Weill: A Portrait

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Label
Sterling Records
Release Date
May 5, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      WEILL, KURT
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Lars-Olof Norees Trio
    • PERFORMER
      Mossberg, Nyberg, Hultenberger, Agback, Hedlund, Karlqvist, Bergner, Larsson
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 05, 2017
    • UPC
      7393338182023
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CDA1820
    • LABEL
      Sterling Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Act II: Ballade vom angenehmen Leben (Ballade of Good Living): Ihr Herrn, urteilt jetzt selbst

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Curt Hedlund

    2. Act II: Ballade von der sexuellen Horigkeit (Ballad of Sexual Obsession): Da ist nun einer schon der Satan selber

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Anders Karlqvist

    3. Act II: Zuhalterballade

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Kia Nyberg, Anders Karlqvist

    4. Act I: Meine Herren, heut sehn Sie mich Glaser abwaschen, "Seerauber-Jenny" (Pirate Jenny)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Kia Nyberg, Anders Karlqvist

    5. Act III: Lied von der Unzulanglichkeit menschlichen Strebens (Song of the Insufficiency of Human Endeavour): Der Mensch lebt durch den Kopf

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Curt Hedlund

    6. Act II: Ballade uber die Frage, "Wovon lebt der Mensch"

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Karin Hultenberger, Curt Hedlund, Jan Bergnér

    7. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: Alabama Song

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Curt Hedlund

    8. Happy End: Bilbao-Song

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Curt Hedlund

    9. Das Berliner Requiem: Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Curt Hedlund

    10. Konjunktur: Die Muschel von Margate (Petroleum Song)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Curt Hedlund

    11. Je ne t'aime pas

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Anders Karlqvist

    12. Complainte de la Seine

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Anders Karlqvist

    13. The Eternal Road: Song of Ruth

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Stina Hellberg Agback

    14. It never was you

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Kia Nyberg, Anders Karlqvist, Hasse Larsson

    15. September Song

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Anders Karlqvist, Hasse Larsson

    16. My Ship

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Stina Hellberg Agback

    17. This is New

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Lars-Olof Norées Trio

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg

    18. Foolish Heart

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Anders Karlqvist, Hasse Larsson

    19. Speak Low

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Lars-Olof Norées Trio

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg

    20. Street Scene: Lonely House

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Curt Hedlund

    21. Love Life: Here I'll Stay

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Lars-Olof Norées Trio

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg

    22. Act I: Little Gray House: It'a a little gray house

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Stina Hellberg Agback

    23. Act I: Thousands Of Miles: There is a great gulf between people

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Curt Hedlund, Jan Bergnér

    24. Act II: Stay Well: If I tell truth to you, my love, my own

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Curt Hedlund, Jan Bergnér

    25. Act I: Lost in the Stars

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Stina Hellberg Agback

    26. Huckleberry Finn: No. 3. Apple Jack

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Performer: Torsten Mossberg, Curt Hedlund, Jan Bergnér


Kurt Weill was a completely groundbreaking composer in that he, along with Bertolt Brecht developed the characteristic cabaret style (Song) inspired by the American jazz music, minstrel shows and vaudeville with influences from Jewish klezmer music. Tango often played a major role, even in his operas. Often Weill sought after a Verfremdungseffekt, by using odd chords for the key, achieving a kind of desolation and unpleasant feeling. In the 1920s, his songs often sung by an actor. The performance was often characterized as Sprechgesang, recitative, helping the message to carry over the ramp. Lotte Lenya, Kurt Weill's wife, was a very successful actress with strong charisma but with an almost unlovely voice. She came to survive her husband by over 30 years and was his best ambassador. When Weill came to Paris he changed his style. The songs then had a softer image. When he later came to New York he toned down some of the characteristic cabaret style in favor of a more Broadway-customed style. Nevertheless, there remain elements of Hebrew flavour and typical Weill touches in these songs. Many of these are now considered to belong to The American Songbook. On this recording we have strived to portray the musical development of Kurt Weill, from Berlin to Broadway, from 1928 to 1950, and have selected songs that are characteristic for each period.