Hanns Eisler - Keiner oder alle - Kampfmusik

This album collects GDR recordings of Eisler's best-known popular choral music from the early 30s, originally composed for street demonstrations and political cabaret in Weimar-era Berlin.

The album includes good performances of Erich Weinert's "Red Wedding" (not a Communist precursor to Billy Idol's "White Wedding", but a reference to Wedding, a working-class district in Berlin), plus "Freedom Song", "Bankenlied", "Einheitsfrontlied", and Eisler's band orchestration of the German socialist classic, "Brüder zur Sonne, zur Freiheit".

The title is derived from the Brecht/Eisler chorus, "Nobody or Everybody".

For some listeners, these songs will be an acquired taste, but it is worthwhile to compare the difference between Eisler's jazz-influenced "swinging" march style and the heavy, sentimental, beer-cellar style of Nazi "mass songs" from the same period.

Hanns Eisler - Keiner oder alle - Kampfmusik
(256 kbps, cover included)