SACD, Weill, K (composer)
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New. Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! Kabarett und Exil
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Salon Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, Adam Benzwi
Otter, now 71, is as ever the consummate artist, although her range is naturally narrower these days. That doesn’t prevent her bringing a deep understanding to these texts even as she negotiates... —
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Special offer. Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Wallis Giunta (mezzo-soprano), Jennifer France (soprano), Katarina Andreasson (violin), Benjamin Herzl, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Hk Gruber
[Giunta] does amazingly well to make the translation (WH Auden and Chester Kallman) both audible and engaging. —
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Special offer. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Andrew Staples, Alessandro Fisher (tenors), Ross Ramgobin (baritone), Florian Boesch (bass-baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
It’s a lyric Anna who takes to the road for seven years prey to seven deadly sins, though there’s an exciting lurch into that broken tone that was Lenya’s vocal calling card when we reach Envy.... —
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The SCO brings out the bittersweet melodies in the first movement [of the Fantaisie Symphonique] and displays restraint in the expansive Largo...Excerpts [from Der Silbersee] are featured here,... —
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Calefax & Cora Burggraaf – The Roaring Twenties
Cora Burggraaf (mezzo-soprano)
Calefax (reed quintet)
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Weill: The Threepenny Opera
Original Cast Recording 1976
Jonathan Peachum (C K Alexander), Samuel (Peachum’s Assistant) (Tony Azito), The Ballad Singer (Roy Brocksmith), Lucy Brown (Blair Brown), Matt (Ralph Drischell), Jake (William Duell), Jenny Towler (Ellen Greene), Walt (Max Gulack), Mac the Knife (Raul Julia), Polly Peachum (Caroline Kava), Smith...
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…Ullmann has been imprisoned in the 'model' concentration camp at Terezín where he set three Poems by Hölderlin to music in 1944. …the shining clarity of Oelze's voice never fails to prickle... —
