Pianist Wolfgang Köhler, saxophonist Peter Weniger, and singer Marc Secara have created a work whose attitude and aesthetic are rare today. Their collaborative album harks back to an art form once championed by greats like Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, George & Ira Gershwin, and Rodgers & Hart—the pinnacle of songwriting: artfully constructed, melodically rich, lyrically profound, and imbued with an elegance that resonates across generations.

But this is not nostalgia or mere homage. All the pieces were newly composed by Wolfgang Köhler and Canadian lyricist Mike Segal , with the ambition to reinterpret the essence of that great tradition and translate it into our time. They crafted their songs with the same meticulous care that once defined the golden age of the Great American Songbook. The result is a collection of songs of poignant poetry, brimming with harmonic and melodic sophistication and subtle emotion. Music that tells the stories of life and of us as human beings. Music that leaves space and breathes.

The result is a cycle of songs, gracefully poetic, emotionally truthful, and imbued with a timeless elegance. COME WHAT MAY

Together with a string quartet comprised of musicians from the Deutsche Oper and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Secara-Weniger-Köhler Trio celebrates the record release today at A-Trane .