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NEW ALBUM RELEASED:
DANCE and SWING MUSIC of the "ROARING TWENTIES"

The Cologne New Philharmonic and Volker Hartung invite you on a journey back in time to the 'Golden Twenties' and their ingenious swing music from Broadway to Berlin.
They immersed themselves in the playing style and sound aesthetics of the time and play in a unique playing style the best hits of the swing era from the original arrangements.

Some songs are so deeply rooted in the attitude to life of a region that one can rightly call them "Hits. " For New York and the American attitude to life, Broadway and its films, its shows, and theaters were and are a synonym of national cultural identity. Names of composers such as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Benny Goodman, and their melodies were omnipresent in New York, just as the film in Babelsberg in Berlin developed a unique cultural flowering. Talented film composers such as Friedrich Holländer became famous overnight through 'The Blue Angel.' The famous hit 'Falling in Love Again' and the legs of the beautiful Marlene Dietrich enchanted Berlin and the whole world.
Listen to the great film and dance tunes of the 'Golden Twenties' on a musical walk from Broadway to Berlin with the beguiling sound of the Cologne New Philharmonic under my direction.
Have much fun!

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Original Argentine Tangos

Historische Originalaufnahmen • Enregistrements historiques • Original historic recordings
Buenos Aires – Paris, 1925 – 1945

This album presents 28 of the greatest ARGENTINE TANGOS, recorded in Buenos Aires and Paris between 1925 and 1945 during it’s fantastic Music's Golden Age.
It is restored in pristine quality from the original shellac records and presents the best Tango composers and orchestras in various famous and rarely-known works.
Here you can listen to fabulous Tangos played by the real original bands, who developed and cherished this most beautiful dance. Players like the legendary Francesco Canaro and his Orquesta Tipica Argentin, the famous Tango singer Carlos #Gardel. Bandoneon virtuosos Mario Melfi and Tani Scala in their French recordings. There is also Eva Bohr- the remarkable woman who composed and directed her own Tango Orchestra during the Golden Twenties - and much, much more!
Go and try out the eight pretty steps which make the distinguished savvy Tango dancer- here are the right tunes for it!



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Original Argentine Tangos

Historische Originalaufnahmen • Enregistrements historiques • Original historic recordings
Buenos Aires – Paris, 1920 – 1940
Tango, Tango - this album presents a selection of the best argentine Tangos from the golden era 1920-1940.
Transferred from original shellack masters in pristine quality it offers the greatest pleasure listening to the wonderful playing of the most famous argentine tango singers and orchestras.


Mala suerte • Francisco Canaro • Orquesta Tipica Argentin
Tormenta • Francisco Canaro • Orquesta Tipica Argentin
Desengano • José M. Lucchesi • Orchestre de Tangos
Madreselva • Francisco Canaro • Orquesta Tipica Argentin
Primer Amor • José Granados • Orchestre de Tangos
La Cumparsita • Oscar Roma • Orquesta argentin
La Muchacha del circo • Carlos Gardel (Matos Rodriguez)


and much
more…

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'A sad thought, which you can dance', so described him Enrique Santos Discépolo, one of the greatest poets of Tango texts.
The Tango is one of the great authentic folk music of the world.

These recordings astonish not only by their passion, heartbreaking and typical Argentine melancholy, but they produce a mood, which Transports us back into these distant era.Great composers embraced the Tango (Ravel, Albéniz, Stravinsky and many more) and he moved into the elegant salons of the French metropolis. Many Tango artists came from Buenos Aires and worked in Paris, and they recorded numerous records. Some of these songs can be heard on this album, and their text are sung in French.
Unfortunately not much remains from the splendor of this time any longer, just photos, scores and shellac records are witness to its heritage.
The selection, which you, dear listeners and have in front of your eyes and ears offers a diverse collection of over 20 years of tango history, played by different formations.

