Quarterly Critic’s Choice
The best and most interesting new releases of the previous three months are awarded a place on the Quarterly Critic’s Choice. Evaluation criteria are artistic quality, repertoire value, presentation, and sound quality. From 2014 onward, the Long Lists are stored directly with each Quarterly Critic’s Choice.
German language Singer/Songwriters
Nur meine Lieder
Song companions sing Christof Stählin. Grosche, Max Prosa & Claudia Fink, Dietlinde Ellsässer, Reinhard Mey, Sebastian Krämer, Bodo Wartke, Linard Bardill, Joana Emetz & Barbara Thalheim, Thomas Felder & Johanna Zeul, Holger Saar, Manfred Maurenbrecher et al.. Buschfunk 08422
What a piece! The artists gathered on this CD make it one of a kind: artists such as Reinhard Mey, Manfred Maurenbrecher, Bodo Wartke, Barbara Thalheim with Joana, Max Prosa, Sebastian Krämer or Johanna Zeul, together with her father Thomas Felder, as well as others. These names guarantee an extraordinary variety of interpretations of songs from almost the entire creative period of the jubilee Christoph Stählin, who would have turned 80 this year. The CD is a worthy tribute to the »word magician, universal scholar, and philosopher, poet, writer, essayist, cabaret artist, linguist, musician, poetry teacher« (Lieder-poet Holger Saarmann). For the jury: Petra Schwarz