This eighth CD in this new series is dedicated to the Venetian composer Sandro Blumenthal (1874–1919), a versatile wanderer between the establishment and the avant-garde of the German musical and cultural landscape around the turn from the 19th to the 20th century.

After a promising start as a composer of serious music, he turned to the cabaret and became an important singer of cabaret lieder.

"It is harder to honor the memory of the nameless than of the famous."

Walter Benjamin

It might be harder, but often it is also more interesting, since the path through the yet dark regions of the history of mankind is like a veritable treasure hunt, unearthing undreamed-of valuables again and again. In addition to the finder's euphoria about his discovery comes the fact that he contributed to opening up a larger or smaller part of the past, thus saving it from being forgotten. Much has been written about Munich around 1900, one of the most important German artistic and cultural centers at the time, however, usually only about the most renowned protagonists of that golden era of the city, such as Thomas Mann and Richard Strauss. Many of the less famous and successful artists, on the other hand, were rarely mentioned at all, although they had just as decisive an influence on the scene.

One of them is the composer and singer Sandro Blumenthal. He became famous above all for his work as a cabaret singer, yet his early work - to which this first recording of his oeuvre is dedicated – shows him to be an equally talented composer of "serious music". [...]

(text extract of the CD booklet by Judith Kemp)