The WSK discography mess.txt
Following nene's post and Thane's remarks, I thought it would be amusing, in a rather perverse way, to try bringing some clarification regarding the contents of the post and at the same time illustrate the practices of the recording companies before the industry turned global.
In this case, it was not too hard to trace the music posted by nene even though not even the name of the conductor appears on the covers of his post.
This indication is often a big help when trying to date a recording.
I simply searched my database for the most "exotic" item (D'Tabakraucher) and I found out I had only one version of it with the WSK, on a 12" (30cm) Capitol LP purchased in 1960.
From there I searched the contents of that LP and I could match nearly every item from the post.
Only one song was missing: Fahren wir froh im Nachen, and I traced the recording on which it appears, a 10" (25cm) LP ifound in Austria in 1962.
So here's what we can determine.
In the late 1950s, the WSK recorded two LPs under the direction of Helmuth Froschauer and Xaver Meyer of "serious and Joyous" songs, if my pocket dictionary is right about the meaning of "Ernst und heiter".
I have one of the two, Ernst und heiter II.
I don't have Ernst und Heiter I, on which the songs posted by nene can be found. But they were reissued on the Capitol LP which I have scanned.
That LP also includes the Bach "Es ist vollbracht" taken from the original Ernst und Heiter II.
I hope you're not too confused and that should explain why over the years I have purchased so many recordings I already had.
Thank God for the invention of the computer :-)
To add to a comment by Thane, it's a good thing that in my latest WSK posts and thanks to a well informed friend, the unidentified soloist could finally be identified as being Peter Jelosits.
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