On their new recording, the ensemble Le Quatuor Romantique plays the music that might have been performed in the home of a large, middle-class family around 1900, particularly focusing on the exciting, colourful melodies, breaking pensive moments with cheerful episodes only to question them again, experiencing childlike delight as well as darker thoughts.

Quatuor Romantique invited Elena Fink to interpret some of the enchanting, as well as the rare, Christmas carols which used to be at the heart of the late Romantic repertoire but which are often completely forgotten and disregarded today.

Contents:
- Tchaikovsky: Suite aus 'Der Nussknacker', Op.71
- Gustav Lewin: Weihnachtslied 'Nun ist sie endlich kommen'
- Sigismund Schneider: Weihnachtsmarsch
- Arnold Schoenberg: 'Weihnachtsmusik', Choralbearbeitung
- Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Arie 'Mein gläubiges Herze' (after J S Bach)
- Adolf Schreiner: Paraphrase über 'Stille Nacht'
- Wilhelm Berger: Weihnachtslied Op.52 No.4 'Vom Himmel in die tiefsten Klüfte'
- Arnold Mendelssohn: Weihnachtslied 'Markt und Straßen steh'n verlassen'
- Wilhelm Lindemann: 'Eine Muh, eine Mäh', Charakterstück
- Jonny Heykens: Ave Maria
- Jean Dasty: Ave Maria
- Siegfried Wagner: Weihnachtslied 'Was soll das bedeuten'
- Richard Eilenberg: 'Norwegische Renntierpost', Charakterstück
- Émile Waldteufel: 'Les Patineurs', Konzertwalzer
- Engelbert Humperdinck: Ouverture zur Oper 'Hänsel und Gretel'

Le Quatour Romantique:
- Vassili Voronin, violin
- Edward John Semon, cello
- Joachim Diessner, harmonium
- Markus Märkl, piano