Rilke project
The Rilke Project is a music project by the composer and producer team Schönherz & Fleer , which sets works by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke to music. In four CD releases so far, German-speaking actors and musicians have interpreted poems by the poet Rilke. The first three CDs of the Rilke project achieved gold status. The best-known contributors to the Rilke project include Ben Becker , Klaus Meine , Hannah Herzsprung , Mario Adorf , Iris Berben , Karlheinz Böhm , Hannelore Elsner , Nina Hagen and Xavier Naidoo . On November 5, 2010 the fourth part of the Rilke project Weltenweiter Wanderer was published . On October 14, 2011, the album Best of Rilke Projekt was released by Sony Music Classical . On November 27th, 2015 Edel Content released the album Symphonic Rilke Projekt - Dir zur Celebration . The double CD Rilke Projekt - Live was released on September 29, 2017 at the Alte Oper Frankfurt . On September 28, 2018, the 5th album of the Rilke project Wunderweße Nights was released .
History of origin
In 2001 the first CD of the Rilke project with the album title Bis an alle Sterne was released by BMG Ariola Classics. By 2010, the Rilke Project's first album had sold over 150,000 copies. For example, the famous Rilke poem Der Panther by Otto Sander was recorded for the first CD of the project . Nina Hagen , Ben Becker and Mario Adorf also spoke poems for the first CD of the Rilke project .
Then the composers Schönherz & Fleer set 16 more poems by Rilke to music for a second CD of the Rilke project with the album title In my wild heart . The CD was released in 2002 and was also a success. The publication again achieved gold status with more than 100,000 CDs sold in Germany. The third CD of the Rilke project with the album title Überfließende Himmel was released in 2004 and also achieved gold status.
In autumn 2004 the Rilke project toured with a large production through 24 German cities under the title Between Day and Dream . The multimedia stage version of the Rilke project with the actors Jürgen Prochnow , Nina Hoger , Robert Stadlober and the singer Zabine saw a total of more than 30,000 spectators. A tour recording was released on DVD under the tour title of the same name Schönherz & Fleer Rilke Project - Live - Between Day and Dream at BMG Classics (today Sony Music) in the same year.
In 2005 Schönherz & Fleer published a book about their Rilke project with Insel-Verlag . In addition to information about the tour, the actors and musicians involved and a biographical essay about Rainer Maria Rilke, the book also contained diary notes about the concert tour.
The fourth CD of the Rilke project Weltenweiter Wandrer was released on November 5th, 2010 . Klaus Meine , Ben Becker , Clueso , Hannelore Elsner , Tim Fischer , Katja Flint , Sol Gabetta , Hannah Herzsprung , Patricia Kaas , Salif Keïta , David Kross , Hardy Krüger and Peter Maffay contributed to this CD .
On October 14, 2011, the album Best of Rilke Projekt was released by Sony Music Classical .
On November 27, 2015 Edel Content released the album Symphonic Rilke Projekt - Dir to the celebration with pieces from the previous Rilke Projekt albums arranged for symphonic orchestra. The participating artists are Ben Becker , Hannelore Elsner , Nina Hoger , Max Mutzke and Robert Stadlober . Christian Kolonovits conducts the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt . Yvonne Catterfeld and Xavier Naidoo will sing the bonus track Omen and Orakel .
On September 29, 2017, the double CD Rilke Projekt - Live in the Alte Oper Frankfurt was released , a recording of the gala concert on December 4, 2015 for Rilke's 140th birthday with Ben Becker , Hannelore Elsner , Nina Hoger and Robert Stadlober and Special Guests Peter Maffay , Max Mutzke and Enrique Ugarte . Christian Kolonovits conducted the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt , Gerhard Kampf moderated.
On September 28, 2018, the 5th album of the Rilke project Wunderweisse Nights was released by Lübbe Audio. The poems and texts on the subject of winter are interpreted on this album by Julia Koschitz , Matthias Koeberlin , Klaus Hoffmann , Nicholas Müller and Cäthe .
