The Threepenny Opera
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Composer: Kurt WeillOrchestra: Kurt Weill
Performer: Beatrice Arthur
Performer: Charlotte Rae
Performer: George Tyne
Performer: Geraldine Price
Performer: Jo Sullivan
Performer: Lotte Lenya
Performer: Martin Wolfson
Performer: Scott Merrill
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1995-07-14
Music Label: That's Entertainment
Soundtracks:
- Prologue - Gerald H. Price
- Overture - Threepenny Opera Orchestra
- Ballad of Mac the Knife - Gerald H. Price
- Morning Anthem - Martin Wolfson
- Instead-Of-Song - Charlotte Rae, Martin Wolfson
- Army Song - John Astin, , , Paul Dooley, ,
- Wedding Song - John Astin, , , Paul Dooley
- Love Song - Jo Sullivan
- Ballad of Dependency - Charlotte Rae
- World Is Mean - Charlotte Rae, Jo Sullivan, Martin Wolfson
- Melodrama and Polly's Song - Jo Sullivan
- Pirate Jenny - Lotte Lenya
- Tango Ballad - Lotte Lenya,
- Ballad of the Easy Life
- Barbara Song - Bea Arthur
- Jealousy Duet - Bea Arthur, Jo Sullivan
- How to Survive - Charlotte Rae
- Useless Song - Martin Wolfson
- Solomon Song - Lotte Lenya
- Call from the Grave
- Death Message
- Finale: The Mounted Messanger - William Duell
- Ballad of Mac the Knife [*] - Marc Blitzstein, Lotte Lenya
Music reviews of The Threepenny Opera
Music Review: Historical document inexcusably mangled by rogue producer
Rating: 3 Stars
Once again, CD producer Brian Drutman has remastered and reissued an all-time classic theater recording with a carelessness and indifference to spacing the tracks that borders on professional malpractice. There should be at least 5-6 seconds between the end of each song and the beginning of the next. Not so in a Brian Drutman reissue. Mr. Drutman and his engineers (usually Chris Roberts) leave no more than 1-2 seconds from the end of one song to the beginning of the next on this extraordinary recording; sometimes the next track begins instantaneously. What was he thinking? Is this some kind of contemporary pop music DJ sensibility misapplied to an original cast theater recording? Whatever the reason, it is nothing but artistically irresponsible to not allow the listener a moment's pause to absorb such mighty coups de theatre as Lenya's "Pirate Jenny" before racing into the next cue. Vandalism! Fie, fie, fie. It's utterly disgraceful. Drutman and his cronies do much the same on their other Decca reissues of classic original cast recordings, but there they usually insert 3-4 seconds between tracks (not enough) instead of 1-2. This one is their worst. Butchery. Write a letter to Decca, theater lovers. And they price their hackwork at $18.99 no less!
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