Listen for example to the individual voices in Tango-couplets, accompanied by a single guitar, in which the typical rhythm is only hinted at and the lyrical character of singing stands in the foreground. You also will listen to numerous Tango hits, that could effortlessly flame up every today's Ballroom atmosphere.
It is admirable, how free, how passionately and relaxed the singers and musicians play out their emotions, how entirely genuine they could express their feelings and how tastefully and naturally all this is done: it comes to us after so many years and every Tango Orchestra has its own distinguished sound.


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Louis Armstrong and The All Stars
October 16, 1957: Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, California
A concert for the National Tuberculosis Association -- doubtful, though, that Armstrong and crew refrained from smoking for the day!



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Sidney BECHET at the Paris International Jazz Festival 1949 with Orchestra Pierre Braslavsky
At the Paris Jazz Festival in May 1949 Sidney Bechet, who was formerly not very well known, became the most outstanding and talked-about performer.
His remarkable musicality, paired with exceptional instrumental skills, the roundness of intonation and the generosity of his phrasing, and the form of contact between him and his public explains his fabulous success. During the one free day of the festival, he was invited to fly to Geneva, where, together with the Orchestra of Pierre Braslavsky he gave his one-time debut in Switzerland on 14 May 1949.
The accompanying musicians did a fine job supporting Bechet in this extraordinary concert, especially the rhythm section with Roger Kara, Michel Pacout, and the great bassist Eddie Bernard, who also had some good solo passages on their own.
The recording of this historic event was restored with great care to today’s listening standards.

At the International Jazz Festival of Paris in May 1949 Sidney Bechet, who was formerly not very well known there, became the most outstanding and talked-about performer.
His remarkable musicality, paired with exceptional instrumental skills, the roundness of intonation and the generosity of his phrasing, and the form of contact between him and his public explains his fabulous success. During the one free day of the festival, he was invited to fly to Geneva, where, together with the Orchestra of Pierre Braslavsky he gave his one-time debut in Switzerland on 14 May 1949.
The accompanying musicians did a fine job supporting Bechet in this extraordinary concert, especially the rhythm section with Roger Kara, Michel Pacout, and the great bassist Eddie Bernard, who also had some good solo passages on their own.
The recording of this historic event was restored with great care to today’s listening standards.

This album contains Sidney Bechet's sensational concerts in Paris in May 1949. Formerly not very known there he became the most outstanding and talked about performer at the International Jazz Festival of Paris and also at the 'Jazz Parades'. His presence on the stage with Pierre Braslovsky's Orchestra aroused an enormous wave of enthusiasm. His remarkable musicality, paired with exceptional instrumental skills, the roundness of intonation and the generosity of his phrasing, and the form of contact between him and his public explains his fabulous success.
The extremely rare recording taken from contemporary broadcast emissions was of very low sound quality. Great efforts were applied to restore these phenomenal performances to today's listening standards.




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Georges BOULANGER (1893-1958)
The great Gipsy Violinist Der große Zigeunergeiger • Le grand violoniste gitan

Original recordings from the 1930s and 40s:
What a gypsy feels like, Puszta dreams, Black Eyes, Lonely Under the Stars, Amoureuse, Tokaj, Loin du Bal, Da capo.v.a
Originalaufnahmen aus den 30er und 40er Jahren: Was ein Zigeuner fühlt, Pusztaträume, Schwarze Augen, Einsam unterm Sternenzelt, Amoureuse, Tokaj, Loin du Bal, Da capo.v.a Georges Boulanger, Violin and his orchestra

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01 The violin in love
02 Julika
03 I want to dream of the Puszta
04 Magya Bor
05 Max and Moritz
06 red roses
07 Puszta fairy tale
08 Love (Slowfox)
09 You, you pass me (Slowfox)
10 Puszta Fox (Slowfox from Operetta »Doroszmai Szelmalom)
11 my heart! (Tango)
12 Lonely under the stars
13 Tango, you are my favorite music (Tango)
14 At the Black Sea (Tango)
15 Tango Marina
16 two guitars
17 Africa
18 Hungarian Tokay (foxtrot)
19 Kiss Me Under Stars (Foxtrot)
20 Da Capo (Foxtrot)


