Kayser Thron

Following in the footsteps of UK jazz heavyweights, Nubya Garcia, Ashley Henry & Kaidi Tatham, London-based, Berklee-trained drummer/composer and Jazz FM's Breakthrough Act of 2021, Jas Kayser unveils her much anticipated debut album in 2022 for Jazz re:freshed's iconic 5ive series.

Following in the footsteps of UK jazz heavyweights, Nubya Garcia, Ashley Henry & Kaidi Tatham, London-based, Berklee-trained drummer/composer and Jazz FM's Breakthrough Act of 2021, Jas Kayser unveils her much anticipated debut album in 2022 for Jazz re:freshed's iconic 5ive series.

This new release from DUX presents world premiere recordings of pieces of Polish sacred music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Goethe as an opera librettist: in November 2019, an opera sensation was to be experienced at the Leverkusener Erholungshaus: 232 years after its creation, a comic opera was premiered with "Scherz, List und Rache", to which none other than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had written the Libretto. The music was composed by Goethe's childhood friend Philipp Christoph Kayser (1755-1823).

Isfrid Kayser (1712–1771) spent almost his entire life in the Premonstratensian Abbey Marchtal, where he soon gained a reputation as an especially versatile musician. Numerous spiritual organizations commissioned church music or sacred music dramas. As a play of words on his surname (Kaiser = emperor), his confreres soon called him the “Caesar of Music.” His Magnificat and the Missa VI are presented here in a recording together with several smaller works; they document Kayser’s extraordinary accomplishments. These majestically sacred works is interpreted by the Orpheus Vokalensemble and Ars Antiqua Austria under the direction of Jürgen Essl.

»Im Licht der Liebe spiegelt sich die Welt«, verkündet Mara Kayser auf ihrer neuen CD, auf der die erfolgreiche Schlagersängerin die ganze Bandbreite der modernen Pop-Musik nutzt und wieder eine imposante Weiterentwicklung demonstriert. Das belegt schon der Titelsong »Alles atmet Liebe«, der mit Synthi-Sounds überrascht und eine wunderbare Botschaft übermittelt, für die Wolfgang G. Herrmann sphärische Klänge kreiert hat. Die Melodien von Wolfgang G.