Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 2; The Seven Deadly Sins; Songs

Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 2; The Seven Deadly Sins; Songs

Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 2; The Seven Deadly Sins; Songs
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Performer: Michael Rippon
Performer: Thomas Hampson
Composer: Kurt Weill
Conductor: Mariss Jansons
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Conductor: Dominic Muldowney
Conductor: John McGlinn
Performer: Robyn Archer
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta
Performer: Elise Ross
Performer: Ian Caley
Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-10-20
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. First movement: Sostenuto:- Symphony No. 2 (1933)
  2. Allegro molto:- Symphony No. 2 (1933)
  3. Second movement: Largo:- Symphony No. 2 (1933)
  4. Third movement: Allegro vivace:- Symphony No. 2 (1933)
  5. First movement: Andante con moto:- Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra Op. 12 (1924)
  6. Second movement: - NOTTURNO Allegro un poco tenuto:- Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra Op. 12 (1924)
  7. CADENZA Moderato:- Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra Op. 12 (1924)
  8. SERENATA Allegretto:- Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra Op. 12 (1924)
  9. Third movement: Allegro molto, un poco agitato:- Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra Op. 12 (1924)
  10. No. 1 Allegro giusto:- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - Suite aus der oper
  11. No. 2 Moderato assai:- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - Suite aus der oper
  12. No. 3:- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - Suite aus der oper
  13. No. 4 Lento:- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - Suite aus der oper
  14. No. 5 Molto vivace:- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - Suite aus der oper
  15. No. 6:- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - Suite aus der oper
  16. No. 7 Largo:- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - Suite aus der oper
Music CD 2
  1. Introduction: Meine Schwester und ich stammen aus Louisiana:- Die Sieben Todsünden, '(The) Seven Deadly Sins'
  2. Faulheit (Sloth): Müssiggang ist aller Laster Anfang:- Die Sieben Todsünden, '(The) Seven Deadly Sins'
  3. Stolz (Pride): Als wir aber ausgestattet waren:- Die Sieben Todsünden, '(The) Seven Deadly Sins'
  4. Zorn (Anger): Das geht nicht vorwärts:- Die Sieben Todsünden, '(The) Seven Deadly Sins'
  5. Völlerei (Gluttony): Das ist ein Brief aus Philadelphia:- Die Sieben Todsünden, '(The) Seven Deadly Sins'
  6. Unzucht (Lechery): Und wir fanden einen Mann:- Die Sieben Todsünden, '(The) Seven Deadly Sins'
  7. Habsucht (Avarice): Wie hier in der Zeitung steht:- Die Sieben Todsünden, '(The) Seven Deadly Sins'
  8. Neid (Envy): Und die letzte Stadt:- Die Sieben Todsünden, '(The) Seven Deadly Sins'
  9. Finaletto: Darauf kehrten wir zurück nach Louisiana:- Die Sieben Todsünden, '(The) Seven Deadly Sins'
  10. Ballad Of Mack The Knife
  11. Cannon Song
  12. Barbara Song
  13. Polly's Song
  14. The Ballad of Sexual Obsession (with orchestra):- The Threepenny Opera (in English) (1981 Digital Remaster)
  15. Second Threepenny Finale
  16. Solomon Song (with harmonium):- The Threepenny Opera (in English) (1981 Digital Remaster)
  17. Alabama Song (from Mahagonny) (1986 Digital Remaster)
  18. Epitaph 1919 (1981 Digital Remaster)
  19. Song of Surabaya Johnny (after Kipling):- Happy End (1981 Digital Remaster)
  20. Bilbao Song
  21. Johnny's Song: 'When man was first created':- Johnny Johnson
  22. This is the life from Love Life

Music reviews of Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 2; The Seven Deadly Sins; Songs

Music Review: Weill's little-known instrumental works, performed to perfection
Rating: 5 Stars

I finally picked up Kurt Weill's famous Threepenny Opera (1988 recording with Ute Lemper & the RIAS Berlin) a couple of years ago as I started to seriously investigate 20th century German classical music. Weill's collaboration with Bertolt Brecht, who by now is widely considered the greatest playwright of the 20th century, was a smash hit in Berlin in 1928, and at least two Weill-Brecht songs became widely known in the U.S. -- "Mac the Knife" from "The Threepenny Opera," recorded by Frank Sinatra and Jimmie Dale Gilmore among dozens of others, and "Alabama Song" from "Mahagonny-Songspiel" (1927), which I and countless others first heard sung by the Doors. Weill was Jewish and a leftist, a member of the November Group (of radical artists) in the 1920s Weimar Republic, and so he fled Germany in 1933, staying in Paris briefly before settling in the U.S. where he had a successful career writing Broadway musicals before he died of a heart attack just after his 50th birthday in 1950.

Weill was trained as a classical composer, and produced a small body of instrumental work, mainly before his success with opera and musicals. The first disc on this 2-disc EMI Gemini collection is all instrumental Weill, performed to perfection by the Berlin Philharmonic led by Mariss Jansons (this is a reissue of the original 1998 disc). The "Symphony No. 2" (27'10 -- 1934) in four movements leads off, followed by the "Concerto for violin and wind orchestra" (26'07 -- 1924) from ten years earlier, played magnificently by Frank Peter Zimmerman, and finally comes the "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Suite" (17'15 -- 1930), with several quite hummable tunes including "Alabama Song."

Weill wrote two symphonies, the first an early one-movement expressionist piece. He wrote the "Symphony No. 2" in Paris in 1934, and it was his last instrumental composition. It is a very strong work, conveying the Weimar mood with the Left facing off against the Right (sorry Glenn Beck, it was the RIGHT WING that took power in 1933!), using the four-movement symphonic form to clearly communicate with the working class public. The earlier violin concerto is a great showpiece for Zimmerman, and it uses an unusual wind orchestra with no strings. Also of its time, it combines a Second Vienna School influence with the newest neoclassical influence of Stravinsky. Based on these two works, it is clear that Weill could have had a successful career pursuing these classical forms, but he followed his success and moved toward songwriting for staged dramas. The "Mahagonny Suite" is great, from the expanded work of 1930, again played to the hilt by the Berlin Philharmonic. I have to think that this recording session brought out the best in all concerned, Berlin's premiere orchestra bringing to light rarely heard works from Weimar-era Berlin.

I actually came across this disc while searching for a performance of "Die Sieben Todsunden" (The Seven Deadly Sins), Weill's 1933 "sung ballet" with Brecht. But it is the first disc of instrumental works that is the real find for me. The second disc of vocal works is competently performed, but I don't find "Die Sieben Todsunden" to be very compelling -- the best parts, despite Elise Ross's fine soprano singing, are the orchestral writing, performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra led by Simon Rattle -- and the excerpts from "The Threepenny Opera," performed by the London Sinfonietta, are not contenders for best performance. There are no English translations of the "7 Deadly Sins" libretto, and when it's Bertolt Brecht you want the words! I tracked it down on the web, but was underwhelmed. It's a satire aimed at the petit bourgoisie, and the twist is that Anna only does wrong when she does *not* commit the sin. For instance, her "pride" consists in not wanting to work in a strip club, and her "anger" is righteous anger against the mistreatment of a fellow worker. So not Weill and Brecht's finest hour.

But the instrumental disc is fantastic, and well worth hearing, especially at the price! My five star rating is on the strength of that session.

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