Wien - Vinyl Edition - Sony: 19075950401 - 2 Vinyl Records

He embraces the style, the timbre, the allure, even the specific accent of this repertoire with complete conviction and self-evident delight. The great thing about these performances is that... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

Release Date: 22nd Nov 2019
Catalogue No: 19075950401
Label: Sony

Presto Recording of the Week

11th October 2019
Opus Klassik Awards

2020

Nominee - Male Singer of the Year

Stolz, R: Wien wird bei Nacht erst schön

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Siecynski: Wien, du Stadt meiner Traüm

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

May, H: Heut ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Stolz, R: Im Prater bluh'n wieder die Baume, Op. 247

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Strauss, J, II: Wiener Blut (from Wiener Blut)

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Strauss, J, II: Eine Nacht in Venedig: Ach, wie so herrlich zu schau'n

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Strauss, J, II: Dieser Anstand, so manierlich (from Die Fledermaus)

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Strauss, J, II: Draußen im Sievering blüht schon der flieder (from Die Tänzerin Fanny Elssler)

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Strauss, J, II: Eine Nacht in Venedig: Sei mir gegrusst, du holdes Venezia!

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Strauss, J, II: Eine Nacht in Venedig: Komm in die Gondel

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe: Lippen schweigen

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Kalman: Zwei Märchenaugen (from Die Zirkusprinzessin)

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Zeller: Schenkt man sich Rosen in Tirol (from Der Vogelhändler)

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Weinberger, J: Du wärst für mich die Frau gewesen

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Leopoldi: In einem kleinen Café in Hernals

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

May, H: Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Benatzky: Ich muss wieder einmal in Grinzing sein

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Kreuder: Sag zum Abschied leise Servus

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

Kreisler, G: Der Tod muss ein Wiener sein

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Ádám Fischer

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Recording of the Week, Jonas Kaufmann in Vienna

11th October 2019

The German tenor sings the praises of the Austrian capital in a sumptuously-performed collection of operetta favourites and popular songs with a sting in its tail.

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.

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December 2019

He embraces the style, the timbre, the allure, even the specific accent of this repertoire with complete conviction and self-evident delight. The great thing about these performances is that they sound ‘lived in’...There is so much to savour here – but above all it’s the stylistic understanding (and in this experience and hindsight are invaluable) that carries all before it. There is a oneness, too, with his collaborators.

December 2019

In general, Kaufmann—as always— impresses with his sweet and gentle tone, the high technical finish of his singing, and his charm, but here his sense of style often feels applied rather than natural, though it’s invariably intelligently done...There are lavish accompaniments from Ádám Fischer and the Viennese orchestra.

11th October 2019

The gloss and glamour of the Viennese musicians’ sound really is one of the glories of this new disc, and Ádám Fischer steers them with understated panache and imagination throughout. The Hungarian conductor has such a way with rubato that even long strophic songs feel like real unfolding narratives rather than just a perfunctory whirl around a gilded ballroom. Kaufmann’s subtle word-painting helps, and he keeps most of his operatic fire-power on ice for the Léhar and Strauss evergreens.

20th October 2019

His singing of Sieczynski’s Vienna, City of My Dreams lacks the easy charm of Wunderlich, but he achieves with musicianship and artistry what came naturally to his golden-voiced predecessor...And he finds a Schubertian love of nature in the hymns to Vienna’s leafy suburbs by Leopoldi, Benatzky and May. Fischer and the Vienna Phil are deluxe accompanists.

11th October 2019

There is enough cream and sugar in his selection of golden and silver-age serenades by Johann Strauss II and Franz Lehár to satisfy the sweetest tooth. Yet in songs such as Georg Kreisler’s satirical Der Tod, das muss ein Wiener sein, sung in a fair approximation of cabaret style by Kaufmann to Michael Rot’s wry piano accompaniment and pointedly placed as an epilogue, there’s a sharpness that interrogates wilful amnesia...The orchestral sound glistens like Cellophane.

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