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Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht - Die Dreigroschenoper / Songs & Chansons - The Original 1930 Recordings
Marlene Dietrich - Lotte Lenya - Kurt Gerron - Erich Ponto
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Label/Cat#: Teldec # 9031-72025-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1990, 1931
Genre: Classical, Pop | Style: Early 20th Century, Opera, Chanson

…The Threepenny Opera was first performed at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin in 1928. Despite an initially poor reception, it became a great success, playing 400 times in the next two years. The performance was a springboard for one of the best known interpreters of Brecht and Weill's work, Lotte Lenya, who was married to Weill…

Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht - Die Dreigroschenoper / Songs & Chansons - The Original 1930 Recordings
Marlene Dietrich - Lotte Lenya - Kurt Gerron - Erich Ponto
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 127 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Teldec # 9031-72025-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1990, 1931
Genre: Classical, Pop | Style: Early 20th Century, Opera, Chanson

…The Threepenny Opera was first performed at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin in 1928. Despite an initially poor reception, it became a great success, playing 400 times in the next two years. The performance was a springboard for one of the best known interpreters of Brecht and Weill's work, Lotte Lenya, who was married to Weill…

Lovers of the Four Last Songs have come to take good recordings of the set for granted. Jessye Norman's early digital account with Kurt Masur and the Leipzigers is one of the best–powerful, sensuous, and very well recorded. Strauss may have conceived the songs with an ideal voice in mind, but he made a point of asking that Kirsten Flagstad give the first performance of the set. Since then, no comparably endowed soprano, in possession of both the tonal richness and the extraordinary amplitude that were Flagstad's, has recorded the Four Last Songs, save for Norman.

Kurt Weill - Speak Low: Songs & The Seven Deadly Sins - Anne Sofie von Otter (1994) {Deutsche Grammophon 439 894-2}
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© 1994 Deutsche Grammophon | 439 894-2
Classical / Early 20th Century / Vocalize / Vocal Music / Ballet Chanté

Kurt Weill's ballet with songs is one of this century's greatest theatrical works. It has all the wit and melodic appeal of The Threepenny Opera and social conscience of Mahagonny, but more warmth and musical sophistication than either. It's also all over with in about 40 minutes. Some critics believe the piece was intended as a sort of love poem to Weill's wife, Lotte Lenya; given the tenderness of much of the music, it's hard to disagree. Lenya herself recorded the piece in the 1950s (a recording recently reissued by Sony) and this very much newer performance is welcome particularly for Anne Sofie von Otter's highly intelligent and musical way with the text. The other songs, from both Weill's Berlin and Broadway periods, make the perfect filler.