Financial Times, October 3, 2014
By Richard Fairman
 
Jonas Kaufmann: You Mean the World to Me – review
Wonderful tunes here, a generous dollop of schmaltz, and crooning from the world’s top Wagner tenor

Or, as the song is known in German, “Du bist die Welt für Mich”, the Richard Tauber favourite.

Jonas Kaufmann’s album of popular music from Germany c. 1925-35 ranges from operettas like Lehár’s Das Land des Lächelns (”The Land of Smiles”) to songs from films, and a duet, with soprano Julia Kleiter, from Korngold’s opera Die tote Stadt. Some tracks have been specially recorded in English or French for local markets.

There are wonderful tunes here, a generous dollop of schmaltz, and far too much crooning into the microphone from the world’s top Wagner tenor.






 
 
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