Wien Jonas Kaufmann

• Robert Stolz (1880 - 1975):
• 1 Wien wird bei Nacht erst schön 04:31
• Rudolf Sieczynski (1879 - 1952):
• 2 Wien, Du stadt meiner Träume (Wien, Wien, nur du allein) 06:08
• Hans May (1886 - 1958):
• 3 Heut ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben 02:07
• Robert Stolz:
• 4 Im Prater blühn wieder die Bäume 03:33
• Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899):
• 5 Wiener Blut, Wiener Blut (From "Wienerblut") 08:51
• 6 Ach, wie so herrlich zu schaun (From "Eine Nacht in Venedig") 03:40
• 7 Dieser Anstand, so manierlich (From "Die Fledermaus") 05:20
• 8 Draussen in Sievering blüht schon der Flieder (From "Die Tänzerin Fanny Elssler") 03:37
• 9 Sei mir gegrüsst, Du holdes Venezia (From "Eine Nacht in Venedig") 02:43
• 10 Komm in die Gondel (From "Eine Nacht in Venedig") 02:34
• Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948):
• 11 Lippen schweigen (From "Die lustige Witwe") 03:31
• Emmerich Kálmán (1882 - 1953):
• 12 Zwei Märchenaugen (From "Die Zirkusprinzessin") 05:38
• Carl Zeller (1842 - 1898):
• 13 Schenkt man sich Rosen in Tirol (From "Der Vogelhändler) 02:14
• Jaromír Weinberger (1896 - 1967):
• 14 Du wärst für mich die Frau gewesen (From "Frühlingstürme") 03:36
• Hermann Leopoldi (1888 - 1959):
• 15 In einem kleinen Café in Hernals 04:39
• Hans May:
• 16 Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben 03:10
• Ralph Benatzky (1884 - 1957):
• 17 Ich muss wieder einmal in Grinzing sein 05:24
• Peter Kreuder (1905 - 1981):
• 18 Sag beim Abschied leise "Servus" 02:46
• Georg Kreisler (1922 - 2011):
• 19 Der Tod, das muss ein Wiener sein 03:45
• Total Runtime 01:17:47

Info for Wien

Jonas Kaufmann’s new album is a deeply personal tribute to the world-famous melodies from the birthplace of waltz and operetta. Hence its title: “Wien” - the German for “Vienna”. None other than the Vienna Philharmonic is a more natural fit for such a recording of evergreen hits, with the varied programme conducted by Ádám Fischer. Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen joins on the duets, including the title melody of Wiener Blut. “Wien”, Jonas Kaufmann’s new album, will be released on October 11, 2019, after which he will take the same programme on a European tour.

Jonas Kaufmann has always had a special rapport with Austria and Vienna. His grandmother had a fondness for the light classics and was happy to sing the evergreens of Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár and Robert Stolz – a nice contrast to his grandfather’s passion for Wagner. As a child, Jonas spent much of his free time on his grandparents’ farm in Tyrol. Austrian television was almost more familiar to him than its German counterpart. In this way he absorbed the full breadth of Vienna’s entertainment scene, from Peter Alexander to Georg Kreisler. He loved to imitate Hans Moser’s Viennese twang and to slip into the role of “Herr Karl” (aka Helmut Qualtinger). Mastering Viennese dialect was child’s play.

Since then he has had a deep love for Viennese songs and operetta. “The music always put me in a good mood”, he recalls. “When I had unlikeable things to do as a student, like cleaning or vacuuming, all I had to do was play Carlos Kleiber’s Fledermaus recording, and in no time at all I had a grin on my face.”

In many ways “Wien” takes Jonas Kaufmann back to his roots. His very first professional stage production, while still a student, was A Night in Venice. That was in Regensburg back in 1993-94, when he sang Caramello more than 30 times. All the more reason to feature the tenor highlights of this Johann Strauss operetta on “Wien”, along with duets from Die Fledermaus, Wiener Blut and Lehár’s Merry Widow. As in his concertante Fledermaus performance at last year’s Dresden New Year’s Eve Gala, his superb partner in the duets is Rachel Willis-Sørensen.

In addition to Kaufmann’s première recordings of Johann Strauss favourites, the new album contains a wide selection of Viennese songs, ranging from Robert Stolz (“Im Prater blüh’n wieder die Bäume”) to Peter Kreuder (“Sag beim Abschied leise Servus”) and Hermann Leopoldi (“In einem kleinen Café in Hernals”) all the way to Georg Kreisler’s “Der Tod, das muss ein Wiener sein”. Nor can any Vienna album fail to include the city’s unofficial anthem, Rudolf Sieczyński’s “Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume”, better known all over the world as “Wien, Wien, nur du allein”.

And what orchestra is better suited to record these musical gems than the Vienna Philharmonic? This was obvious from the first note of the recording session in Vienna. When the musicians, conducted by Ádám Fischer, played the opening bars, a smile immediately spread across the face – and in the heart – of everyone present.

Jonas Kaufmann will present his new album at a concert in Vienna’s Konzerthaus on October 14, with soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen again at his side. In January 2020 he will take the programme on tour to Munich, Budapest, Stuttgart, Berlin, Nuremberg, Paris, Hamburg, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Lucerne and Baden-Baden, under the title “My Vienna”.

