Mathias Wieman's little discotheque
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| Studio album by Mathias Wieman | ||||
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| Label (s) | Ariola-Athena | |||
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17 cm LP |
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5 |
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approx. 15 min |
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| occupation | Mathias Wieman (speaker), Helmut Walcha (organ), Christoph Eschenbach (harpsichord) and others | |||
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Mathias Wieman small discotheque is a literary speech plate series , the 1961 / 62 by the record company Ariola Athena was issued. The actor Mathias Wieman speaks German poetry by both classical authors and contemporary authors on a total of five 17 cm long-playing records . Each record is dedicated to a specific topic.
prehistory
During the Second World War , Mathias Wieman spoke German poetry on the radio in the Sunday radio show “Our Treasure Chest”, which gave him the reputation of being a master of the spoken word. At a time when the Germans were particularly dependent on edification through the power of poetry, the audience response was so tremendous that the successful theater and film actor Wieman from then on increasingly devoted himself to the spoken word. Other radio broadcasts, recitation evenings and records with recitations from Wiemans followed.
The little discotheque
Authors and topics
The series opened with sacred poems by Paul Gerhardt , followed by a record of poems and prose "for children and connoisseurs" by Josef Guggenmos , Wilhelm Hey , the Brothers Grimm and Clemens Brentano , followed by poems by August Graf von Platen and Friedrich Rückert . The fourth record includes evening songs by various authors, including Andreas Gryphius and Rainer Maria Rilke . The series closes with ten love songs by unknown poets.
music
Each of the five speech plates from the Mathias Wiemans Little Discotheque series has been lovingly provided with background music that matches the text. So is z. E.g. on the record with poems by Paul Gerhardt, which are, as it were, song texts of sacred songs, the musical accompaniment instrument the organ (the well-known organist Helmut Walcha plays ), while Walter Gerwig improvises soft lute sounds to accompany the evening songs . On the record for children and connoisseurs, the then still unknown young pianist Christoph Eschenbach played the harpsichord and the important music professor Ferdinand Conrad played the recorder, which is probably considered to be the most childish instrument. Music can be heard between two texts, sometimes accompanying the spoken word.
Overall artistic direction
The overall artistic direction of the project of the small discotheque was Gertrud Loos , who started as an assistant for the early recordings of the literature production of Deutsche Grammophon , in cooperation with the speaker Mathias Wieman. The collaboration between Loos and Wieman continued in many ways, including at Deutsche Grammophon . Gertrud Loos also published unpublished material posthumously during Wieman's lifetime.
Small discography
Mathias Wieman's little discotheque was composed as follows:
- I am a guest on earth - Mathias Wieman speaks poems by Paul Gerhardt (Mathias Wieman's small discotheque, part 1)
- For children and connoisseurs - Mathias Wieman speaks poems and prose by Josef Guggenmos, Wilhelm Hey, Brothers Grimm and Clemens Brentano (Mathias Wieman's small discotheque, part 2)
- The stream that noisy next to me - Mathias Wieman speaks poems by August Graf von Platen and Friedrich Rückert (Mathias Wieman's little discotheque, part 3)
- In the evening when I go to sleep - Mathias Wieman speaks poems by Gryphius, Rilke, Mörike, Goethe, Brentano, vd Vring, Weinträger and Nietzsche (Mathias Wiemans little discotheque, part 4)
- Poet unknown - Mathias Wieman speaks ten love songs by unknown poets (Mathias Wieman's small discotheque, episode 5)
CDs in stores
Mathias Wieman's small discotheque is now available in an expanded form on five CDs in a box from Deutsche Grammophon, whose title For Kenner & Kinder is a modification of the title of the second episode of the small discotheque :
- For connoisseurs & children. Mathias Wieman reads poems - prose - fairy tales. ISBN 3-82911-256-4 .