Jonas Kaufmann

Jonas Kaufmann – Nessun Dorma – The Puccini Album (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:52 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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The ultimate all-Puccini album from “The greatest tenor of our day”. Contains famous arias and scenes drawn from Puccini’s greatest operas including Turandot, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and more…
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Jonas Kaufmann – L’Opéra (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:04 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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This record sees the most francophone (and francophile) of the German tenors take up a few pearls from the French repertoire. What’s more, it’s not only the big hits: “La fleur que tu m’avais jetée” is up in front, but also – or even, first and foremost – much rarer pearls have been fished up from the shoals of Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Thomas or Lalo. Jonas Kaufmann has succeeded in developing an irreproachable French elocution, in an equally impeccable style, denuded of the base Italianisms – glissandos, cooing, sobs, parasitic diphthongs, fermatas on the high Cs, etc. – that so many tenors (Italians, yes, but also French singers, including some stars…) impose on this music, which is not built to support them. Kaufmann’s voice, which almost approaches a baritone, confers a different masculinity onto these roles (which is neither a virtue nor a vice, but a fundamental quality) and a depth for which the roles of Nadir, Don José or Werther all cry out. Moreover, Kaufmann’s dynamic palette, from the fullest fortissimo to the suavest murmur, including on the high notes, is a joy to behold. The excellent Ludovic Tézier provides his counterpart in the duo of Pêcheurs de perles, while Sonia Yoncheva takes on the role of the tender Manon – even if the latter’s French still leaves a little to be desired.
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Jonas Kaufmann – It’s Christmas! (Extended Edition) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:19:31 minutes | 2,60 GB | Genre: Classical
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With his Christmas album It’s Christmas! Jonas Kaufmann 2020 succeeded an atmospheric and extremely successful holiday album. Just in time for the concert tour, which finally takes place this winter, an “extended edition” with seven new titles will be released on October 29th by Sony Classical.
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Jonas Kaufmann – It’s Christmas! (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:00:01 minutes | 2,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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In a Christmas album that is a gift itself, Jonas Kaufmann the most acclaimed operatic tenor of the age echoes his own holiday memories and joys with It s Christmas!, celebrating the most festive time of the year with a unique selection of beloved songs and carols. This uniquely rich and diverse holiday album features 40 favorites that reflect the many facets of Christmas, from ancient Christian hymns to contemporary pop classics.
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Jonas Kaufmann – Dolce Vita (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:57 minutes | 2,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Italy! Like nowhere else on earth – the sunshine and sea salt, the smell of citrus and coffee, a flirtatious glance, an incomparable song drawn deep from the heart. Italy and its immortal music have a magical pull on people like no other culture – and Jonas Kaufmann feels this particularly keenly. The new album Dolce vita is his tribute to this culture, this way of life that has conceived one immortal melody after the other for the tenor voice and influenced him so much. Now Sony Classical is proud to present this special collection of timeless Italian songs – sung by “The world’s greatest tenor” (The Daily Telegraph).
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Jonas Kaufmann – An Italian Night – Live from the Waldbühne Berlin (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:53 minutes | 805 MB | Genre: Classical
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Built to specifications set down by Joseph Goebbels for the 1936 Olympic Games as a showcase of triumphant Nazism, this open-air stage was inspired by the ancient theatre of Epidaurus, and had almost perfect acoustics. With the theatre renamed “Waldbühne” (forest stage) and the ghosts of the past exorcised, this gigantic space was used in the 1960s for boxing matches and rock concerts, including the 1965 Rolling Stones show which ended in a veritable riot. There was nothing like that on the July evening in 2018 when Jonas Kaufmann gave his recital, although a very large crowd had come to hear their national tenor deliver a 100% Italian repertoire. It was chilly that night in Berlin, with rainclouds threatening, but the 20,000 spectators gave long ovations for Jonas Kaufmann and the Berlin Radio Orchestra, conducted by Jochen Rieder, in this concert which was also graced by the Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili.
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Jonas Kaufmann – It’s Christmas! (Gold Edition) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:32:32 minutes | 3,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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“It’s Christmas!” is the first Christmas album by the German world star. Jonas Kaufmann has selected his favorite Christmas songs from Germany and around the world and recorded them with fantastic musicians. The German Christmas songs Jonas Kaufmann chose are closely connected with his memories of happy Christmases with his family, that’s why on CD 1 there are not only well-known German Christmas songs like “Leise rieselt der Schnee”, “Alle Jahre wieder …”, “Vom Himmel hoch” or “Tochter Zion” on the album, but also special Bavarian folk tunes like “Es wird scho glei dumpa” and “Im Woid is so staad”. A highlight on the album is certainly the touching “Silent Night”, in which Jonas Kaufmann is accompanied only by a harp. American Christmas songs such as “White Christmas”, “O Holy Night”, “Let it snow” and “Winter Wonderland” are also among Kaufmann’s favorites, because his father often put on the legendary Christmas records by Bing Crosby, Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald after the presents at Christmas. In addition, CD 2 also features particularly beautiful French, English, Italian and Swedish Christmas songs in new arrangements.
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