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Michael Jary's "Ich weiĂ, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh'n" (âI know there will be a miracle one dayâ) and "Davon geht die Welt nicht unter" (âThe World Won't End Because of Thisâ), Theo Mackeben's "Du hast GlĂŒck bei den Frau'n, Bel Ami!" (âYouâre lucky with the ladies, Bel Ami!â), Lothar BrĂŒhne's "Ich brech' die Herzen der stolzesten Frau'n" (âI break the hearts of the proudest womenâ), and Friedrich Schröder's "Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein" (âIâll dance to heaven with youâ) are just some of the sound film hits that are still popular today and that, if not already commissioned, were later perfidiously misused by the National Socialists for propaganda purposes. Terms such as "propaganda film" or "morale-boosting film" accompany the program presented on this album as the ugly downside of what were sometimes brilliant musical creations. The MĂŒnchner Rundfunkorchester, founded in 1952, has played individual titles from these films again and again in very different scorings and arrangements over the course of its 70-year history. This release was produced as a studio recording in October 2021, and all the sound film hits were played in their purely orchestral form - thus exposing the core of the individual compositions while allowing the necessary historical distance.