Franz Karg

Deutsche Grammophon’s landmark cycle of Mozart’s mature operas reaches its sixth title with The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte). Set for international release on August 2 via Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, the live recording continues the Yellow Label’s special collaboration with the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. It boasts a stellar cast, headed by the project’s initiator, Rolando Villazón, as Papageno, together with Klaus Florian Vogt as Tamino, Christiane Karg as Pamina, Regula Mühlemann as Papagena, Albina Shagimuratova as the Queen of the Night, and Franz-Josef Selig as Sarastro.

Markus Kaufmann's debut album as organist at Leipzig's Nikolaikirche tells stories of love with pieces by composers such as Edward Elgar, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Edvard Grieg. Each of the pieces describes the love and emotions of its creator in its own way: be it the "Salut d'amour", which Elgar dedicated to his piano student and later wife Caroline Alice, or Liszt's "Liebestraum" on a passionate poem by Ferdinand Freiligrath, in which love determines life and death. Markus Kaufmann skilfully brings all these facets of love to life on the Ladegast-Eule organ.

Markus Kaufmann's debut album as organist at Leipzig's Nikolaikirche tells stories of love with pieces by composers such as Edward Elgar, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Edvard Grieg. Each of the pieces describes the love and emotions of its creator in its own way: be it the "Salut d'amour", which Elgar dedicated to his piano student and later wife Caroline Alice, or Liszt's "Liebestraum" on a passionate poem by Ferdinand Freiligrath, in which love determines life and death. Markus Kaufmann skilfully brings all these facets of love to life on the Ladegast-Eule organ.

Markus Kaufmann's debut album as organist at Leipzig's Nikolaikirche tells stories of love with pieces by composers such as Edward Elgar, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Edvard Grieg. Each of the pieces describes the love and emotions of its creator in its own way: be it the "Salut d'amour", which Elgar dedicated to his piano student and later wife Caroline Alice, or Liszt's "Liebestraum" on a passionate poem by Ferdinand Freiligrath, in which love determines life and death. Markus Kaufmann skilfully brings all these facets of love to life on the Ladegast-Eule organ.

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio St. Paul, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, the mature Violin Concerto and the String Octet. The melody for the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is also his. Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions.

Deutsche Grammophon’s landmark cycle of Mozart’s mature operas reaches its sixth title with The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte). Set for international release on August 2 via Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, the live recording continues the Yellow Label’s special collaboration with the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. It boasts a stellar cast, headed by the project’s initiator, Rolando Villazón, as Papageno, together with Klaus Florian Vogt as Tamino, Christiane Karg as Pamina, Regula Mühlemann as Papagena, Albina Shagimuratova as the Queen of the Night, and Franz-Josef Selig as Sarastro.