Who and what was Georges Boulanger? Despite his preeminence as a gypsy violinist, he was no gypsy.
Born into a musical family in 1893 in Tuclea, Romania, as the son of a Greek father and Bulgarian mother,
his real name of Panzati was set aside in favor of the good sounding pseudonym.
The name Boulanger, created by his Francophile parents, soon made him world-famous.
He received the best possible training at the Bucharest Conservatory and then in Dresden with Leopold Auer,
the most famous violin teacher of the time, and whose world-renowned students (i.e. Jascha
Heifetz and Nathan Milstein) were the most significant virtuosi. Georges Boulanger conquered the field in Berlin of the 1930s as one of the greatest and most famous Gypsy Violinist with his incomparable tone, his vibrato, his great virtuosity and distinguished showmanship.
Those who will listen to his recordings have had an encounter with greater art.
One can hear his delightful compositions, his standards and classics, the tangos of his
best time which, thanks to modern techniques, again sound fresh and new - better than ever.
It makes him unforgettable. Salon Music and Georges Boulanger:
DA CAPO!


Georges Boulanger (1893-1958) was a Romanian violinist, conductor and composer.
He is considered one of the most important salon violinists of the interwar period. He achieved great fame in the 1920s and 1930s, especially in Germany. Boulanger played for various record companies records and reached its peak in the years 1935/1936.

He was student of Leopold Auer in Dresden until 2010. (Other students of Auer were Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, and Mischa Elman.) Boulanger reached great fame in the salons of St. Petersburg, before coming to Berlin in 1922, where he reached fame with his own compositions of distinguished salon music for the violin.
Boulanger played in radio transmissions that were broadcast live throughout the country. He played in the most famous houses in Berlin and other large European cities such as the Savoy Hotel in London and was contracted by the Bote & Bock Edition who published his musical compositions.

The recordings of this album have been directly transferred from the original 78rpm-matrices and therefore deliver the definite best possible sound results.





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Melody of my dreams - A voice returns Magda Hain - The great German soprano
Original recordings with compositions by Gerhard Winkler 1930-1950
Capri-Fisher • Wedding in the Puszta • Blue are the nights in Spain Song of the Lark • Casanova song • Hurra the circus is here Melodie meiner Träume - Eine Stimme kehrt zurück Originalaufnahmen mit Kompositionen von Gerhard Winkler 1930-1950 Capri-Fischer • Hochzeit in der Puszta Blau sind die Nächte in Spanien Lied der Lerche • Casanovalied Hurra der Zirkus ist da, u.va
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Melodie meiner Träume
Frühling in Paris
Märchen aus dem fernen Orient
Alt-Berliner Kremserfahrt
Blau sind die Nächte in Spanien
In Deiner Heimat
Möwe, Du fliegst in die Heimat
Am Himmel zieh'n die Wolken in die Ferne
Sei gegrüsst, mein Zillertal
Schäferliebe
Der fröhliche Musikant
Ein Sommer ging vorbei
Grossmütterlein
Liebeslied (Es gibt kein Wort dafür)
Hurra, der Zirkus ist da


This album may help to recall the memory of the voice phenomenon Magda Hain, who, as a 19-year-old stenographer, became one of the most popular singers for German radio listeners during WWII.
The songs that Berlin composer Gerhard Winkler wrote for her have become an integral part of German music. With this production, the voice of Magda Hain returns again to the German and international music distribution. The historic recordings, produced between 1942 and 1952, are restored in a cautious manner, so that the original sound of her splendid voice is fully retained.


