeed paralleled the fate of these vessels and their crews.

Perhaps the single most popular tune to come out of the undersea service was "Warte, mein Maedel" ("Wait, my girl-friend"), likewise addressed to a sweetheart left behind, and a hit tune from 1941's acclaimed motion picture, "U-Boot West". Another submarine song, "Torpedo, los!", appropriately precedes actual radio coverage, recorded "live", of the homecoming of one of the war's outstanding captains, Guenter Prien, whose U-47 wracked revenge on Britain's chief facility at Scapa Flow by sinking the battleship, "Royal Oak", pride of the Royal Navy. It was there that German ships had scuttled themselves twenty one years before, rather than surrender. In this one minute, thirty nine-second slice of real history, the announcer describes Prien's arrival to the playing of the national anthem, the shouted greetings of his crew, and congratulations from Admiral Erich Raeder. The report is followed, appropriately enough, by "U-47 Lied" ("The Song of the U-47"): "So klein ist das Boot und so gross ist das Meer" : "So little is the boat, and so great is the sea", which swallowed U-47 with all hands during a subsequent operational cruise.

While submarine songs might be especially dramatic, other naval services are represented, including the relatively less glamorous mine-sweepers, without whom the u-boats would not have been able to leave port. A particularly brisk march is "Panzerschiffe Deutschland" ("Pocket Battleship Germany"). Renamed "Luetzow" after the outbreak of hostilities, she ended up fighting on land, when her11-inch guns were installed on the shores of the Baltic to blast Soviet hordes streaming into Eastern Europe in the closing days of the war. "Ritter der Nordsee" ("Knights of the North Sea") describes the lethal "Schnellboote" ("e-boats" to the British; known as "PT-boats" to the Americans), which almost singlehandedly aborted the Normandy Invasion before it began, when a handful of these nimble craft killed more than three thousand soldiers and sailors during an Allied training exercise in the Battle of Slapton Sands.

Listeners to "Kriegsmarine Marches" might be surprised by some selections, such as "Windstaerke 12" ("Gale Force Winds"), a medley opening with a German language version of the Mexican folk melody, "Appalona", a traditional favorite with German sailors going back to the mid-19th Century. The c.d. is not without humor, as demonstrated by "Das muss den ersten Seelord doch erschuettern", a reference to Winston Churchill and his inability to keep his ships from sinking: "How glad Churchill must be to blockade us now! `You see, it looks now black.' The German submarines are attacking with torpedoes. That's gotta shake up the First Sealord! His imperial dream of ruling the world is finished."

Certainly, the rarest selection here is the Admiral Stosch March, and, so far as this reviewer is aware, uanavailable in any other collection. The title refers to Alberecht von Stosch, founder of the modern German Navy, in 1872. Although virtually forgotten today, he was once von Bismarck's most serious political rival. His name lives again, however, in this no less obscure, though very interesting rendition. In any case, listeners to "Kriegsmarine Marches" will find themselves sailing back through time with the authentic sounds of World War Two at sea.

Average customer rating:

Not an excellent collection, but worth the money.
Performed with energy and power!

Landser Marches 2

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ASIN: B00061W8SK
Release Date: 2004-03-23

Tracks:

Les Preludes
Pariser Einzugsmarsch
Armistice & Victory Bells over France 1940 (choral)
Deutschland lles (choral)
Soldatenlied Potpourri (choral)
Marsch aus Petersburg
K Karl Marsch
Egerler Marsch
Preussens Gloria Heeresmarsch
Reichswehr Marsch
Potpourri (choral)
Ich bin der Bub von Westerwald (choral)
Dr Schanzen Sturmmarsch
Alexander marsch
Lili marlene (choral)
Im Rhythmus der Zeit/Tanzlieder
Pepita marsch
Liebling, wenn ich traurig bin (choral)
Marsch des hassischen Kreisregiments
Westerwald Marsch (choral)
Kr Funken Infantrie Marsch
Jrlieder
Reserve hat Ruh (choral)
Radetzky Marsch
Bataillion Garde
Wacht am Rhein

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Not an excellent collection, but worth the money........2005-10-14

A little scratchy in places and not a stereo recording, but remember these pieces were recorded 60+ years ago! Great choral of "Deutschland uber alles" and the rendering of "Lili Marlene" almost makes the CD by itself. Includes a great rendition of "Pariser Einzugsmarsch" - the tune the German band played when a Wehrmacht infantry division paraded on the Avenue Foch in Paris on 14 June 1940.

