How did people live without telephones, television, DVD? They listened to the radio. Now it’s hard to imagine, but they loved the radio. True, he had a completely different face. To understand this, we turn to the "Golden Fund of radio performances."
The role of the radio
When there was no TV, it was not at all boring. Each house had a radio, and loudspeakers were hung on every street. In addition to music and news, interesting programs, broadcasts of football matches, recordings of concerts and radio plays sounded on the air.
This was a new kind of theater art. Just as silent films are understandable without words, so audio performances are understandable without visual perception. In the evenings, performances were broadcast for the whole family, during the day there were children's programs.
An extensive archive of radio recordings was created in the twentieth century. He did not disappear, these valuable works are collected in collections and now anyone can listen to them. The name "Golden Fund of Radio Performances" is the painstaking work of finding the film, clearing of noise and digitization.
In the productions of past years, the voices of famous actors, stage masters are heard. The images created by them are voluminous and significant. In those days there were not so many deviations from the text and new interpretations as now. Therefore, students were encouraged to listen to performances studied under the literature program.
Project History
For several years, the cycle "Golden Fund of Radio Performances" was created. Phonograms were found and digitized. Some radio archives were shipped from far away to Moscow. Much has been done on enthusiasm. The first sound files were published in 2003. At that time, BK-MTGK studio took up the restoration of radio performances of past years. They were wanted. Then noise and crackling were removed, adjusted to the modern frequency technique, and the sound level was leveled.
The studio was engaged in new recordings. Modern actors were involved in this work, whose voices are easily recognizable. These are M. Boyarsky, Yu. Rutberg, K. Khabensky, A. Arkanov.
The Golden Fund of Radio Performances is a collection of works of various genres that unites an artistic word. The recording studio "Maistra", which is indicated by the publisher, was engaged in the digitization of Soviet radio performances of the State Radio and Television Fund and released this cycle together with the studio "Stereobook".
What is included in the collections of performances
The content of the collections is rich. One of the listeners called it "gold." Yes, the fund is golden, but not from material value, but from spiritual. Famous performances of the Taganka Theater, the Maly Theater, the Bolshoi Theater, the old Moscow Art Theater, the Moscow Soviet ...
In addition to performances, they contain artistically executed stories. You can’t confuse them with an audiobook. A one-man show requiring a director's hand is saturated with an atmosphere of sounds. It is worth closing your eyes - and the full impression that you are in the place of the events described.
The collection “Golden Fund of Radio Performances, Part 8” alone contains the stories of O. Henry and Chekhov, Babel and Arkanov, Jerome K. Jerome, performances “Evenings on a Farm” by Gogol, “Richard the Third” by Shakespeare, “Five Evenings” by Volodin . And this is a small part of it.
Actors performing radio roles
Voices of R. Plyatt and F. Ranevskaya, M. Babanova and V. Maretskaya, G. Markov and G. Taratorkin. All that they did not have time to see, that they could not forget when they saw once. They are recognizable, I immediately recall the special manner of playing your favorite actors. An image in the imagination is drawn quickly.
This is an indispensable help for students of acting departments of universities. Thanks to the project “Golden Fund of Radio Performances”, one can hear the voice of V. Vysotsky, V. Smekhov, V. Zolotukhin, A. Mironov, M. Ulyanov, S. Mishulin, E. Evstigneev, A. Papanov, O. Tabakov, M. Kozakova, V. Nevinnoy, V. Etush, V. Gaft, V. Vasilieva, T. Pelzer, A. Batalov, A. Dzhigarkhanyan, I. Kostolevsky, O. Aroseva, V. Lanovoy, V. Sperantova, V. Tikhonov, L. Armored, O. Efremov and many others.
Many are gone, but the voices remain. And they seem to be with us. This is wonderful.
Golden Fund of Radio Performances: reviews
According to the reviews left on the Internet, you can see people who are hungry for real theater, good literature, high-quality performance. They write and thank for the great work done, for the preservation of the precious archive. Evaluated by ten with a plus. Enthusiastic. They listen at work, on the road, at home. Forget about everything, listening to the masters of the word.
Many share that for a very long time they were looking for a particular work, production. Rejoice that they found, report in the comments. Someone has rediscovered Chekhov.
Many people are interested in getting to know the classics, while someone prefers exciting stories. They can also be found in the Golden Fund of Radio Performances. A. Christie, G. Wells, A. and B. Strugatsky and other science fiction writers and detective authors are brilliantly represented in the collection of productions.
Cons of audio
The specificity of digitization explains that music sometimes drowns out the text. It’s hard to make out the voice behind the music. So, because of this, A. Christie’s novel “The Nightingale Cottage” is very difficult to listen to.
Listeners criticized the actress playing the role of Miss Marple. Apparently, the image of the heroine of detectives Agatha Christie, captured in films, created on the screen, made it difficult to perceive the radio performance. Her voice is called terrible, talking with a mouth full is annoying. It is unlikely that a well-educated Englishwoman would conduct such a conversation.
Features of the radio performance
The Golden Fund of Radio Performances is not just phonograms of theatrical productions. Radio has its own specifics. Here remarks, explanations, sound effects, special diction are necessary. In a word, this is the work of a whole team of professionals on one radio show.
Basically, the stages of work on a radio show are as follows:
1. Explication - adaptation of the text for the radio. Place and time is determined by sounds, music, noise.
2. Voice recording - selection of actors with a suitable timbre. All actors involved in a radio show must have different colors of voice. After recording, edit. That is, the processing of special effects.
3. Music and noise - selected and recorded taking into account the emotional coloring of the work. It is compared by timbre, volume and mounted for certain time intervals. A specific atmosphere of noise is created, steps are superimposed, etc.
Literary taste
Thanks to listening to radio plays in children, competent speech is formed. The child is accustomed to correctly emphasize, to use phraseological units, quotes from classical works in speech. It enriches spiritually and broadens one's horizons. In addition, a good literary taste is acquired.
To date, very few specialists record audio performances. Director V.F. Trukhan, who has been working on the radio since he was young, believes that for people to understand what a great art this is, an audio theater should be given a try.
Try to listen to the production from the Golden Fund of Radio Performances, do not deny yourself this pleasure.