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03 March 2024 Lörrach (Germany)
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) Blackmail (1929)
Basil Sinfonietta conducted by Titus Engel - Burghof Lörrach
Program Info: Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) Blackmail (1929) – World premiere of the film concert with new film music for orchestra premiered by MORITZ EGGERT (*1965)
«Blackmail» is a 1929 British thriller, masterfully narrated by Alfred Hitchcock. Thematically surprisingly topical, Hitchcock tells a veritable #metoo story in this silent film classic under the auspices of the time. He lets his main character successfully fight against the most diverse forms of male importunity and blackmail - and this in strong images that still impress today.
In a co-production with ZDF and ARTE, the Basel Sinfonietta presents the new film music for Hitchcock's crime film, commissioned from the German composer Moritz Eggert.
Moritz Eggert, who describes himself as the "Bad Boy of New Music", mercilessly mocks stereotypes of new music and satirises them with relish. For Hitchcock's classic, he deliberately wrote humorous, and above all emotional, music "from the gut", which, however, developed an artistic independence and also represented a homage to the film composer Bernhard Herrmann, whom Eggert deeply admired.
The Basel Sinfonietta brings to mind and contrasts Hitchcock's silent film with Moritz Eggert's music. An evening in the Burghof Lörrach where past and present, film and contemporary music are reflected - and give an idea that yesterday is relevant today.
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