Max Raabe solo beach

Max Raabe with solo program "Across the Sea" at the Prince Regent Theatre
Max Raabe at the beach - Photo: Concert Office AugsburgThe sea is a romantic metaphor - a symbol of longing and renewal, for parting and longing. Chamber music with an acoustic intensity designs Max Raabe panorama of this enigmatic world of feelings. In predominantly quiet sounds told the solo concert program "Across the Sea" by love and longing, of departing and arriving. Concentrated and varied biases as well as voluminous baritone voice of the great precision, melodramatic arc - serene, elegiac and melancholy. On 30/09/2012, Max Raabe with "Across the Sea" a guest at the Prince Regent Theatre in Munich.
The pieces were written for the most part towards the end of the Weimar Republic, this experimental and contradictory, and wonderfully wacky but not "golden" time. Legendary composers and lyricists such as Fritz Rotter, Robert Gilbert, Walter Jurmann, Austin Egen, Hans May, Walter Reisch and Werner Richard Heymann, without exception, of Jewish origin had, via Vienna, Paris and London to emigrate to the United States - literally "the sea" and far away from home and that language, which she loved and so masterfully controlled. Some were lucky and made careers in Hollywood, not a few later returned to Germany. May their names be known today only a few - their melodies sound across all depths and time breaks.

The ingenious mix of melancholy and irony, sadness and joy of life is the brazen still unmatched legacy of a culture that was destroyed in 1933 brutally. All the wonderful triumph of the late great artist, whose unique, always romantically colored spirit moved with instinctive sureness between major and minor, between the Little and the Great, the Light and Heavy, between wit and madness of life.
A cycle of songs like Max Raabe summarizes the songs, hits and couplets together atmospheric. Classics such as "Ninon," "Somewhere in the world" or "A Song Goes Round the World" Raabe interpreted with a delicate shine away any false sweetness. The silent longing "When the wind blows across the sea" - in the original sung by the Comedian Harmonists - after that line is drawn, which bears the name of the concert program.
Come and visit Max Raabe's solo concert program "Across the Sea" on 09.30.2012 in the Prince Regent Theatre in Munich.