From the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, the singer has recorded around 110 songs in the German language and about three dozen in English, French, Spanish, Italian and even Japanese. Not even half of them had come out until recently on CD. The new MDR-music specialist Frank Eberlein (the forward the phenomenal Sampler New Oldies country needs Vol. 1: Hits & Rarities of the 60s / 70s and New Oldies country needs Vol. 2: Hits & Rarities of 80 as well as their German has brought counterparts) compiled carefully and wisely CD-Box fills a major gap. One can not say enough about this. The result of the remastering is excellent and fortunately in recent years without the widespread tendency to override the recordings up to the pain threshold. One of Vorrezensenten assigns the title indeed a very good information that you would like to refer to the CD booklet, which unfortunately - is kept very spartan - this should be noted as the only point of criticism.
Of course you would like to finally hear Katja Ebsteins interpretation of George Harrison's "Something" of 1970 and a few more of its German, French and English Vinlyschätze that are elsewhere to find unfortunately neither on this box yet, on CD. But the selection convinced yet; the with Verve sung and lushly orchestrated "Port Of Spain", Ebsteins wonderful version of "My Colouring Book" ("My picture book") or the tense, strange zweistimmig sung and aufwartende with unexpected tonality Jump "Sometime" (probably their first record release in 1965) are just three of many highlights. And that you can now halt again takes on a compilation the hits "There was once a hunter" or "theater" (CD1) for the umpteenth time, the fact is probably due to that a CD box would hardly sell only rarities. It can also be seen positively: Who buys something from Katja Ebstein for the first time, now can hear through the full range of their recordings from 1965 to 1983. And Ebstein connoisseurs get a unique opportunity to complement their collection.
