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List Price: $47.49 | | Salesrank: 914499
Released: October 27, 2003 |
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Mein Herz Brennt: Based on Music of Rammstein Track Listing:
1. Mutter Orchesterlied I
2. Herzeleid Orchesterlied II
3. Seemann Orchesterlied III
4. Sehnsucht Orchesterlied IV
5. Mein Herz Brennt Orchesterlied V
6. Nebel Orchesterlied VI
7. Ich Will Orchesterlied VII
8. Alter Mann Orchesterlied VIII
9. Stimmen Aus Dem Kissen (Variationen Über Rammstein)
Mein Herz Brennt: Based on Music of Rammstein Reviews:
Only for the hardcore rammstein/symphonies fans 
2008-04-11 - Well.... It's based on rammstein right? This cd will not be for most rammstein fans. Your best bet to to listen to the CD first before you decide to buy it. Trust me on this. If you like it, good for you! If not, I do not blame you.
Try before you buy!
Grows on me with each listen 
2007-03-30 - I put off buying this CD for a very long time. Wanted an album with Pape that was more than just one or two tracks, so finally bought it. Agree with paolo that it sounds like Berg orchestrated by Mahler. It also sounds like 'early Schoenberg' (Verklarte Nacht). I am grateful it doesn't sound anything like I would expect Rammstein to sound. It took a number of listens (maybe 10) to get where I really liked it. At the moment I don't want to listen to anything else. Rene Pape does not disappoint.
Good....but not up to par...
2005-07-08 - With the trail of pre recorded tracks and ornate harmonys left behind by everyones favorite german industrial band from their use of the berlin orchestra and the spain national chior, it would seem simple to produce a classical album inspired by their works; but with the beauty of simplicity someone must always try to complicate it. The Composition of the music is georgeous, it is just too bad there was singing. The "Artist" soloists try to embilish their talents with unnessary rifts and "creative" harmonies. The Melodie is gone, completely removed from the orchestration; I assume for the purpose of allowing it for the singers, but they preceded to forget about it also. It is fairly similar to what some call hard opera. As always sample the music and come to your own conclusion, my conclusion is mearly one opinion of many.
Mind Boggling: Pape and Rasch Tackle Rammstein 
2005-01-21 - I just finished listening to Rene Pape in Torsten Rasch's Orchestral Song Cycle "Mein Herz Brennt" and have yet again experienced another one of those "wow!" moments.
I'm not certain how many classical music fans are familiar with the German rock group "Rammstein" - (I absolutely love these post-Industrial Gothic metal freaks), but Herr Rasch has taken 9 of their songs and given them an uber early 20th century German expressionistic treatment and they are mind blowingly beautiful. The best description I can think of to describe them is to say it sounds as though Berg were orchestrated by Mahler (and yes, I mean it that way around). The songs are enormous in scope and sound with a certain Mahlerian/Schoenbergian/Bergian shimmer about them that alternates begween a dark intensity and and mysterious lightness (though less of the latter).
From the first song, "Mutter" I wasn't fully prepared as Pape's absolutely gorgeous voice poured forth like liquid gold through a wide range of sound and emotions pure and gloriously free.
Rasch gives more than a nod to Wozzeck throughout the cycle - yet his individual musical language still feels highly original and, for the most part, retains the feel of Rammstein's original (the melodic lines, even when slowed way down remain, mostly intact).
By the end of the cycle all I could think of (besides what a great vehicle this new work is for this singer and hopefully for others as well) was: when will Pape take on Wozzeck? Listening to this, there's not a doubt in my mind that he could - and be amazing (as well as reach some of those notes that some Baritone Wozzecks often have difficulty with).
Some of the songs alternate between Pape's gorgeous vocalism and actress Katharina Thalbach's ("The Tin Drum") nasaly, but effective 21st century Lotte Lenya-ish stridency.
John Carewe leads the Dresdner Sinfoniker and everybody involved with this project does their finest, most intense work bringing forward a new, exciting orchestral song cycle that rightfully deserves to be programmed by the world's great orchestras. (The Dresden is billed as the only major symphony orchestra which plays contemporary music exclusively and is made up of leading players from most of the German as well as many other leading European orchestras. They sound amazing).
Listening through the entire cycle one can't help but experience some sort of catharsis.
Very highly recommended.
Definitely not what I was expecting.
2004-02-15 - This is _not_, as I first thought, an orchestral treatment of the work of german industrial rockers Rammstein. It's an operatic treatment.
Yes, Industrial Opera.
Popping in the cd and hearing "Mutter" sang by an operatic tenor was a bit jarring. I'm giving it three stars because I like opera and I like this comment, but I'm not rating it higher because it is so unlike what one would expect.
Great album if you're a fan of something a little different. If you're looking to buy this just because you like Rammstein, look someplace else.
