Documentary by Marc Boettcher
DVD – Video (2) + Audio CD
# 982 430 4 – Polydor
Stereo-Type: DVD 9, Dolby Digital
Languages: German, English
Duration: ca. 120 Min.
Release Date: November 01, 2004
The biography of the man whose ideas occupy a firm place in the annals of music history began more than eighty years ago in a working-class district of Hamburg.
CD & Booklet
# 982 546-5 – Polydor
Released: November 29, 2004
Polydor presents a CD with 22 songs from Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra including a booklet. Inside this 28-page portrait, author and journalist Bernd Matheja documents the history of Bert Kaempfert, his musical influences and his personal achievements. Included are many photos, some of which are taken from the Kaempfert family archives.
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DVD – Video (5)
# 982 092 9 – Polydor
Stereo Upmix 5.1 Surround
Released: June 21, 2004
In November 1979 Bert Kaempfert and his 40-strong orchestra went on tour and featuring soloists Ack van Rooyen on trumpet, Jiggs Whigham on trombone and Swedish jazz singer Sylvia Vrethammar. This tour had been preceded by a concert given on 20 June in Neu-Isenburg’s Hugenottenhalle, which Hessen Radio happened to record for television, thus making it possible, ten years later, to transfer this now historic recording on to video disc. Requiring complex digital audio-master processing, the task was carried out in London’s Mayfair Studios by John Hudson, one of the world’s leading sound engineers. In April 1991 the video disc was replaced by a video cassette.
We are very pleased that “the concert event of the year”, as it was described in the press at that time, is now available on DVD.
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On the occasion of Bert Kaempfert’s 80th birthday, friends and former companions honoured the memory of the late international music star.
At an exclusive gala held on Thursday, 16 October 2003, former musical companions, friends and relatives honoured the memory of the composer Bert Kaempfert. “Fips”, as he was wont to be called by his friends, would have been eighty on this day, in remembrance of which, Kaempfert’s daughter Doris had invited everyone to the Stage Club at Hamburg’s Neue Flora music theatre.
On October 16, 2003, Bert Kaempfert’s 80th birthday, the Polydor Island Group was awarded the Golden Gramophone to the composer posthumously in recognition of his life’s work.
19.10.2003, ZDF 3.00 p.m. – Sylvia Vrethammar sings a musical number from the legendary London concert in 1979 on the program “ZDF-Wunschkonzert”, and she talks about working with Bert Kaempfert.
27.10.2003, NDR 10.30 p.m. – The program “Kulturjournal” reports about the 80th birthday of Bert Kaempfert at 10.30 p.m. on Monday, October 27, 2003.
22.11.2003, NDR 10.00 p.m. – “Strangers In The Night – Die Bert Kaempfert Story” will be shown on NDR television at 22.00 on Saturday, November 22, 2003.
The documentary film about the world famous orchestra leader Bert Kaempfert was premiered on the occasion of the 45th Nordic Film Festival in Lubeck on October 30 at 4.00 p.m.
The film had also been shown on NDR television on Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 10.00 p.m.
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