Annual concert tours of the Rilke Project with different line-ups have been taking place since 2018.
2018 with Nina Hoger , Sebastian Urzendowsky and Edo Zanki ,
2019 with Nina Hoger , Ralf Bauer and Edo Zanki ,
2020 with Nina Hoger , Ralf Bauer and Jonathan Kluth.
The Rilke Projekt Band and Richard Schönherz on the piano are always there.
Discography
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- Rilke Project I To All Stars (BMG Ariola Classics, 2001)
- Rilke Project II In my wild heart (BMG Classics / Random House Audio, 2002)
- Rilke Project III Overflowing Skies (BMG Classics / Random House Audio, 2004)
- Rilke Project Between Day and Dream , the official reader (Inselverlag Frankfurt am Main and * Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-458-34878-6 )
- DVD-Video Album Schönherz & Fleer Rilke Projekt Live - Between Day and Dream (BMG Classics, 2005)
- Rilke Project IV World Wide Wanderer (Sony Music, 2010)
- Best of Rilke Project (Sony Music, 2011)
- Symphonic Rilke Projekt Dir zur Celebration CD and DVD (Edel Content, 2015)
- Rilke Project I-IV 4 CD Box (Lübbe Audio, 2017)
- Rilke Project - Live in the Alte Oper Frankfurt 2 CDs (Lübbe Audio, 2017)
- Rilke Project V Wonderful White Nights (Lübbe Audio, 2018)
Track lists of the CDs
- March 2001: Up to all the stars
| The world that is moons | Nina Hagen |
| Rise and fall | Mario Adorf |
| I love to hear things sing | Xavier Naidoo |
| You don't have to understand life | Hannelore Elsner |
| Love song | Rudolph Moshammer |
| People at night | Peter Maffay |
| The death of the beloved | Christiane Paul |
| The Panther | Otto Sander |
| farewell | Christa Fast |
| Song (you only, you) | Ben Becker , Xavier Naidoo |
| To say to sleep | Friedrich von Thun |
| The lover | Hannelore Elsner |
| give me Love | Ben Becker |
| Like the star | Nina Hagen |
| For Hans Carossa | Friedrich von Thun |
| The world arises with you | Otto Sander |
| I live my life | Mario Adorf , Montserrat Caballé |
- October 2002: In my wild heart
| Love | Cosma Shiva Hagen |
| childhood | Christiane Hörbiger |
| In my wild heart | Laith Al-Deen |
| Days when they seem to slip away from us | Iris Berben |
| Angel songs | Hanna Schygulla |
| lonliness | Udo Lindenberg , Till Brönner |
| That is the longing | Christiane Hörbiger |
| The silence | André Eisermann |
| Serious hour | Karlheinz Bohm |
| It's always the world | Hanna Schygulla |
| The loving ones | Veronica Ferres |
| Where does my life go? | Klaus Meine , Zabine feat. Senait |
| Everything is one | Iris Berben |
| It started as a meal | André Eisermann |
| So let's say goodbye | Veronica Ferres , Till Brönner |
| Anticipation | Karlheinz Bohm , Stephanie de Kowa |
- March 2004: Overflowing skies
| Please refer | Jürgen Prochnow , Vesselina Kasarova |
| Oh, if only there were stars | Katja Riemann |
| The carousel | Heino Ferch |
| Is it possible | Wolfgang Niedecken , Xavier Naidoo |
| Be quiet from listening and being amazed | Barbara Sukowa |
| Autumn day | Gottfried John |
| Rose night | Hannelore Elsner |
| I want to be you | Ben Becker |
| My life is like a quiet sea | Jürgen Prochnow |
| Nights in the vicinity | Barbara Sukowa |
| Lullaby | Heino Ferch |
| You gentlest law | Xavier Naidoo |
| Nature is happy | Jessica Black |
| farewell | Ben Becker |
| Between day and dream | Sir Peter Ustinov |
| Overflowing skies | Hannelore Elsner , Vesselina Kasarova |
| If only it were so very quiet for once | Gottfried John |