Performed with energy and power!.......2005-06-13

If the first volume of PZG's "Landser Marches" was "traditional", its second volume is historically narrative. It opens with a main theme from "Les Preludes", the great19th Century symphonic "tone poem", as broadcast by the Reich radio to announce the latest German victory. Hitler himself had the idea of drawing a musical fanfare from Franz Liszt's renowned "tone-poem". It is followed on this c.d. by a triumphant rendering of the "Pariser Enzugmarsch" ("Paris Entry March"), composed and first performed during Liszt's own lifetime for the 1871 arrival of Bismarck's conquering troops in the French capital, where it was not heard again until 1940.

In late June of that year, every church-bell across Germany rang for a week to celebrate the fall of France, and we hear them tolling again, just as they did then, fading with long trumpet notes. A radio broadcaster interrupts the fanfare to say, "Attention! To the entire German people: At this moment, with the old military signal, a total cessation of hostilities is declared along the entire front and throughout France." Then follows "Das Deutschlandlied", the German national anthem, based on a melody by another world-famous composer, Franz Josef Haydn. These first four selections comprise a dramatic introduction to "Landser Marches 2", with its emphasis on classic compositions, including "Preussens Gloria" (Prussia's Glory"), the famous Radetzky March (another Franz Liszt masterpiece), and the Alexander March. While these pieces may be found on other c.d.s, even in contemporary collections, they are performed with an energy, power and drive missing from most other versions, especially postwar Bundeswehr renditions.

The more obscure "Koelner Funken Infantrie Marsch", something of a collector's item, was written for military radio operators in Cologne. No less interesting and unfamiliar is the pre-Hitler Reichswehr March, which does indeed sound like something composed during a former era. Better known is the older "Watch on the Rhine", with its opening lines, "A cry roars out like the crack of thunder, like the clash of swords and death's tolling bell: `To the Rhine! To the Rhine! To the Rhine! Who will be its protector?' Dear Fatherland, rest assured. The watch on the Rhine is loyally guarding you."

"Lili Marlene" has been sung in virtually every language (Perry Como recorded it during the war, and the Internet even boasts a Latin translation!), but "Landser Marches 2" features the original version by Lallie Andersen, the gal who started it all. Ironically, the lyrics for World War Two's most famous song were composed in the First World War and set to music in 1938, before the Second World War began. Contrary to some historians, "Lili Marlene" is not about a prostitute, even though she "stands beneath a lamppost". Another misconception is the song's artificial identification with the expatriot lesbian film actress, Marlene "Dietrich" (aka Felsinger), outspoken for her visceral hatred of "everything German", who appropriated it as her "signature tune" only after the war, and Lallie Andersen was conveniently silenced behind Allied bars as a "war criminal".

Listeners fond of potpourri arrangements will find "Landser Marches 2" particularly valuable for both its samplers. The tone and quality of these selections, while clear, suggest they were recorded in the late 1920s or early `30s, before the Third Reich actually began.

