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Now and Forever –
Secara meets Kaempfert

marc secara - now and foreverRelease: 24. Juni 2011
Silver Spot # 1036001SSR
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As a connoisseur of Bert Kaempfert’s musical world, Marc Secara has chosen not to sing any of the maestro’s hits. Instead, this CD features songs from Kaempfert’s repertoire that are less well-known or to date have been heard “only” as instrumental versions.

The music has been so arranged as to lend it a rich and luxurious quality. Accompanied by a large band Secara swings and croons his way through twelve Kaempfert’s songs, songs that will rapidly become new evergreens.

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Now and Forever – Secara meets Kaempfert

now-and-forever plakatOctober 15, 2010, 8.00 p.m.
Theater Kehrwieder
Speicherstadt Hamburg

Friday, 15 October, sees Marc Secara together with orchestra and guest star Pe Werner celebrating the opening night of his stage show. In honour of Bert Kaempfert. In the city where on 16 October the composer was born, and in remembrance of his death thirty years ago. Not only has Kaempfert’s music survived the intervening decades but, thirty years after his passing, he is still providing new hits! Marc Secara presents well-known compositions from Kaempfert’s songbook as well as “hidden treasures in new guise”.

Discover and enjoy the music of a masterly production that started out from a dream…

For more information: www.now-and-forever.info

Bert Kaempfert
Vinyl-Single-Selection (1958–1969)

kaempfert single selectionPolydor # 272 819-9
Release: September 17, 2010

Contained in this Box of high quality finish are Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra’s most successful 20 singles released on the Polydor label between 1958 and 1969.

Mitternachts-Blues, Ducky, Patricia or Catalania being earworms in those days and Afrikaan Beat, Danke Schoen, Blue Midnight, L.O.V.E., Moon Over Naples (Spanisch Eyes), Strangers In The Night or Wonderland By Night stormed the international charts as singles.

For vinyl collectors and lovers of this orchestral music a long-held wish has now doubtless come true!

For more Information about the Vinyl-Single-Selection click here

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Re-Releases
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra

Release: May 07, 2010

Portugal Fado, Wine & Sunshine (1958)
CD # 272 249-4

Combo Capers (1960)
CD # 273 421-8

Dancing In Wonderland (1961)
CD # 273 624-3

Wonderland By Night (1961)
CD # 273 383-8

With A Sound In My Heart (1962)
CD # 273 417-5

A Swingin’ Safari (1962)
CD # 273 639-9

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Bert Kaempfert – The many steps along his life’s path

stationen eines lebens 280pIn an in-depth portrait of Bert Kaempfert, Hamburg music journalist and author Bernd Matheja documents the stages in this artist’s career, his musical influences and personal achievements.

Click on BIOGRAPHY to view the many photographs and to read about the life of a composer who was born over eighty years ago in a working-class district of Hamburg.