by Monica Hunter-Hart, Guest Contributor

Who among us can recall, through personal memory, the Weimar Republic’s cultural renaissance from 1924-1929, considered the German Golden Era? Such a person would have to be around a hundred years old. German tenor Jonas Kaufmann probably won’t find many centenarians among his audience—but Sony Classical’s September 2014 release Du bist die Welt für mich (“You Mean the World to Me”) is sure to make listeners yearn for a time they never knew. [Read more…]