- November 2010: World-wide wanderer
| entrance | Tim Fischer |
| Dream crowned XV | Katja Flint |
| The hour is drawing to a close | Hannelore Elsner |
| The stranger | Hardy Kruger |
| Because I think | Hannah Herzsprung |
| I am learning to see | David Kross |
| Vergers / orchards | Patricia Kaas |
| Dwindling | Ben Becker |
| Eve | Hannah Herzsprung |
| World-wide wanderer | Peter Maffay , Salif Keïta |
| dreams | Katja Flint |
| Sometimes | David Kross |
| Make me the guardian of your vastness | Clueso |
| Gifts | Patricia Kaas |
| We smile softly | Katja Flint , Sol Gabetta |
| The child | David Kross |
| You know what | Hannah Herzsprung |
| The first elegy (excerpt) | Ben Becker |
| We, in the struggling nights | Tim Fischer |
- November 2015: to celebrate with you
| To you in celebration | overture |
| The Panther | Ben Becker |
| Omens and oracles | Xavier Naidoo / Yvonne Catterfeld |
| Rose night | Hannelore Elsner |
| People at night | Robert Stadlober |
| Angel songs | Nina Hoger |
| Autumn day | Ben Becker |
| Crowned dream | Nina Hoger |
| Is it possible | Robert Stadlober / Max Mutzke |
| The world that is moons | Hannelore Elsner |
| You gentlest law | Xavier Naidoo |
| I live my life | Ben Becker |
| Everything is one | Ben Becker / Hannelore Elsner / Robert Stadlober / Nina Hoger |
- September 2018: Wonderful white nights
| Love i'm drunk | Matthias Koeberlin |
| It's still day on the terrace | Julia Koschitz |
| It's autumn now | Matthias Koeberlin |
| Stars, sleepers and ghosts | Cäthe |
| legal action | Julia Koschitz |
| You, neighbor God | Matthias Koeberlin |
| Finally a big storm | Julia Koschitz |
| Beautiful silent starry night | Matthias Koeberlin |
| This is how the world sings | Nicholas Müller |
| At the corner | Matthias Koeberlin |
| snow | Matthias Koeberlin |
| Advent | Julia Koschitz |
| Quiet hour | Matthias Koeberlin / Julia Koschitz / |
| Happy Christmas Day | Matthias Koeberlin |
| Christmas is the quietest day | Julia Koschitz |
| Christmas | Klaus Hoffmann |
| The evening comes from far gone | Julia Koschitz |
| Be farewell first | Matthias Koeberlin |
| epilogue | Instrumental |
Awards
In autumn 2004 Richard Schönherz and Angelica Fleer were awarded the International Book Prize Corine by the news magazine Focus in the audio book category for their Rilke project, I to III .
The following publications achieved gold status :
- 2011: Rilke Project II - In my wild heart
Press reviews
The unusual project was positively received by the press. The FAZ described the impression left by the project as follows: “It is seriousness and respect in dealing with words and music that characterize this production: it extends far beyond the quick fluency of the pop business.” The reviews repeatedly emphasize that the Rilke project manages to give Rainer Maria Rilke's poems a modern look. In the Nürnberger Nachrichten it was said: “Amazingly, the tightrope act succeeds in interpreting Rilke in a contemporary way without revealing the content of his poems. The original sound collages leave enough room for language. An audio book that makes young people especially hungry for Rilke. "
See also
Web links
- Official website of the Rilke project
- Official website of the composers Schönherz & Fleer
- Official website of the Hesse project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart sources: DE
- ↑ GOLD / PLATINUM database. musikindustrie.de, accessed on May 5, 2020 .