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Argentine Tangos with Marikena Monti
Tango Argentino mit Marikena Monti

Libertango, Quejas de Bandoneon, La Cumparsita, Nocturna, Nostalgia, Lo que vendra, Cambalache, Danzarin, Ballada del muerte, Attenti pepeta, Responso, Mi Buenos Aires, Verano porteno u.v.a
with compositions by • mit Werken von: Astor Piazolla, Anibal Troilo, Juan de Dios Filiberto, Matos Rodriguez, Julian Plaza, Santos Discepolo Celedonio Flores, Lecuona u.v.a

Adolfo R. Gomez & Gilberto Pereyra, bandoneon Pablo Gatto, bass • Roberto Cesar Calixto Cigare, piano Marikena Monti, vocals
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VOLKER HARTUNG, conductor


Live Recording from a public performance in Bonn, Germany
A great event - and a marvellous recording!
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This Album is the result of a unique cooperation between the wonderful tango singer Marikena Monti, Volker Hartung, the Cologne New Philharmonic and famous tango players from Buenos Aires. With Maestro Adolfo Gomez, grand seigneur of the Bandoneon, the young and genial Alberto Pereyra, the amazing pianist Roberto César Calixto Cicare and double-bass virtuoso Pablo Gatto they formed a unique blend of European & Argentine band sound reviving the greatest argentine tangos of the past century. Rarely will one listen to a recording of Tango music played with more devotion and fire. The young musicians of the Cologne Orchestra were carried away and overwhelmed by the overpowering emotional impact of this great music. Some of them regard this experience to this day as the most musical rewarding in their memories. One may listen to this feast of sound and emotion and feel the same joy, than they did, when recording it live in concerts in Germany.


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Camera... Action! Film Music of the Golden 1920s and Thirties German Silverscreen Classics • The Vintage Arrangements Achtung... Aufnahme! Filmmusik der goldenen 1920er und Dreissiger Jahre in Original Arrangements

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This album consists of recordings of German film music from the Golden1920s and Thirties.
The magic word of jazz music at the time was SWING.
This music found its way into the sound tracks of the first 'Talkies' in 1929. Most scores of these songs had been lost since then and could only be recovered by great efforts. After almost 70 years, this music is now again performed in its original arrangements and delights the ear of the listener by its amazing melodiousness and the magnificent sound of their artful original arrangements.



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SHINING STARS … Es leuchten die Sterne
Film & Light Music from the Golden 1920s to 1950s
German Silverscreen Classics • The Vintage Scores The great works of light & film music 1920-1950 in original arrangements Große Unterhaltungsmusik der 1920er bis 1950er Jahre in Original- Arrangements Les grandes œuvres de la musique legère 1920-1950 dans les arrangements originaux
Orient Express, Malaga, Illusion, Night Specter, Night at the Reeperbahn at half past twelve, Munchausen Suite, Piroshka Suite, Sounding Newsreel, Munich Story, Beautiful Argentina, Song of the Lark, Chianti Song, Capri-Fisher, Bel Ami, Eau de Cologne, Señor and Señorita
and much more ...

Orient-Express, Malaga, Illusion, Das Nachtgespenst, Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins, Münchhausen-Suite, Piroshka-Suite, Klingende Wochenschau, Münchner Geschichten, Schöne Argentina, Lied der Lerche, Chianti-Lied, Capri-Fischer Bel Ami • Eau de Cologne, Señor und Señorita and much more...

with

Angèle Durand, Gerhard Jussenhoven, Willy Ketzer, Stefan Vincke Martina Winter and Frank Struck

COLOGNE NEW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
VOLKER HARTUNG, conductor


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recorded at Kölner Philharmonie

On this 2-Set-Album you are listening to recordings of German Film and Light Music from the Thirties to the Fifties of the last century. The magic word of the jazz music at the time was SWING. This music found its way into the sound tracks of the first 'Talkies' and Shows since 1929 in Berlin.
Most scores of these songs had been lost since WW2 and could only be recovered with great efforts. After more than 80 years, this music is now again being performed in original arrangements and will delight the ear of the listener with it’s amazing melodiousness and magic of sound.