Another song to have escaped the Allied censor's black mark was "Reserve hat' Ruh" ("Reservists on leave"), whose inoffensive lyrics are concerned with nothing more controversial than girl-watching at the Berlin and Metz railroad stations. The same may not be said, however, of "Liebling, wenn ich traurig bin" ("Dear, when I am sad"), which is still banned in Germany for such lines as, "Do not mourn for me, dear, if I shall fall, because at least I shall not have died as a slave of the Jews" (Judenknechte). Today's visitors to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's democracy may wish to leave "Lanser Marches 2" at home to avoid its confiscation and their arrest for violating his law against the possession of "hate music"

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"Lightning War"

Blitzkrieg
Original Third Reich Nazi Recordings
Manufacturer: PzG Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000C6Y742
Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

Westerwald; Ein Schifflein sah ich fahren; Ein Tiroler wollte jagen; Wenn wir marschieren; Argonnerwald; Zehntausend Mann; Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss: Droben im Oberland; Erika; Wohlan die Zeit ist gekommen; Das sche Land der Welt; Schatz ach Schatz (choral) 18:24
Drie Lilien; Im grald; Ihr lustigen Hannoveraner; Lore Lore; Wenn die Soldaten; Funkerlied; Hamburg ist ein sch Stchen; Panzerlied; Ich bin ein freier Wildbretschorgen marschieren wir; Es woldt' ein Mn fruh aufstehn (choral) 16:28
Unser Rommel (choral) 3:21
Parademarsch der Legion Condor (choral) 3:12
Marsch der Panzergrenadiere (choral) 3:09
Heut geht es an Bord; Jetzt kommen die lustigen Tage; Hoch auf dem geiben Wagen; Ein Helles und ein Batzen; Musketier sein lustige Br
Der mtigste K im Luftrevier (choral) 1:14
Flamme Empor (choral) 2:33
Wenn alle Untreu werden (choral) 2:33
Ich hatt ein Kameraden (choral) 2:02
Volk ans Gewehr (choral) 1:58

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This is the Third Reich Nazi CD that you have always wanted consisting of the best of both worlds! The very highest quality post war audio recordings performed by very enthusiastic and dedicated musicians. The sound quality is crisp and clear with no "snap, crackle & pop". The performers voices are strong and enthusiastic in this all choral recording!

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"Lightning War".......2006-01-20

Of all the cover art featured on PzG's c.d. collection of original Third Reich music, none are more compelling than the image of a Hitler Youth drummer facing out beneath a single word, "Blitzkrieg".

The term, "lightning war", is usually applied to German Wehrmacht close coordination of armor, infantry and air-power in stunning an opponent, then moving on as quickly as possible to the next objective, thereby keeping the initiative always rolling forward, never giving the enemy a chance to breathe.

Although some conservative generals, after the war, claimed to have invented the Blitzkrieg, it actually emerged from Adolf Hitler's eye-witness experiences in the static attrition and four-year stalemate on the Western Front, during World War One. He vowed that Germany would never again be hamstrung by the kind of military inertia that cost the lives of two million of his comrades. His first Blitzkrieg was unleashed, not on Poland, but twenty years earlier, in the streets of Munich, where his Stormtroopers made up in ruthless attack what they lacked in numbers.

As such, the appearance on this c.d. of S.A. songs, "Flamme Empor" ("Rising Flames") and "Volk ans Gewehr" ("A People in Arms"), plus the S.S. anthem, "Wenn alle untreu werden" ("When all others are disloyal"), stem from the "Kampfzeit", that period from 1919 until 1933, when the National Socialists were battling for political power in Germany.

Some listeners may find equally unusual the inclusion of the Parade March of the Condor Legion, that group of German flyers who volunteered for duty against the Communists in Spain, from 1936 to 1939. Yet, it was there that the new Luftwaffe drew and lost its first blood against Stalin's Red Air Force, and nurtured those advanced tactics that served it so well in World War Two.

