Includes recreations of the music of the great pre-war German vocal group, The Comedian Harmonists, as celebrated by Cantabile with Barry Humphries in a recent BBC Christmas special programme.
The sound of Max Reinhardt’s groundbreaking Berlin cabaret is brought to life in songs by its leading songwriters, including Friedrich Hollaender (Falling in Love Again) and Mischa Spoliansky (Love, Tell Me Tonight), whom the Nazis eventually forced to emigrate by banning jazz in 1933.
Cantabile travel with them to England and to America, where they trace the heritage of this tradition, as Broadway becomes the new home of musical theatre and composers such as George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, and. Duke Ellington.
