Those in Europe will also have the opportunity to celebrate the holiday season with Jonas Kaufmann on tour, with performances in Mannheim, Munich, London, Düsseldorf, Hannover and Vienna.
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on Christmas Eve, on the German TV station ZDF. Performances in support of the release include Weihnachten mit Jonas Kaufmann, a TV special devoted to the tenor, featuring several guest artists, broadcast at 22:15 p.m. Pre-order the CD, or stream the first single here. The new It’s Christmas! (Extended Edition) album is due for release on October 29th as a limited 2-CD deluxe edition with comprehensive booklet, as a 2-CD set, as a limited edition, 2-LP vinyl and as a digital album. Star trumpeter Till Brönner makes cameo appearances on Let It Snow! and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Florianer Sängerknaben, all conducted by Jochen Reider, as well as harpist Florian Pedarnig and the Cologne Studio Big Band, conducted by Wieland Reissmann. The instrumentalists for the album were carefully selected based on their suitability, and include Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Bachchor Salzburg and the St. The album concludes with a selection of Kaufman’s favorite Christmas pop songs: Let It Snow!, Winter Wonderland, The Christmas Song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and White Christmas. The album features a rich selection of carols from several countries and time periods, including traditional German holiday songs ( O du fröhliche, O Tannenbaum, Still, still, still) that the young Kaufmann sang around the Christmas tree with his family every Christmas Eve, English carols ( What Child Is This?, In the Bleak Midwinter) and beloved carols popular around the world such as O Holy Night. The songs he has chosen for It’s Christmas! reflect those happy memories and the pleasure of the Christmas holidays, ranging from grateful worship to the joy of celebrating with family and friends. As a child, he landed on the front page of a Munich newspaper – at the age of eight – after describing his family’s lively, musical Christmas Eve so vividly that he won a school prize. This song was brought to Kaufmann’s attention by his friend and fellow opera singer, Ludovic Tézier.Ĭhristmas has always had a special meaning for Kaufmann. Yet another new track is the French Trois anges sont venus ce soir with a string ensemble. These six short gems are accompanied by Kaufmann’s Chiemgau colleague Stefanie Irányi in “original Stubnmusi scoring” for dulcimer, harp, violin, clarinet and double bass.