The famous "Desert Fox", celebrated in "Unser Rommel" , personified the Blitzkrieg. It is here here performed by his men, who sing, "We are the German Afrikakorps, the Fuehrer's irrepressible troops. We storm forward like the devil himself, scaring off the Tommies (the British). We're not afraid of the desert sand. Despite thirst and the burning sun, we march in step with our Rommel. Forward, forward, forward with our Rommel! The British fear us like the Plague. Although Churchill and Roosevelt are burning with rage against us, we throw the enemy out of every land. The drum beats a general march: `Forward with our Rommel!' With us, battle and victory are one and the same thing. We march along side the Italian armies. When once again the sun of peace shines on us, we'll go back to Germany. But if an enemy bullet finds us, then we'll be laid in peace under the desert sands, and listen once more to the drum-beat: `Forward with our Rommel!'"

This new c.d. is different than most in its genre, because it opens with a long medley of German military songs and marches, well orchestrated and performed by a large chorus. While selections such as "Erika", "Das Funkerlied" ("Song of the Radio Man"), and "Das Panzerlied" were Second World War favorites, "Drei Lilien" ("Three Lilies"), "Zehntausend Mann" ("Ten Thousand Men"), "In gruenen Wald" ("In the green woods"), and "Wohlan, die Zeit ist kommen" ("Well, the time is coming") are vintage World War One.

The Blitzkrieg was not confined to the land, as suggested by several Kriegsmarine songs featured here, including ""Ein Schifflein sah ich fahren" ("I saw a little ship sailing"), "Hamburg ist ein schoenes Staedchen" ("Hamburg is a beautiful city"), and "Heut' geht es an Bord" ("Today we go on board"). For all its success, the Blitzkrieg demanded a high price to pay in terms of human loss, as expressed in the Wehrmacht dirge, "Ich hatt' einen Kameraden" ("I once had a comrade"), which mourns the death of those who made victory possible.

PzG's latest c.d. of the same name goes far to capture something of the spirit that motivated the remarkable times in which this haunting music was performed. - Marc Roland

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Invaluable sound documentation of unique period of history.

Fallschirmjäger & Flieger Marches

Manufacturer: Independent Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00012KGCE
Release Date: 2003-11-01

Tracks:

Bomben auf Engelland (choral)
Bombenflieger Marsch (choral)
Hermann Gg Marsch (choral)
Fliegerkameraden (choral)
Lied der Balloniere (choral)
Militignal Marsch
JU 88 Lied (Choral)
Kampfgeschwader Immelmann
Revere Marsch (choral)
Aufws zur Sonne
Flieger Empori (choral)
Deutscher Flieger Marsch
Flieger sind Sieger (choral)
Flieger Fanfare
Lied der Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke choral)
Jadgeschwader Richtofen
Bruno Loerzer (choral)
Prinz Max Brigade
Schluhdie Sonne (choral)
Marsch der Fallschirmjr (choral)
Fallschirmjr
Rot scheint die Sonne (choral)
Combat report of FJ assualt on Crete
Stuka Lied (choral)

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Quality of Cd .......2007-01-10

Quality of Cd leaves much to be desired, but delivery was prompt.

Invaluable sound documentation of unique period of history........2005-06-13

"Fallschirmjaeger & Flieger Marches" PZG c.d.s are outstanding for the attractive artwork featured on their covers, and "Fallschirmjaeger & Flieger Marches" is no exception. Like "Kriegsmarine Marches", with its u-boat painting by Claus Bergen, his portrait of Stuka dive-bombers attacking through the clouds adorns this volume. It originally appeared in a 1939 issue of "Luftmacht Deutschland" ("Airpower Germany") as an advertisement for Dessau's Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG, the factory responsible for manufacturing some of the finest aircraft of World War Two, and whose company song is featured in the album itself.

Listeners also have an opportunity to hear the real thing in action during the one minute-forty second sound-bite from a German newsreel documenting the 1941 invasion of Crete. Among the most dramatic soundtracks ever recorded, Stukas scream during steep dives and bombs explode to the accompaniment of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" (a dramatic device borrowed forty years later by Francis Ford Coppola for his film, "Apocalypse Now"), while an excited narrator describes the combined parachute assault. The effect on German audiences of the time, witnessing all this on a big screen, must have been overwhelming. Paratroopers featured in the newsreel clip are represented by "Schoen bluehn' die Heckenrosen" ("Beautiful bloom the hedgeroses"), "Marsch der Fallschirmjaeger" ("March of the Paratroopers"), and "Rot scheint die Sonne" ("Red shines the Sun").

