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Two CD collection. ECHOES OF GERMANY is the ideal introduction to German popular music of the 1950s and early 1960s, with occasional forays into the 1930s and 1940s to offer a full array of swing, easy listening, musical theatre, schlager and Rock 'n' Roll. ECHOES OF GERMANY presents great performances by such legends as Marlene Dietrich, Lotte Lenya, Peter Alexander, Bert Kaempfert, Peter Kraus and Ted Herold, but casts it's net wide to include a handful of non-native performers who sang in German.

In Richard Heubergers Der Opernball, its Carnival time, and Paul Aubier and his wife Angele are visiting Georges and Marguerite Dumenil in Paris. During their stay, Marguerite convinces Angele to test the fidelity of their husbands, and they decide to use the Paris Opera Ball as a venue for the experiment. When the husbands fall into their trap, the evening descends into utter chaos. This little operetta was being sung everywhere in 1898. In fact, it outlasted the Silver Era of the Operetta, and continued to be widely performed until Heubergers death in 1914. Music director Marius Burkert studied conducting in his native Vienna, then performed at the Graz Opera and Hanover State Opera.

Diese grandiose 3-CD Zusammenstellung sorgt für Stimmung pur - Die deutschen Disco Charts / Schlager Superhits!

Dass es deutsche Liedermacher nach Gisbert zu Knyphausen schwer haben würden, war klar. Nur brillante Melancholiker werden ihm folgen können. Solche wie Moritz Krämer zum Beispiel. Ein wenig scheu klingt der Berliner Singer/Songwriter, fast verschämt, wenn er zu schön-trauriger Musik von den großen Gefühlen in kleinen Alltäglichkeiten singt. Nicht selten wirkt er dabei kindlich erstaunt, dass alles so ist, wie es eben ist.