Schönherz & Fleer
Schönherz & Fleer are a musician and producer team, consisting of Richard Schönherz and Angelica Fleer . Your most successful production is the Schönherz & Fleer - Rilke project . Four of these CDs have been released, three of which have achieved gold status. In November 2010 the fourth CD of the Rilke project called Weltenweiter Wandrer was released. The two composers also founded the Schönherz & Fleer - Hesse project . Two CDs of this have been released.
Professional creation
In 1997 Richard Schönherz and Angelica Fleer met for the first time. The producer Richard Schönherz was enthusiastic about the instrumental album Waiting for the big rain , which Angelica Fleer had released in the same year. He invited Fleer to a meeting in Bolinas to set texts by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke to music.
In the following years Schönherz & Fleer composed music for Rilke's poems and had the texts spoken by German-speaking actors and singers, including Ben Becker , Xavier Naidoo , Hannelore Elsner and Peter Maffay . In 2001 the first CD of the Rilke project was released under the title Bis an alle Sterne by BMG Ariola Classics . The sales expectations for a musical poetry project were exceeded. By 2010, the Rilke Project's first album had sold over 150,000 copies. For this result, Schönherz & Fleer were awarded a gold record .
Then Schönherz & Fleer set 16 more poems by Rilke to music for a second CD of the Rilke project entitled In my wild heart . The CD was released in 2002 and once again achieved gold status with more than 100,000 CDs sold in Germany. The third CD of the Rilke project, entitled Overflowing Heavens , was released in 2004 and also achieved gold status. Contributing artists were u. a. Laith Al-Deen , Cosma Shiva Hagen , Hanna Schygulla , André Eisermann , Karl-Heinz Böhm , Christiane Hörbiger and Udo Lindenberg .
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 more than 30,000 spectators. A tour recording was released on DVD under the tour title Schönherz & Fleer Rilke Projekt - 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.
After three CD albums with works by Rainer Maria Rilke, Schönherz & Fleer decided in 2005 to devote themselves to the lyrical work of Hermann Hesse . In 2007 the first CD of the Schönherz & Fleer - Hesse project was released with the title Die Welt Unser Traum . It has been sold almost 80,000 times. For this production, Schönherz & Fleer had again invited actors and musicians as speakers and contributors. a. Till Brönner , Annett Louisan , Caterina Valente and Roger Willemsen . In 2008 the second CD of the Hesse project was released with the title Verliebt in die verrückte Welt . In addition to selecting the texts, Schönherz & Fleer composed and produced all of the music tracks, selected the speakers and recorded them at various locations. Around 45,000 copies of this CD have been sold.
The fourth CD of the Rilke project Weltenweiter Wandrer was released on November 5th, 2010 . 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 September 12, 2014 Sony Music Classical released the album AMO - Dress me in love with James Franco , Gert Voss , Martina Gedeck , Xavier Naidoo , Katja Flint , Max Mutzke , Peter Lohmeyer , Jana Pallaske , Ulrich Tukur , Giora Feidman and Ani Choying Drolma .
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 .
Since 2018, annual concert tours of the Rilke Project have been taking place in various line-ups with Richard Schönherz on the piano.
Discography
- Rilke Project I "To all the 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 IV "World Wide Wanderer" (Sony Music, 2010)
- Rilke project "Between Day and Dream", the official reader (Inselverlag Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-458-34878-6 )
- Hesse Project I "The World Our Dream" Music Publishing Edition Poesiemusik (Sony / ATV Music Publishing, 2007)
- Hesse Project II "In love with the crazy world" music publisher Edition Poesiemusik (Sony / ATV Music Publishing, 2009)
- DVD-Video Album "Schönherz & Fleer Rilke Project Live - Between Day and Dream" (BMG Classics, 2005)
- AMO - Dress Me in Love (Sony Music, 2014)
- Rilke project you to celebrate (Edel Content, 2015)
- Rilke Project I-IV 4 CD Box (Lübbe Audio, 2017)
- Rilke Project - Live in the Alte Oper Frankfurt
- Rilke Project V Wonderful White Nights (Lübbe Audio, 2018)
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, 1 to 3". “The interpretation of the poems by Rainer Maria Rilke - lyrical texts, staged by popular artists, in connection with the fantastic compositions by Schönherz & Fleer - managed to make the poet accessible to a new and therefore wider audience. The visionary realization of the project was convincing. ”Jobst-Ulrich Brand, Culture Department of Focus
The following CDs achieved gold status:
- Rilke Project I To all the stars
- Rilke Project II In my wild heart
- Rilke Project III Overflowing Skies
literature
- Alexandra von Braunschweig: Poetry after notes. Composer from the Revier successful with Rilke project (portrait of Angelica Fleer), in: Westfalenspiegel 2/2011, p. 67.
Individual evidence
- New ways for poetry. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. November 26, 2004.
- The measure of the individual heart. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. November 13, 2004.
- Soul journey. In: Thuringian General. November 3, 2004.
- Travel to the limits of the cosmos. In: Rhein Zeitung. November 2, 2004.
- I live my life in growing rings ... In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung. October 30, 2004.
- Rilke Projekt: The official reader: Between day and dream. Insel pocket book, ISBN 3-458-34878-6 .