Weill/Brecht - Die Sieben Todsunden | Brilliant Classics 95126

Weill/Brecht - Die Sieben Todsunden

Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 95126

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 13th November 2015

Contents

Works

Weill, Kurt

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)
» Havanna song
» Wie man sich bettet, so liegt man
Das Berliner Requiem
» Vom ertrunkenen Madchen
» Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)
» Ballad of sexual dependency
» Barbara Song
» Die Seerauber-Jenny (Pirate Jenny)
Die sieben Todsunden (The Seven Deadly Sins)
Happy End
» Ballade von der Hollen-Lili
» Bilbao Song
» Surabaya Johnny
» Was die Herren Matrosen sagen

Artists

Gisela May (soprano)
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig

Conductor

Herbert Kegel

Works

Weill, Kurt

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)
» Havanna song
» Wie man sich bettet, so liegt man
Das Berliner Requiem
» Vom ertrunkenen Madchen
» Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)
» Ballad of sexual dependency
» Barbara Song
» Die Seerauber-Jenny (Pirate Jenny)
Die sieben Todsunden (The Seven Deadly Sins)
Happy End
» Ballade von der Hollen-Lili
» Bilbao Song
» Surabaya Johnny
» Was die Herren Matrosen sagen

Artists

Gisela May (soprano)
Peter Schreier (tenor)
Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig

Conductor

Herbert Kegel

About

Kurt Weill wrote 'Die Sieben Todsünden' in Paris (in exile) as a commission from a French ballet group. It is a 'Ballet chanté' (a 'sung ballet') for singers, dance group and orchestra. Weill and his librettist Bertolt Brecht present a satire of the pretty bourgeois morals, and turn the 7 deadly sins into virtues.
 
This recording from 1966 is a classic, and of the most authentic performances, starring the great Gisela May, grande dame of the German protest song. She is superbly seconded by Peter Schreier and the Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig conducted by Herbert Kegel, unsurpassed in this repertoire.
 
Also on this fascinating disc: songs from Berliner Requiem, Happy End, Mahagonny and Dreigroschenoper.

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