Between Two Wars: The Art of The Comedian Harmonists / Chanticleer

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Album Summary

Ensemble

• Chanticleer

Composers

• Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805)
• Erwin Bootz
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
• Walter Jurmann (1903 - 1971)
• Herman Hupfeld (1894 - 1951)
• Lensfelded
• German Traditional
• Werner Richard Heymann (1896 - 1961)
• Walter Donaldson (1893 - 1947)
• Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)
• Milton Ager (1893 - 1979)
• Bert Reisfeld
• Vincent Youmans (1898 - 1946)
• Cole Porter (1891 - 1964)
• Harold Arlen (1905 - 1986)
• Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)
• Erik Plessow/ Edmund Kötscher

Notes & Reviews:

Berlin, 1928: the heart of a nation racked by massive post-war inflation and unemployment. A city, notwithstanding, so vibrant with creativity that from the bohemian Friedrichsstrasse to the smart Kurfürstendamm there were two dozen concert halls and 35 theaters. Here, in the Grosses Schauspielhaus, Eric Charell's opulent revue Casanova provided the springboard to launch the Comedian Harmonists to stardom. From their very first appearance it was clear that in these five young singers and pianist made an ensemble of hitherto unimagined musical originality, precision, technical elegance, stagecraft and comic timing.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA (08/18/2002).

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Works Details

Ager, Milton : Wochenend und Sonnenschein

• Ensemble: Chanticleer
• Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Offenbach, Jacques : Hoffmanns Erzählungen (The Tales of Hoffmann) :: Barcarole

• Running Time: 2 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta

Lensfelded : Eine kleine Frühlingsweise (after Dvorák's Humoresque)

• Running Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1930s

Reisfeld, Bert : Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus

• Running Time: 2 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Boccherini, Luigi : Menuett

• Running Time: 3 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1771

Traditional, German : In einem kühlen Grunde

• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Erik Plessow/ Edmund Kötscher : Wenn die Sonja Russisch tanzt

• Notes: Composition written: Russia.
• Running Time: 3 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Bootz, Erwin : Schöne Isabella aus Kastilien

• Running Time: 3 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Heymann, Werner Richard : Liebling, mein Herz läát dich grüben

• Running Time: 3 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Heymann, Werner Richard : Ein Freund, ein guter Freund

• Running Time: 2 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Youmans, Vincent : Tea For Two, song

• Running Time: 3 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Brahms, Johannes : Hungarian Dance for piano, 4 hands, in G minor, WoO 1/5

• Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1858-1868

Traditional, German : Guter Mond du gehst so stille

• Running Time: 2 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Donaldson, Walter : You're Driving Me Crazy!

• Running Time: 2 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Heymann, Werner Richard : Das ist die Liebe der Matrosen

• Running Time: 3 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Porter, Cole : Night and day, song (from The Gay Divorcee)

• Running Time: 3 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Jurmann, Walter : Veronika, der Lenz ist da

• Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Ellington, Duke : Creole Love Call

• Running Time: 4 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Arlen, Harold : Stormy Weather

• Running Time: 3 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1933

Hupfeld, Herman : Mein Onkel Bumba

• Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal