1993: "Nobody is asleep in heaven" - "Ciudad sin sueño" CD
Poetry of F.G. Lorca set to music. Christina Zurbrügg Quartett.

"The world is small and the heart is vast" – Yes, she has got a big heart. With lots of feeling the Swiss artist always finds the specifically suitable sound … sometimes folky, sometimes jazzy…she sings dramatically, melancholy, but always accentuates right. (Kurier)

The effects of this interaction between traditional and unconventional instruments, the mixture of different styles are fascinating – luscious, melancholy, exciting, magical, just like the early deceased poet’s words, interpreted by Christina Zurbrügg with wonderful intuition. And the musicians are really brilliant… (Wiener Zeitung)

The music shouts and sobs … It is as heterogeneous as its interpreters: Flamenco, chanson, driving jazz, mixed with folk tunes. The music sobs, shouts, creates powerful archaic pictures, and leads the listener into the turmoil of a fiesta. And nevertheless it remains dignified – just like Christina Zurbrügg… (NZ)

... a mélange of Paco de Lucía, Sade, Salsa und Latin American atmosphere. (Die Alternative)

… from chanson to flamenco and jazz ... with wonderful rhythmic arrangements. (Concerto)

Spanish Jazz ... with a combo that masters flamenco just as
well as Brasilian sounds … And above it the clear voice of Christina Zurbrügg, exploring Lorca’s lyrical words with deep sensitivity for fragile moments … easiness and depth together, without theatricality. (Rhythm blue)

Not only for rainy summer days! (Salzburger Nachrichten)

1992: "Sunset" – CD
For the 500th anniversary of America’s indigenous cultures

Beautiful interpretations, soft and melancholy, reminding us of things forever lost, wantonly destroyed, and of hope extinguished. A violent process that still is omnipresent…(Plattentips)

Criticism and protest do not compete for attention; soft poetical laments, gradually arranged in subtle overtones only disclosing themselves to those willing to listen. (Salto)

"Sunset" is not a rabble-rousing accusation – rather a program reporting the causes and consequences of a conquest … efficiently shrillness is contrasted with beauty, sensitively the traces of oppressed cultures are made heard in the cultural heritage of the oppressors. (Alternative)

Christina Zurbrügg‘s successful vocal realization is quite impressive – a dignified musical homage. (Concerto)

1991: "As 55 years go by" – Live program
A musical biography about life and death of F.G. Lorca

Christina Zurbrügg and her musicians’ team create an almost magical atmosphere; blazing, yearning, suiting Lorca’s work … A grand evening… (Wiener Zeitung)

Modern Troubadours ... The musicians of Café de Chinitas not only perform Spanish music with power and perfection, but interpret and extend it into jazz and free jazz … from archaic folk tunes to ravishing improvisations … from oriental roots to program music … with the Swiss singer and composer Christina Zurbrügg … (AZ)

... a new rhythm fitting Christina Zurbrügg‘s passionate singing (Krone)

1991:"Startled" with the Orchestra Rudi Fuchs – CD and live program
Based on the chanson-program: «It was much later on that I did learn to speak»
with the Orchestra Rudi Fuchs – featuring Otto Lechner.
Lyrics by Martin Auer and Christina Zurbrügg

A singular chanson-evening … but this evening means much more: Touch, atmosphere and fascination. Owing to the sensitive performance of Christina Zurbrügg, full of different nuances … a quite singular mixture of words and music, an iridescent up and down between tragedy and comedy, between tenderness and scurrility. (Wiener Zeitung)

Sensitive miniatures ... She provides the miniatures of ordinary feelings with a multilayered structure, an unobtrusive performance, striking with its soft sounds ... (Kurier)

The voice of Christina Zurbrügg and the excellent musical performance by her musicians make their contribution. A jewel of cabaret. (Concerto)

Assonances in lieu of accusations … Christina Zurbrügg sings chansons – and how! … Christina Zurbrügg, who sings these songs in a plain, almost sober way, aims her interpretation mostly at the emotions of her audience. (AZ)

She is plating gutter lyrics with the gold leaves of her singing ... (Standard)

1990: “A back-basket full of kids, a snotty old husband” – MC
Folksongs of a woman’s life

... a critical, sly and melancholy musical social history of women’s everyday life. Diverse love-, marriage-, mocking-, erotic-songs and lullabies carefully selected and sensitively interpreted by Christina Zurbrügg und Martin Auer... (Brigitte)

... not only a profound tuneful pleasure for the listener, but also a varied view of bygone female life – ordinary and extraordinary. (Wiener Zeitung).

... their relaxed, sometimes eye-twinkling way … easy handling … Christina Zurbrügg und Martin Auer ... prove themselves to be interpreters familiar with any local timbre between the Bretagne and Macedonia, between the Tyrolean Pitztal and Ireland … The fact that men are allowed to enjoy this account too distinguishes this collection among others. (Süddeutsche Nr. 229)

1990: Café de Chinitas: Spanish songs from the folksong-collection of F. G. Lorca –
CD and live program

A clear, dark woman’s voice leads us into the scintillating scenes of these songs, accompanying a whole people from the cradle to death in the bull fight arena. Unobtrusively, with erotic timbre, she paints pictures of passion, blood and tears. (Krone)

A magical evening that sketches a small world without any tittle-tattle or Spanish mannerism.
(Emmi Werner, Director of the Volkstheater)

Without loud sounds, without fake folklore: the real Spain evolves inside the heart. (Volksstimme)

This “Café de Chinitas“ herewith is awarded all possible stars and chef caps. (AZ)