Jonas Kaufmann, tenor
Wiener Philharmoniker
Adam Fischer, conductor

Jonas Kaufmann
Born in Munich, Germany, tenor Jonas Kaufmann is now internationally recognized as one of the most important artists of our day. He has made sensational débuts in recent seasons at many of the world’s leading opera houses, appearing at the Royal Opera Covent Garden in La Rondine opposite Angela Gheorghiu and in the 2007 new pro-duction of Carmen under Antonio Pappano. He has also appeared as Alfredo in La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, as well as in the new productions of the work at Paris’s Opéra-Bastille in 2007 and at the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan. He has sung Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Salzburg Festival, and as Faust in La Damnation de Faust at the Theâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. Highlights of the 2007/2008 season included La Traviata opposite Anna Netrebko and his first Cavaradossi in Tosca under Antonio Pappano, both at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Rodolfo in La Bohème at both the Berlin State Opera under Gustavo Dudamel and at the Zurich Opera, where he was also heard in new productions of Humperdinck’s Koenigskinder and Carmen as well as in La Traviata and Don Carlos. In January of 2008 Jonas Kaufmann’s first solo album for DECCA titled “Romantic Arias” became an immediate international best seller. The release was followed in February of 2008 by solo operatic concerts in Munich and Hamburg. In July of 2008 he sang a tremendously acclaimed recital at the Prinzregententheater in Munich.

Jonas Kaufmann began the 2008/2009 with his first performances of Des Grieux in Manon at the Lyric Opera of Chicago opposite Natalie Dessay, followed by his return to Paris as Florestan in the new production of Fidelio for the Opéra National de Paris and a recital, both at the Palais Garnier. In January of 2009 Kaufmann sang the Italian Tenor in the production of Der Rosenkavalier under Christian Thielemann in Baden Baden. He will return to the Zurich Opera in a new production of Tosca staged by Robert Carsen and conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi. Kaufmann will also sing La Traviata in Zurich, after which he will return to the Vienna State Opera in Manon and Tosca. In July of 2009 Kaufmann will sing his first performances of the title role in Lohengrin in a new production at the Bavarian State Opera pro-duced by Richard Jones and conducted by Kent Nagano. He will also appear there in La Traviata opposite Angela Gheorghiu. The current season has included solo operatic concerts in January 2009 at the Mannheim Rosengarten, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, at the Megaron in Athens, Greece, and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in March. Kaufmann made his début in Moscow in December of 2008 in a concert along with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and also sang Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Munich Philharmonic conducted by Christian Thielemann. He dedicates part of each year to song recitals and this season is partnered by renowned pianist, Helmut Deutsch, in recitals in Paris, at the Palais Garnier, the Opera House in Zurich, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Glyptoteket in Copenhagen, The Nationaltheater in Munich, and at the Haus fur Mozart at the Salzburg Festival.

Jonas Kaufmann completed his musical studies in his native Munich, participated in masterclasses with James King, Hans Hotter and Joseph Metternich and subsequently perfected his vocal technique with Michael Rhodes. He began his professional career at the State Theatre in Saarbruecken in 1994 and was soon invited to make débuts in such important German theaters as the Stuttgart Opera, the Hamburg State Opera as well as international débuts at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Paris Opéra and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

He made his Salzburg Festival début in 1999 in a new production of Busoni’s Dr. Faust and returned there in 2003 as Belmonte and for concerts of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic. Kaufmann has been closely associated with the Zurich Opera since 2001; he has appeared there in several new productions which have included Idomeneo, La Clemenza di Tito, Schubert’s Fierrabras, Humperdinck’s Koenigskinder, izet’s Carmen and Monteverdi’s L’Incorozione di Poppea. Other roles in Zurich have included the Duke in Rigoletto, the title role in Gounod’s Faust, Florestan in Fidelio, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Belmonte in Die ntführung aus dem Serail. In 2006 he sang his first performances of the title role of Wagner’s Parsifal in Zurich followed by his début in 2007 there as Don Carlos. In 2006 Kaufmann also sang his first Walther von Stolzing in a concert performance of Die Meistersinger at the Edinburgh Festival conducted by David Robertson. He had previously been heard in Edinburgh as Max in Der Freischütz under Sir Charles Mackerras.

Jonas Kaufmann has appeared with some of the world’s leading conductors and orchestras. Among these engagements are performances with the Berlin Philharmonic under both Sir Simon Rattle and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst and the Vienna Philharmonic under Helmuth Rilling. In the summer of 2007 he sang Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 in Lucerne under Claudio Abaddo and subsequently made his Carnegie Hall début in October of 2007 in the same work.. In 2008 he also performed with the Cleveland Orchestra in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with Franz Welser-Möst, in Verdi’s Requiem in Zurich under Daniele Gatti. His recitals of the song Literature have received high praise throughout Europe as well as in Japan.

In the autumn of 2009 Jonas Kaufmann will return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in Don Carlos under Semyon Bychkov. He will open the 2009 season at the Teatro alla Scala in a new production of Carmen under Daniel Barenboim and will also sing the Verdi Requiem with La Scala in Milan, Paris and Moscow. Kaufmann will sing the new production of Tosca at the Bavarian State Opera where he also sings Lohengrin and Carmen. He will add the title role in Massenet’s Werther to his repertoire for the Opéra National in Paris and returns to the Metropolitan Opera in Tosca and Carmen. In July of 2010, Kaufmann will make his Bayreuth Festival début in a new production of Lohengrin.

Booklet for Wien