The Stuka even has its own song, the final selection in this collection which opened with "Bomben auf Engelland" by Norbert Schultze, composer of the Second World War's most famous melody, "Lily Marlene". The chorus sings, "We're going to hunt the British lion in a final, decisive battle. We hold judgment on a world empire which will pass away. That will be our proudest day. Comrade, kiss the girls goodbye! The order now is, `Start your engines!' Comrade, rush at the enemy! Bomb England!" Schultze passed away just two years ago.

PZG 210 is not confined, however, to music from "Hitler's War", to borrow the title from one of David Irving's books. The "Bombenflieger Marsch" and "Revere Marsch" were favorites of the Condor Legion, which flew three years before in the Spanish Civil War. And the "Bruno Loerzer Marsch", "Jadgeschwader Richtofen Marsh", "Lied der Balloniere" ("Song of the Balloonists"), "Kampfgeschwader Immelmann", and "Prinz Max Brigade" all harken back much earlier, to World War One. So too, the "Herrmann Goering March" celebrates the man who began building the Luftwaffe in 1935.

The "JU 88 Lied" ("Song of the Ju 88") was sung by crews of one of the Second World War's most versatile aircraft, a twin-engine medium bomber that helped tip the scales for victory in Norway, and went on to serve as a deadly torpedo-plane against Allied convoys, flew in the reconnaissance mode, and served as a night-fighter, even a radio-controlled bomb. The Ju 88 was so successful in all these roles it generated songs like "Flieger sind Sieger" ("Flyers are Victors"), music filled with pride and self-confidence after the Luftwaffe trounced one Allied air force after another.

All of the selections featured by "Fallschirmjaeger & Flieger Marches" have a sound different from their other Wehrmacht counterparts, although it is nonetheless firmly rooted in traditional German military music. Certainly, there has never been heard anything before or since quite like the powerful "Deutscher Flieger Marsch ("German Flyer March") or "Flieger Fanfare", both scored for what must have been exceptionally large brass bands. They play with a weight, precision and, most crucially, a spirit unique to the times in which these recordings were made. As such, they are invaluable sound documentation of a unique period in modern history.

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Honors Military Musical Heritage

March Masters
Original Third Reich Nazi Recordings
Manufacturer: PzG Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000HOJ3DY
Release Date: 2006-08-01

Tracks:

Fehrbelliner Rider March
Frederick the Great March Collection
Grosser Zapfenstreich
Presentation of the Castle Guard
17th and 18th Century Regimental Marches

Product Description

Share a moment in history with the German soldier on the front where the sound of rousing martial music gave new strength to flagging morale or in a bomb shelter with civilians where encouraging music calmed racing hearts. More then a CD its an audio history lesson of WWII, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Third Reich. With quality you can trust, PzG March Masters nazi songs and marches are factory produced from ORIGINAL Third Reich as well as postwar historic recordings and professionally re-mastered for even listening with a musical balance between instrumental and choral marches. A Powerful musical collection for everyone interested in the heroic men and march music of WWII. TOTAL PLAYING TIME 46:29

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Honors Military Musical Heritage.......2007-03-30

Every Western nation honors its military musical heritage. America has its Souza marches, and Britain celebrates its annual Edinburgh tattoo. Less well known outside Central Europe is die Grosser Zapfenstreich ("the Great Beat"), a military ceremony performed in Germany and Austria for more than three centuries. Its earliest known reference occurred in a Prussian Army training manual of 1596, but was generally known many years before publication.

