It's Christmas! (Gold Edition)
Release Date: 11/25/2022
"It's Christmas!" is the Christmas bestseller album by the German classical world star Jonas Kaufmann. The exceptional tenor has chosen his favorite Christmas songs from Germany and around the world and recorded them with excellent musicians. The result is a music album that fulfills all musical desires for a festive, contemplative, or swinging Christmas season. Now, this bestseller is available in a limited gold edition as an extended 3CD set. For this album, Jonas Kaufmann himself has recorded his favorite Christmas poems and stories, including well-known ones like "Christmas Eve" (Hermann Hesse), "Song in Advent" (Matthias Claudius), "The Holy Night" (Ludwig Thoma), as well as true rarities like "On December 24th" (Theodor Fontane), "The Star" (Wilhelm Busch), or "A Bavarian Advent Story". The high-quality booklet contains numerous personal photos and favorite recipes of Jonas Kaufmann.
The many Christmas songs that Jonas Kaufmann selected for "It's Christmas!" are closely tied to his memories of joyful Christmases spent with his family. That's why CD 1 features many of the most beautiful German Christmas songs like "Softly Falls the Snow," "O Holy Night," "Still, still...," "Every Year Again...," "From Heaven on High...," or "Daughter Zion." Jonas Kaufmann is accompanied by the excellent Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Jochen Rieder, the Bach Choir Salzburg, and the St. Florian Boys' Choir, who provide a wonderfully warm, radiant sound to the elegant, mostly new arrangements. One of the highlights on the album is certainly the touching "Silent Night," where Jonas Kaufmann is accompanied only by a harp.
Spreading good cheer on CD 2 are American Christmas evergreens like "White Christmas," "O Holy Night," "Let it Snow," or "Winter Wonderland," which are among Kaufmann's favorites because his father often played the legendary Christmas records of Bing Crosby, Sinatra, and Ella Fitzgerald after the gift exchange on Christmas. CD 2 also features particularly beautiful French, English, Italian, Swedish, and Bavarian Christmas songs in new arrangements. For "Let it Snow" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," the German jazz star Till Brönner is a fantastic, inspiring soloist.
With the extremely varied and high-quality "It's Christmas!" Jonas Kaufmann once again demonstrates his outstanding versatility and quality. With its stylistic variety and quality, the album is the perfect Christmas album for those who want to celebrate a contemplative, joyful, and festive Christmas season. It's also an ideal gift, as the three CDs of "It's Christmas!" come in a lovingly designed, high-quality, gold-colored deluxe digipack. The 100-page booklet contains personally selected Christmas poems by Jonas Kaufmann, photos from his childhood Christmases, recipes for his favorite Christmas treats, lots of personal content, and all song lyrics.
Tracklisting
- Engel haben Himmelslieder / Gloria in excelsis Deo
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Süßer die Glocken nie klingen
- Adeste fideles
- Cantique de Noël (Minuit, Chrétiens) / O Holy Night
- Trois anges sont venus ce soir
- In dulci jubilo
- Kommet, ihr Hirten
- Tochter Zion
- Ihr Kinderlein, kommet
- What Child Is This?
- Silent Night
- Es wird scho glei dumpa
- Still, still, still
- Maria durch ein Dornwald ging
- Im Woid is so staad
- Alle Jahre wieder
- White Christmas
- Jingle Bells
- Was soll das bedeuten?
- Vom Himmel hoch, ihr Englein, kommt!
- Gesù bambino
- Lasst uns froh und munter sein
- Leise rieselt der Schnee
- Morgen, Kinder, wird's was geben
- Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris
- Der englische Gruß
- Auf, ihr Hirtensleut
- Als Maria übers Gebirge ging
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
- Macht hoch die Tür
- Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier, BWV 469
- Zu Bethlehem geboren
- Jetzt fangen wir zum Singen an
- Mariä Wiegenlied
- O du fröhliche
- O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf
- Kling, Glöckchen, klingelingeling
- Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her
- O Tannenbaum
- Nu tändas tusen juleljus
- Stille Nacht
- Still, still, still
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- 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
- Die Weihnachtsgeschichte aus dem Lukas-Evangelium (2, 1-20)
- Ein Weihnachtsgast
- Die Gabe der Weisen
- Der Traum
- Lied im Advent
- Weihnachten
- Weihnachten
- Die heilige Nacht
- Die Weihe der Nacht
- Weihnachtsabend
- Weihnachtslied
- Knecht Ruprecht
- Christkind im Walde
- Der Stern
- Advent
- Es gibt so wunderweiße Nächte
- Weihnachten
- Weihnachtsabend
- Denkt euch, ich habe das Christkind gesehen!
- Der Weihnachtsbaum
- Einsiedlers Heiliger Abend
- Zum 24. Dezember
- Der Dezember
- Weihnachtslied, chemisch gereinigt
- Die Weihnachtsgans
- Die Weihnachtsmaus
- Die heilige Nacht
- Eine bayerische Adventsgeschichte
- Travniceks Weihnachtseinkäufe