It's Christmas (2020)
performed by
Cologne Big Band, Florian Pedarnig (harp), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Till Brönner (trumpet), Till Brönner (flugelhorn), Bachchor Salzburg (choir, chorus), St. Florianer Sängerknaben (choir, chorus), Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
composed by
Adolphe Adam, B. Widemann, Carl Gottlieb Hering, Christmas Traditional, Emmy Köchler, Felix Bernard, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Gruber, Friedrich Silcher, Gustav Holst, Irving Berlin, James Pierpont, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Francis Wade, Jule Styne
With It's Christmas!, tenor Jonas Kaufmann delivers something for almost everyone, except perhaps fans of traditional classical holiday repertory: there are standard carols in German and English, traditional German tunes including dialect pieces in which Kaufmann seems quite comfortable, a French carol that calls forth a hitherto unknown voice from the tenor, and, probably controversially, a concluding sequence of American pop songs accompanied by the Cologne Studio Big Band, including, believe it or not, All I Want for ...
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With It's Christmas!, tenor Jonas Kaufmann delivers something for almost everyone, except perhaps fans of traditional classical holiday repertory: there are standard carols in German and English, traditional German tunes including dialect pieces in which Kaufmann seems quite comfortable, a French carol that calls forth a hitherto unknown voice from the tenor, and, probably controversially, a concluding sequence of American pop songs accompanied by the Cologne Studio Big Band, including, believe it or not, All I Want for Christmas is You. Other tunes are accompanied by the Mozarteum Orchestra or simple plucked accompaniments. One may be tempted to assert that Kaufmann has, in fact, delivered something for almost everyone not to like, but it's worth giving him a chance and accepting the album on its own terms. The unifying conceit is that the pieces are a personal collection from Kaufmann, and that's believable enough: the album has a flavor of trying to put a personal stamp on a wide variety of...
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- Gloria in Excelsis Deo
- Süßer die Glocken nie klingen, for chorus
- In dulci jubilo, for chorus & ensemble (from the Polyhymnia caduceatrix)
- Kommet, ihr Hirten, carol (Bohemian)
- Tochter Zion, freue dich (hymn setting after Handel)
- Ihr Kinderlein kommet (O Come Little Children), carol (German)
- Alle Jahre wieder
- Was soll das bedeuten
- Vom Himmel hoch, o Englein kommt, carol (German)
- Laßt uns froh und munter sein
- Leise rieselt der Schnee, carol (German)
- Morgen, Kinder, wird's was geben, song
- Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming), for chorus
- Macht hoch die Tür, carol (German)
- Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier, for voice & continuo, BWV 469 (BC F232) (Schemelli Gesangbuch No. 195)
- Oh, du fröhliche, oh, du selige (German)
- Still, Still, Still (Stille, stille, stille) (Austrian)
- O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf, carol (German)
- Kling, Glöchen, klingelingeling, for chorus
- Es wird schon gleich dumpa (The Twilight Is Falling) (Austrian)
- Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, carol (Blest Mary Wanders through the Thorn)
- Im Wald is so staad, for chorus
- Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her
- O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree) (German)
- Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
- Still, Still, Still (Stille, stille, stille) (Austrian)
- O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles)
- Cantique de Noël, for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, Chrétiens," "O Holy Night")
- Gesù bambino
- Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssohn's Festgesang for the Gutenberg Festival)
- In the Bleak Midwinter, for chorus & organ, H. 73/1
- Nu tändas tusen juleljus (A Thousand Candles Burning Bright), carol
- Entre le beouf et l'Ane gris, carol (France)
- What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)
- Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
- White Christmas, song (from "Holiday Inn")
- Jingle Bells
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (for the film Meet Me in St. Louis)
- Winter Wonderland
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
- Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
- All I Want for Christmas Is You
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