Weill: The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny / Latham-Konig, Silja, Schlemm, Neumann
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Composer: Kurt WeillConductor: Kurt Weill
Orchestra: Cologne Radio Orchestra
Performer: Cologne Radio Orchestra
Performer: Anja Silja
Performer: Anny Schlemm
Performer: Frederic Mayer
Orchestra: Frederic Mayer
Performer: Hans Franzen
Performer: Klaus Hirte
Performer: Paul Wolfrum
Performer: Thomas Lehrberger
Performer: Wolfgang Neumann
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-12-23
Music Label: Capriccio
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 1: No. 1: Halloh, wir mussen weiter
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 1: No. 2: Alabama Song
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 1: No. 3: Wir wohnen in den Stadten
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 1: No. 4: Auf nach Mahagonny
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 1: No. 5: Wenn man an einen fremden Strand kommt
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 1: No. 6: Ich habe gelernt, wenn ich einen Mann kennenlerne
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 1: No. 7: Fatty und Moses!
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 1: No. 8: Jimmy, warum laufst du denn fort?
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 1: No. 9: Das ist die ewige Kunst
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 1: No. 10: O furchtbares Ereignis
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 1: No. 11: Haltet euch aufrecht!
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act 2: No. 12: Hurrikan bewegt sich mit 120 Stundenmeilen auf Atsena zu
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act II: No. 13: Erstens, vergesst nict, kommt das Fressen
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act II: No. 14: Zweitens kommt der Liebsakt!
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act II: No. 15: Wir, meine Herren, veranstalten hier ein grosses Preisboxen
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act II: No. 16: Freunde, ich lade euch ein
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act III: No. 17: Wenn der Himmel hell wird
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act III: No. 18: Haben alle Zuschauer Billette
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act III: There is no money in this land
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act III: No. 19: Grusse! Siehst du nicht, dass du gegrusst wirst?
- The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny: Act III: No. 20: An einem grauen Vormittag
Music reviews of Weill: The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny / Latham-Konig, Silja, Schlemm, Neumann
Music Review: A Rich and Satisfying Recording
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a superb recording. A rich, wry, and appropriately depressing piece of work. The sound quality is excellent. There's a spare simplicity to the performances. They aren't just singing the music, they're performing a piece of music-theatre.
I can't comment on the tempi because I'm only just becoming a Weil-ophile. However, I know a thing or two about Brecht and this performance has the restraint, intelligence, balls, and humor that seems very much in keeping with the early-career Bertold Brecht.
Briefly, Mahagonny is a sort of companion-piece to Three Penny Opera. Instead of spinning out a fantastical vision of England, in this work Brecht and Weill imagine the construction of a Western boomtown designed to cater to the needs of greedy prospectors in the American west. There's little romance to be had here. This is a piece of theatre that attempts to expose capitalism as a craven thing that creates a city built on whores, booze, and money. Gee, could this be commentary on Germany in the 1920's? One of the many delights is how fancifully the authors incorporate bits and pieces of Americana -- for example, wonderfully incongruous references to hurricanes and the "moon of Alabamy" in a town somewhere south of the Alaska gold mines. In my view, this is one of the most inventive and rich works of art to come out of the 20th century.
(The booklet accompanying this set is particularly nice with the complete libretto: German and English side-by-side, a nice bit of prose that places the work in context, and period photos.
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