Blood-curdling movie night with live music!

Nosferatu is one of the first films to define the vampire genre. To get around copyright laws, the elegant Dracula was transformed into the monstrous Count Orlok, and plot and setting were altered. However, Stoker's widow was not to be swayed and had the film seized, except for one copy.... Guaranteed a blood-curdling movie night with live music!

A Symphony of Horror

What do we experience just before the fingers of the hand close around the innocent neck of a young woman? Fear is invisible and is brought to life by our imagination. Music is the catalyst par excellence in driving emotions. Not for nothing has the combination of silent film with live music become cult in recent years.

Movie Score

As such, it promises to be a very special evening. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror is the mother of horror cinema. Bernd Wilden, the composer of the updated film score, is a specialist in writing film music for historical classics. Nor is it business as usual for the conductor and orchestra. In film music, the conductor cannot afford rhythmic liberties, as often happens in symphonies. The music must run precisely sync with the scene on the screen. 

What does fear sound like?

When the young protagonist opens a coffin in Count Orlok's palace, you hear the brass scream in terror. You hear the timpani thunder. The double basses constantly stir up the tension. With his symphony, Bernd Wilden has succeeded in evoking a constantly threatening atmosphere. Against this he contrasts such everyday sounds as the chirping of birds, the ringing of bells and the folk music in the Transylvanian inn.