The play comes back!

The play comes back!

I would not claim that the varied productions of recent years have gone on their way to 'Hörfilm' astray. Still, I asked myself over time, if it no return from the Hörwelt brutal music, Hollywood Sound FX and one-knows-it-from-each-blockbuster speakers.
Some minor radio plays did brave attempts to revive the radio play-feeling of the 80s again, but there again, the longtime fan asks if it really needs to be that you can also packed moth old materials in the familiar style.
On one hand, so high-tech ears of popcorn with pseudo-draft - on the other hand Grosch books in classic garb.
But there is obviously still way beyond Gabriel Burns and DREAMLAND ...!

'Hey, that's James Stewart ...!'

This thought came to me the same at the first word of Preston Aberdeen through my mind, and he would not let me go.
The radio play was me once in crystal gray Film Noir monochrome and then again in enchanting Technicolor through those parts of perception that are not quite listening and not quite see.
The production gives off a flawless elegance that makes me smile appreciatively 'even after the end of the story.
From the period atmosphere of exquisite music (only promises the Cover story a little too much Edgar Wallace) on the really meticulous sound paintings nuance rather than mere effects to cover up, to the voices that - as already indicated - rather the magic classic cinemas spread than the to securitize monotony of modern film dubbing. Here beautiful elements combine to create something even more beautiful whole.

Despite the elegance Preston Aberdeen is by no means minimalist or spartan.
In fact, an almost indulgent flair that normally found in most old radio productions revealed - 'where again mostly the lightness is lost, some of invigorating, partly sparkling carries over here on the handset.
I have a radio play heroes connected me really rare so friendly felt like the troubled courier who embodied so wonderfully by James Stewart. (Let my illusion!)

The length of the radio play is the 'full-length' impression justice, and where many productions of recent times struggling to fluff action sketches on CD-length, one has here always feel that would be to tell a lot more.
This is perhaps the greatest quality of courier Preston:
Here is a thrilling story is knitted, the skillfully moves between agent thriller, screwball comedy and adventure literature and there are real characters presented, whose actions and well one really care about.

Here all elements of storytelling combine to form a whole, rather than '- as too often - to serve as support to a single purpose.

One can make conservative or even younger listeners not blame if affected you as a new production or even strange. This radio play is not for the 'way' or for those who every day by listening to the noise their collectors newcomers to get them evaluated and archived quickly.

I very much hope that this 'return to the radio play' as such is recognized and the joy will prevail in this new hero with the usual cynicism and comparison forced the sick were Hörspielforen- and Gernre critics.

The curse of our age is that trials of innovation and care are clubbed repeatedly by schema and mass productions.
It has become too easy, with 'effects' to paste to suggest professionalism. Pseudo-drama, pseudo theatricality, pseudo-pathos and pseudo-passion are the ingredients fast food culture.
Can the taste of real delicacies still learning to appreciate a palate accustomed to it ...?

For the film, I have for the time being given up hope.
Radio plays like this give me hope, is that the Spirit of Music and Dramatic diversity is maintained in other media 'perhaps reawakened ...

With Part 2 so please continue on this path, Mr. Aberdeen!