Weill: The Threepenny Opera

Weill: The Threepenny Opera

Weill: The Threepenny Opera
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Composer: Kurt Weill
Conductor: John Mauceri
Orchestra: RIAS Berlin Sinfonietta
Performer: Ute Lemper
Performer: Rene Kollo
Performer: Milva
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1990-01-05
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
  1. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Ouvertüre (Overture)
  2. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Moritat von Mackie Messer (The Ballad of Mac the Knife)
  3. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Morgenchoral des Peachum (Peachum's Morning Hymn)
  4. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Anstatt-daÃ?-Song (The 'No they can't' Song)
  5. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Hochzeitslied (Wedding Song)
  6. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Seer�¤uber - Jenny (Pirate Jenny)
  7. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Kanonen-Song (The Cannon Song)
  8. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Liebeslied (Love Song)
  9. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Barbara-Song
  10. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Dialog (Dialogue)
  11. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Erstes Dreigroschen-Finale (First Threepenny Finale)
  12. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Melodram
  13. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Pollys Lied (Polly's Song)
  14. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Ballade von der sexuellen Hörigkeit (The Balld of Sexual Obsession)
  15. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Zuhälter-Ballade (Ballad of Immoral Earnings)
  16. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Insert: Seeräuber-Jenny (Pirate Jenny)
  17. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Ballade vom angenehmen Leben (Ballad of Good Living)
  18. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Eifersuchts-Duett (Jealousy Duet)
  19. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Arie der Lucy (Lucy's Aria)
  20. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Dialog (Dialogue)
  21. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Zweites Dreigroschen-Finale (Second Threepenny Finale)
  22. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 3. Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens (Song of the insuffici
  23. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 3. Salomon-Song (Solomon Song)
  24. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 3. Ruf aus der Gruft (Call from the Grave)
  25. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 3. Grabschrift (Epitaph)
  26. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 3. Gang zum Galgen (Procession to the Gallows)
  27. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 3. Drittes Dreigroschen-Finale (Third Threepenny Finale)

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The son of a cantor, Kurt Weill was one of the 20th-century lyric stage's great innovative geniuses. With Die Dreigroschenoper, he and collaborator Bertolt Brecht (and Brecht's often unacknowledged partner Elisabeth Hauptmann) created a cultural landmark that is still the most resonant emblem of the heady days of the Weimar Republic. Although Brecht has usually taken the limelight for his acerbic social satire of bourgeois complacency--adapting the 18th-century John Gay's original Threepenny Opera, itself a parody of operatic conventions--Weill's sly amalgam of jazz, cabaret, and art song idioms vividly colors the work as one unforgettable number follows the next. While Brückner-Rüggeberg's 1958 recording has long held pride of place due to the authority of Lotte Lenya--Weill's original Jenny and lifelong muse--this 1990 release is a strong competitor and perhaps an even better introduction to the work. John Mauceri, a passionate advocate of Weill's less well-known works for the Broadway stage, achieves a tight sense of ensemble from the composer's iconoclastic scoring and gives the abrupt transitions of the piece a highly effective, jagged-edged quality. The spoken part of the text is drastically cut, and on the issue of which musical direction to pursue--operatic technique or cabaret campiness--this version sensibly recognizes the diversity of authentic Weill performing styles, making room in its cast for the classically trained Helga Dernesch and René Kollo as well as Ute Lemper's cabaret smarts. The result is engrossing and gives the spotlight to Threepenny Opera's subversive blend of irony and humor. --Thomas May

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