Husky Hoffmann before gekünsteltem Orchestra

Having said that I am not an ancestral Klaus Hoffmann-fan who has to have every CD and deal therefore -Of loyalty with any weakness would be willing. For this very reason, however, I found this album particularly interested: Here, Hoffmann, rooted to his rather in pop music albums, discover the vastness of the large orchestra in itself, - a sound experience that probably comes from his Brel-trips and for him now, since "Hoffmann-Berlin" and "Melancholia", also for his new compositions is generally characteristic.
"My Way" is actually based on a promising basic idea: the big, old songs in an attractive selection in new, symphonic sound robe: I promised myself a deepening and enriching it. However, my opinion is just come out the opposite case: A real closeness and being touched could not really come up to me when listening - the arrangements that come in contrast to later albums of Ha-Wo bleach, but the experienced Brel composer Rauber itself are contrived over longer distances, with mannered, screwed upper voices, the move away from the original (guitar) harmony, want to make the songs a bit more complicated than they are - and thus come up with the Hoffman atmosphere of lyrical narrator hardly consistent , Since beautiful passages are, but all you have to be in front of unmotivated and disruptive dissonance additional ideas the arranger on the alert.
The second problem of this album is in my opinion that Hoffmann seems to have been hoarse during the entire recording session, especially in the heights brittle and dry in his voice, which he also that familiar from the original recordings of his songs sophistication and subtlety in expression especially on softer moments, not repeat them here, let alone could increase (before intrusive Orchestra). What could still be experienced in a live production as a sympathetic and natural, acting in such an orchestral studio production that something artistically Increased promises in the bud, simply out of place and unsatisfactory, a lost opportunity: a pity!