Composer: Kurt Weill
Performer: Serena Wey
Orchestra: Basel Sinfonietta
Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: First Hand
Catalogue: FHR140
Release: 2023
Size: 338 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
The Threepenny Opera
01. Overture
02. Moritat von Mackie Messer [‘ballad of Mack the Knife’]
03. Liebeslied
04. Ballade vom angenehmen Leben [‘ballad of the Easy Life’]
05. Polly’s Lied
06. Kanonen-song
The Seven Deadly Sins
07. Prolog
08. Faulheit [‘sloth’]
09. Stolz [‘pride’]
10. Zorn [‘wrath’]
11. Völlerei [‘gluttony’]
12. Unzucht [‘lust’]
13. Habsucht [‘greed’]
14. Neid [‘envy’]
15. Epilog
Panamanian Suite
16. Introduktion
17. Marche de l’armée panaméenne [‘march of the Panamanian Army’]
18. Tango habañera
19. Tempo di Foxtrot
Knickerbocker Holiday
20. September Song
Happy End
21. Surabaya-johnny
German-born American composer Kurt Weill was a leading composer for the stage in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his fruitful collaborations with poet and playwrite Bertolt Brecht. Their collaborations were hugely successful at the time, and remain popular. In this present recording, the Weill-Brecht collaboration is featured in the classic The Seven Deadly Sins, possibly their most famous composition. Also presented in this release is the rarely heard yet charming Suite panameenne along with the ever popular orchestral suite from The Threepenny Opera.
This live concert recording, made in 1991 and 1993, was only ever released locally in Basel for a short period after the recording.