Repertoire in conformity with Covid-19 regulations
Music is our passion. But how can we keep music alive in these times? Matching great music with safe performance practices is now essential. With this idea in mind, we have prepared for you a dynamic repository of works that are compatible with the most common Covid-19 regulations.
Film Concerts with a
duration under 90 minutes
orchestrated for less than 48 musicians
If you don’t find what you are looking for, we’ll be happy to assist you! Drop a line to: welcome@filmphilharmonie.de

A DOG’S LIFE (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1918)
Comedy
Music: Charles Chaplin (1959), arr. by Timothy Brock (2003)
Instrumentation: 1.0.1.1 – 0.1.1.0 – 1perc – pno – str
Musicians: 13
Duration: 38 min.

ALICE FIREFIGHTER I ALICE HELPS THE ROMANCE I ALICE IN THE WOOLY WEST (Walt Disney, USA, 1926-1928)
Animation
Music: Paul Dessau
Instrumentation: 1/picc.1.1/asx.0 – 0.1.1.0 – 2 perc (incl. Timp) – pno – {bjo} – str 3.2.0.1.1
Musicians: 16
Duration: 7 min. each film

AN ANDALUSIAN DOG (Luis Buñuel, France, 1928)
Avant-garde
Music: Richard Wagner and Arie Malando
Instrumentation: 2.1.2.1 – 2.2.btbn.0 – tmp.3perc – str 7.6.5.4.3
Musicians: 40
Duration: 15 min.

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei M. Eisenstein, Russia, 1925)
Drama/War
Music: Edmund Meisel, adapted by Helmut Imig
Instrumentation: 1/picc.1/ca.1.0 – 1.2.1.0 – timp.2perc – pno – str 8.7.6.5.4
Musicians: 31
Duration: 75 min.

BERLIN. DIE SINFONIE DER GROßSTADT (Walter Ruttmann, Germany, 1927)
Documentary/Avant-garde
Music: Edmund Meisel, adapted by Mark Andreas Schlingensiepen
Instrumentation: 2.2.2+asx.1 – 2.1.1.0 – 2perc – pno – db
Musicians: 16
Duration: 65 min.

CARMEN (Cecil B. DeMille, USA, 1915)
Opera/Drama
Music: Georges Bizet, arr. by Samuel Roxy Rothafel & Hugo Riesenfeld
Instrumentation: 1.0.2.0 – 0.2.1.0 – timp.2perc – pno – str 2.2.2.2.1
Musicians: 19
Duration: 65 min.

EASY STREET (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1917)
Comedy
Music: Carl Davis
Instrumentation: 1/picc.1.2.1 – 2.1.1.0 – 2perc – pno –str5tet
Musicians: 16-17
Duration: 23 min.

FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale, USA, 1931)
Horror/Science fiction
Music: Michael Shapiro
Instrumentation: 1.1.1.1 – 1.1.1.1 – timp.1perc – pno/synth – str5tet
Musicians: 15, adaptable into a theater orchestra version (25-35 players)
Duration: 71 min.

HOW TO MAKE MOVIES (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1918)
Comedy/Documentary
Music: Carl Davis
Instrumentation: 1/picc.1.1/Escl+1/asx.1 – 2.3.1.0 – timp.1perc – pno/cel/hrm – str 5.5.2.2.1
Musicians: 29
Duration: 13 min.

IM KAMPF MIT DEM BERGE (Arnold Fanck, Germany, 1921)
Documentary/Adventure
Music: Paul Hindemith, adapted by Frank Strobel
Instrumentation: 1/picc.1.1.0 − 0.1.1.0 − timp.3perc – pno.harm − str 5.4.0.3.2(1)
Musicians: 24
Duration: 61 min.

SHOULDER ARMS (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1918)
Comedy
Music: Charles Chaplin (1959), restored for live performance by Timothy Brock (2004)
Instrumentation: picc.0.1.1 – 0.1.1.0 – 1perc – pno – str
Musicians: 12
Duration: 47 min.