Die Grosser Zapfenstreich was described in detail for the first time by Hans von Fleming, a Saxon major, in his 1726 book, Der vollendete deutsche Soldat ("The Perfect German Soldier"). "The Great Beat" originated as an evening concert of popular melodies for soldiers as entertainment at the end of a hard day's work or fighting. Over time, new marches were added, but some of the oldest ones were never deleted. Prussia's King Friedrich Wilhelm III had its repertoire formally arranged in 1813 to include the presentation of arms and a non-denominational prayer, the first non-German music in die Grosser Zapfenstreich. He had been so moved by the Russian choral anthem, "I pray to the power of Love", by Dimitri Bortnjansky (1751-1825), that he ordered its inclusion, and it has remained ever since.

With the proliferation of great military musical composition throughout the 19th Century, many new martial airs crowded into the repertoire. To standardize performances, Friedrich William Wieprecht, director of die Preussischer Wach Musikkorps ("the Prussian Guards' Music Corps"), selected and skillfully wove together a harmonious variety of new and traditional marches, anthems, and fanfares to form a final basis for "The Great Beat". Its debut in honor of a state visit by Russian Czar Nicholas I to Berlin on12 May 1838 transformed die Grosser Zapfenstreich from casual evening entertainment into Germany's highest tribute. Wieprecht's version endured unchanged for the next thirty three years, when the "Netherlands Hymn of Thanksgiving", by Adriaen Valerius, was added after the victory over France, in 1871.

Beginning in 1922, one stanza of the national anthem, das Deutchlandlied, concluded each performance. Die Grosser Zapfenstreich went unaltered throughout the Third Reich, but was banned by the occupation authorities after World War Two. It was reinstituted in 1962 by the East German Communists in an effort to arouse patriotic support for their "Democratic Republic". But substitution of half the traditional music with Marxist propaganda pieces and replacement of das Deutschlandlied with "For the Peace of the World", by the Jewish Soviet composer, Dimitri Shostakovich, failed to emotionally compensate for the Berlin Wall. Prior to this mangled revival across the wire, West German authorities "decriminalized" die Grosser Zapfenstreich, minus the national anthem.

Despite its broad and enduring popularity ever since, numerous "German" politicians continue to agitate for its abolition. Among its most vocal detractors is Socialist Party spokesman, Hans Koschnick, who denounces the "Great Beat" as "pre-democratic", "obsolete", and "a lingering embarrassment in the face of other peoples". During 1996, his SPD joined forces with the "Party of Democratic Socialism", and the better-known "Green Party" to outlaw die Grosser Zapfenstreich. When their attempt narrowly failed to carry a majority vote in the Bundestag, they sought a compromise by calling for removal the Russian and Dutch hymns from the ceremonial concert. Since then, 21st Century efforts to "re-criminalize" the old music have gathered political strength, especially in view of Germany's burgeoning immigrant populations with their political representatives in the German government, and observers believe abolition of die Grosser Zapfenstreich is only a matter of time. If so, then the recordings featured on March Masters may soon become rare collectors' items.

When listening to them, audiences should understand that the Grosser Zapfenstreich experience was not exclusively musical. It involved a military band, a pair of honor guards, and a formation of torch-bearers. The event begins when the troop commander marches up to the person to be honored, formally addresses him, then orders the concert to begin with the Serenade. As such, the "Great Beat" is pomp and ceremony at its most elegant and dramatic. Side One of Marsch-Musik Non-Stop is listed as "Historisches Marsch-Potpourri", but its first part is entirely Zapfenstreich, melded to a variety of related marches, performed by the Grosses Blasorchester, Carl Woitschach conducting. He was an outstanding Kapellmeister from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, when this performance, among the finest ever recorded, was made.

Particularly interesting (and authentic) is an unexpectedly clear recording from 1898 of the Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch (cavalry).

In the final selection of March Masters, the Wachbatallion Berlin features the spoken orders heard in die Grosser Zapfenstreich, the heirloom of another time that has nonetheless lost none of its power to impress.

- Marc Roland

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