Philharmonia Orchestra: Waterloo

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Pre-concert talk

In this very special event, the Philharmonia Orchestra presents a live screening of Waterloo, Karl Grune’s 1928 epic film, featuring the UK première of Carl Davis’s specially composed soundtrack.

Grune’s film, his ambitious response to Abel Gance’s Napoleon (1926), views the events leading up to the Battle of Waterloo from the German point of view, as General Blüchner arrives to help Wellington in the final fight against Napoleon. Spectacular crowd and battle scenes and split screen images all recreate the epic nature of the battle. Grune was one of Germany’s leading filmmakers of the 1920s and the film stars Humberstone Wright as Wellington, Charles Vanel as Napoleon and Otto Gebuhr as General Blüchner.

Carl Davis indicates his score to be a follow-up to his 1980 score for Napoleon, liberally mixing compositions of the period with sympathetically-composed music of his own.

“There was a great vogue in silent cinema for producing historical spectacles and Waterloo competes in its sheer drive and scale with the best of them”
Carl Davis, conductor and composer