Max raabe heute nacht oder nie

In November 2007 German singer Max Raabe performed at Carnegie Hall with the Palast Orchester, presenting a half-English, half-German program of songs from the golden years of Weimar Germany.

The resulting recording—Heute Nacht Oder Nie (Tonight Or Never)—has spurred a flurry of activity both in the States and abroad, and Raabe has been on the road ever since its release in 2008.

Raabe and the Palast Orchester, 12 musicians of stunning precision (multiple horns, violin, viola, guitar, banjo, piano, bass and percussion), have been performing together for the last two decades, but Heute Nacht Oder Nie represents the group's first major launch in the US.

And what a launch it is: two discs and almost two hours of resurrected tunes from the '20s and '30s by composers such as Irving Berlin, Walter Jurmann and Kurt Weill, delivered in Ra