Munich Radio Orchestra and Ernst Theiss – Der wilde Sound der 20er: 1929 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Munich Radio Orchestra and Ernst Theiss – Der wilde Sound der 20er: 1929 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:15 minutes | 874 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik

When the Berliner “Funk-Stunde” (“Radio Hour”) went out on the air on October 29, 1923, heralding the start of German radio, the first piece of music to be broadcast live was Fritz Kreisler’s Andantino in the Style of Martini. The fact that the era of the new mass medium began with an imitation of an old musical style is not without a certain irony – and reveals how little attention had been paid to the problem of music on the radio. It was indeed to be a further five years before the radio stations commissioned the first compositions for the medium. Here, under the heading of “generic radio music”, the following genres were defined: “radio suite, musical radio play, radio cantata, radio opera and symphonic light music”. Modern composers such as Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch and Kurt Weill were all commissioned, along with light entertainment composers such as Edmund Nick, Mischa Spoliansky and Eduard Künneke.

The age of radio begins in Berlin at the beginning of the 1920s, while people suffer from political crises, inflation as well as the consequences of the Spanish flu. In music we experience a mirror of the times. New media and old traditions, revolution and perseverance, jazz and art music are juxtaposed. One hundred years later, we realize how much this time has to do with us, how formative the sound of the century was and is, and how many points of contact there are in the present. Welcome to Vision and Retrospection!

Tracklist:
01. Munich Radio Orchestra – Tänzerische Suite, Op. 26: I. Overture. Tempo des Foxtrot (06:50)
02. Munich Radio Orchestra – Tänzerische Suite, Op. 26: II. Blues. Andante (05:15)
03. Ernst Theis – Tänzerische Suite, Op. 26: III. Intermezzo. Vivace (04:01)
04. Munich Radio Orchestra – Tänzerische Suite, Op. 26: IV. Valse Boston. Valse mélancolique (05:47)
05. Munich Radio Orchestra – Tänzerische Suite, Op. 26: V. Finale. Foxtrot (06:48)
06. Clemens Nicol – Tempo der Zeit, Op. 16: Meine Damen und Herren! (Live) (00:25)
07. Munich Radio Orchestra – Tempo der Zeit, Op. 16: Hallo! (1) (Live) (01:27)
08. Clemens Nicol – Tempo der Zeit, Op. 16: Sie hören jetzt den Gesang an den Fortschritt der Technik (Live) (00:14)
09. Munich Radio Orchestra – Tempo der Zeit, Op. 16: Wenn die stampfenden Maschinen (Live) (02:23)
10. Clemens Nicol – Tempo der Zeit, Op. 16: Das ist alles sehr schön (Live) (00:25)
11. Munich Radio Orchestra – Tempo der Zeit, Op. 16: Und wenn die Luftschiffe – Ah! Liebe Kameraden! (Live) (02:37)
12. Munich Radio Orchestra – Tempo der Zeit, Op. 16: Interlude (Live) (01:15)
13. Munich Radio Orchestra – Tempo der Zeit, Op. 16: Ja, das Tempo der Zeit kostet Geld (Live) (08:06)
14. Clemens Nicol – Tempo der Zeit, Op. 16: Sie alle sind Mithelfer am Tempo der Zeit (Live) (00:28)
15. Munich Radio Orchestra – Tempo der Zeit, Op. 16: Hallo! (2) (Live) (01:08)

Download: