The award-winning world music jazz ensemble Quadro Nuevo and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester are reforming traditional German folk songs and giving them a new instrumental garb full of musical sophistication. Under the direction of Elisabeth Fuchs, the musicians release well-known songs like fresh and almost forgotten melodies like "In einem kühlen Grunde", "Kein schöner Land" or "Maikäfer flieg"with virtuoso creativeness back to life. The result is a multi-faceted instrumental album with influences from bossa nova, tango, jazz, world and film music. What seems to be a difficult coincidence, is the processing of the five "award-winning and internationally successful thoroughbred musicians" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) to a musical journey of discovery, opening up completely new perspectives on seemingly familiar songs. Who would have thought that "Am Brunnen vor dem Tore" or "See a Knab stand a Röslein" in an arrangement for saxophone, accordion, harp, contrabass, piano and orchestra could sound so invigorating? With ease and passionate enthusiasm, energy and rhythmic finesse, Quadro Nuevo proves that this refined sound mix is not only audible, but absolutely rousing.
Esteemed tenor, Jonas Kaufmann, returns with his sensational new album "WIEN". This must-have album showcases the crowd-pleasing evergreens that turned Vienna into a beloved capital of classical music. "WIEN" features a stunning collection of operetta hits and Viennese songs composed between 1870 and 1950 - Kaufmann teams up with the world renowned Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Adam Fisher. Vienna’s heyday for operetta produced stage-hits such as Johann Strauß’s ‘Komm in die Gondel’ (from Eine Nacht in Venedig / A Night in Venice) the ‘Clock Duet’ from Die Fledermaus and the ‘Title duet’ from Wiener Blut, as well as Franz Léhar’s ‘Lippen Schweigen’ from The Merry Widow. The city also inspired many timeless songs including Robert Stolz’s ‘Im Prater blühn wieder die Bäume’ and Rudolf Siecznski’s ‘Wien, Wien nur du allein’, Hans May’s ‘Heut ist der Schönste Tag’; Hermann Leopoldi’s ‘In einem kleinen Café in Hernals’ and Georg Kreisler’s ‘Der Tod muss ein Wiener sein’ - to name a few of these charming songs championed down the years by the tenor-greats such as Richard Tauber, Rudolf Schock & Fritz Wunderlich - Kaufmann has won numerous prestigious awards including Gramophone Awards and Echo Klassik Awards.
Esteemed tenor, Jonas Kaufmann, returns with his sensational new album "WIEN". This must-have album showcases the crowd-pleasing evergreens that turned Vienna into a beloved capital of classical music. "WIEN" features a stunning collection of operetta hits and Viennese songs composed between 1870 and 1950 - Kaufmann teams up with the world renowned Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Adam Fisher. Vienna’s heyday for operetta produced stage-hits such as Johann Strauß’s ‘Komm in die Gondel’ (from Eine Nacht in Venedig / A Night in Venice) the ‘Clock Duet’ from Die Fledermaus and the ‘Title duet’ from Wiener Blut, as well as Franz Léhar’s ‘Lippen Schweigen’ from The Merry Widow.