Seven Deadly Sins

Kurt Weill - Seven Deadly Sins & Mahagonny Songspiel - Ute Lemper (1990) {Decca London 430 168-2}
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© 1990 Decca London | 430 168-2
Classical / Early 20th Century / Vocal Music / Ballet Chanté

Ute Lemper at the late eighties, made a marvelous, dazzling idiomatic and if you may, historical collaboration with John Mauceri at the front of the RIAS BERLIN SINFONIETTA, remarking with major possible fidelity, the anger, hopeless, depravation and existential bitterness of Weimar Republic.

Kurt Weill - The Seven Deadly Sins
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Dennis Russell Davies / Marianne Faithfull
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Label/Cat#: RCA Victor # 74321 601192 | Country/Year: Europe 1998
Genre: Classical | Style: Vocal, Early 20th Century

…Marianne has spent her life researching this work. She displays that rare intelligence that allows all "misfortunes" to be converted to her benefit. There is a detachment that allows one to be intimately involved with, but not consumed by this type of work. This is her best work in quite some time. She deserves all the accolades that come her way as a serious singer who can pull off the piece. A wonderful disc from one whose live presence we must count as miraculous considering what she has lived through.

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.

"Rejoining forces after many years of silence, German dark metal frontrunners AGATHODAIMON set the stage for their long-awaited comeback – the bittersweet seventh studio album, The Seven, out March 18, 2022 via Napalm Records. As suggested by the album’s title, The Seven is thematically centred around the number seven and the seven deadly sins – sloth, greed, lust, gluttony, pride, wrath, envy. he Seven marks Agathodaimon’s first album in nine years, Sathonys temporarily placing the band on hold in 2014 due to private circumstances. As referenced, The Seven was produced by Kristian ‘Kohle’ Kohlmannslehner. Former Agathodaimon vocalist Vlad Dracul guests on the track ‘Mother Of All Gods’, marking his first appearance with the band since 1999. Benighted frontman Julien Truchan guests on the song ‘Kyrie / Gloria’, meanwhile.

Welcome to the bewitching world of Circus Dinogad in which Welsh contralto Hilary Summers, the Dutch theorbo & bass clarinet duo Mike Fentross & Maarten Ornstein and the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam converge in a fusion of musical traditions.

Between 1980 and 1998 Simon Rattle conducted no less than 934 concerts with the CBSO. Together they performed works by many 20th-century composers, as well as established favourites, and gave a total of 16 world premieres. Rattle also made 69 recordings for EMI with the orchestra. This box brings together that recorded legacy, which includes pieces by composers pivotal to his work, such as Mahler, Sibelius and Szymanowski, as well as some of the new compositions he championed — Nicholas Maw’s Odyssy, Mark Anthony Turnage’s Momentum, Three Screaming Popes and Drowned Out, and Thomas Adès’ Asyla.