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner/Buster Keaton, USA, 1928)
Comedy/Slapstick
Music: Timothy Brock
Instrumentation: 1+1/picc.1/ca.1+1/bcl.1 – 2.3.2.1/ssph – timp.3perc – hp – bjo – str 10.8.0.4.3
Musicians: 45
Duration: 71 min.

SYLVESTER (Lupu Pick, Germany, 1923/1924)
Drama
Music: Klaus Pringsheim
Instrumentation: 1.1.1.0 – 0.1.0.0 – timp.3perc – pno.harm – str 10.8.0.4.3
Musicians: 35
Duration: 79 min.

TARTUFFE (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Germany, 1925)
Comedy
Music: Giuseppe Becce
Instrumentation: 1+1/pic.2.2.1+1/cbsn – 2.2.1.0 – timp.2perc – hp – str
Musicians: 47
Duration: 69 min.

THE ADVENTURER (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1917)
Comedy
Music: Carl Davis
Instrumentation: 1/picc.1.2.1 – 2.1.1.0 – 2perc – pno –str5tet
Musicians: 16-17
Duration: 20 min.

THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (Lotte Reiniger, Germany, 1926)
Animation/Fantasy
Music: Wolfgang Zeller, adapted by Jens Schubbe (2017)
Instrumentation: 1.1.1.1 – 1.0.0.0 – timp.2perc – pno/org/cel – str 2.2.2.2.1
Musicians: 18
Duration: 66 min.

THE CURE (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1917)
Comedy
Music: Carl Davis
Instrumentation: 1/picc.1.2.1 – 2.1.1.0 – 2perc – pno –str5tet
Musicians: 16-17
Duration: 23 min.

THE GOLD RUSH (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1925)
Comedy
Music: Charles Chaplin (1942), restored for live performance by Timothy Brock (2007)
Instrumentation: 1/picc.1/ca.1/bcl.1 – 1perc – pno/cel – 2.2.2.2.1 – {acc}
Musicians: 15
Duration: 88 min.

THE IMMIGRANT (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1917)
Comedy
Music: Carl Davis
Instrumentation: 1/picc.1/ca.2.1 – 2.1.1.0 – 2perc (incl. Timp) – pno – hp* – str5tet * alternative piano part available with harp cues
Musicians: 18
Duration: 25 min.

THE KID (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1921)
Comedy/Drama
Music: Charles Chaplin (1971), restored for live performance by Timothy Brock (2007)
Instrumentation: 1/picc.1{/ca}.1.1 – 1.0.0.0 – 1perc – pno – str 2.2.2.2.1
Musicians: 16
Duration: 60 min.

DER LETZTE MANN (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Germany, 1924)
Drama/Kammerspielfilm
Music: Giuseppe Becce, arranged by Detlev Glanert (2002)
Instrumentation: 1+1/picc.1+1/ca.2.1+1/cbn – 2.2.1.0 – timp.2perc – pno.harm – str
Musicians: 48
Duration: 88 min.

THE PILGRIM (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1923)
Comedy
Music: Charles Chaplin (1959), restored for live performance by Timothy Brock (2002)
Instrumentation: 1+1/picc.1/ca.2.1 – 2.3.2.1 – 2perc (incl. Timp) – pno/cel – hp.gtr – acc – str 8.8.6.4.2
Musicians: 48
Duration: 50 min.

THE SNOWMAN (Dianne Jackson, UK, 1982)
Drama/Fantasy
Music: Howard Blake
Instrumentation: 2/picc.1/ca.1+1/bcl.1 – 2.1.0.0 – 2perc – pno/cel – hp – str 4.4.2.2.1 – boy soprano
Musicians: 29
Duration: 26 min.

THE TREASURE (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Germany, 1922)
Drama
Music: Max Deutsch
Instrumentation: 1.1.1.0 – 0.1.1.0 – timp.2perc.pno.harmonium – strings 4.4.0.3.2
Musicians: 23
Duration: 79 min.

THE WOMAN ONE LONGS FOR (Kurt Bernhardt, Germany, 1929)
Melodrama featuring Marlene Dietrich
Music: Pascal Schumacher (2011)
Instrumentation: 1/picc.0.2/bcl.0 – 1.0.1.1 – timp.2perc – hp – str
Musicians: 19-45
Duration: 77 min.