Track Listing

1. "Che gelida manina"
2. La fleur que tu m'avais jetée
3. Ach, so fromm
4. "E lucevan le stelle"
5. Io l'ho perduta... Io la vidi, a suo sorriso
6. "Nein, länger trag' ich nicht die Quälen" - "Durch die Wälder, durch die Auen"
7. Lunge da lei...De miei bollenti spiriti...O mio rimorso
8. Je suis seul...Ah, fuyez, douce image
9. "Ella mi fu rapita...Parmi veder le lagrime"
10. Quel trouble inconnu...Salut! Demeure chaste et pure
11. "Morgenlich leuchtend"
12. Invocation à la Nature. "Nature immense"
13. "Pourquoi me réveiller, ô souffle du printemps?"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3017 in Music
• Released on: 2008-01-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 65 minutes

New York Magazine
"smoothly burnished, beautifully focused... and always disarmingly musical"

The Guardian
"superb"

The Telegraph
'With his full, warm voice rich in russet and ebony colours, he sings Italian and French with as much aplomb as he does his native German...'

Customer Reviews

Review
Gramophone


Don't judge this album from the first aria - the Puccini arias are the weakest here. The French repertoire finds Kaufmann on excellent form. The most encouraging thing about him is his musical intelligence - a genuine soft high note to crown his Carmen Flower Song - and elsewhere he strives to serve the music. The voice can't quite do all he asks yet, but it's full of brooding, Vinay-like darkness.

Over ambitious?
Yes, it's a stupendous voice, and Kaufmann is one of the great singers currently before the public, but some of these arias just don't suit him. Where is Rodolfo's good humour, Alfredo's youthful ebullience? The "Traviata" aria must be one of the least buoyant ever recorded. He floats a lovely voix mixte top C at the end of "Salut, demeure", but where is the sense of rapture and wonder? It's all a bit frowny and charmless, and all these varied characters sound more or less like the same person. He's at his considerable best in the dramatic arias, the Don Carlo, Werther, Max in "Freischutz", Don Jose, the anguished introverts; these tracks are magnificent, but anything which requires him to SMILE is beyond him. A pity, because in the right repertoire he's a world-beater, he's just overstretched himself here.

Spectacular!
THIS IS A VERY FINE VOICE OF SPECTACULAR QUALITY AND DRAMATIC ABILITY .kAUFFMANS VOICE REMINDS ME veryMUCH OF GIUSSEPPI giacominni.It is wonderfull to hear of a new tenor with such an incredible instrument instead of the usual trend that universal seem to indulge in of picking a performer for good looks and youth with substandard vocal abilities no names mentioned!!The A and R personel should look closer under their noses to find diamonds like Kaufmann believe me there are plenty of them all over the globe and bring back quality , and stop short changing the public. Jonas Kaufmann we will surely be seeing and hearing more of this fine exponent of his art congratulations!!! more of the same quality please universal!!