Weill: Propheten, Whitman Songs / Hampson, Davies

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June 2, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Kurt Weill
    • PERFORMER
      Albert Dohmen, Kurt Azesberger, Michael Papst, Thomas Hampson, Gottfried Hornik, Bernd Frohlich, Urs
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Hatikvah: Prelude

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    2. Prologue: House of Prayer: Es ist dunkel im Bethaus (Narrator, Rabbi, The Thirteen-Year-Old, The Estranged One)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Anselm Lipgens, Kurt Azesberger, Georg Tsulufis, Karl Richter

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    3. Prophecies: Wächter! Wie weit in der Nacht schon? (Jesajah, Narrator, Jeremias)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Michael Pabst, Anselm Lipgens, Albert Dohmen

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    4. Vanities: Im Eingang der Höhle sitzt der Widersprecher (Narrator, Rabbi, The Adversary, A Boy, Children's Chorus)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Vienna Youth Choir, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Children's Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Anselm Lipgens, Kurt Azesberger, Gottfried Hornik, Wolfgang Schneider

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    5. Vanities: Warum hast du meines Mundes dich bemächtigt (Jeremias, The Adversary, Narrator, Chorus)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Vienna Motet Choir, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Children's Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Albert Dohmen, Gottfried Hornik, Anselm Lipgens

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    6. Vanities: Chananjah, der falsche Prophet (Narrator, Chananjah, A Woman)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Ursula Fiedler

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    7. Conflict and Victory: Im selben Jahre (Rabbi, Narrator, Chananjah, Jeremias)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Kurt Azesberger, Anselm Lipgens, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Albert Dohmen

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    8. Conflict and Victory: Schlagt ihn zu Boden, den Lügenverkünder! (The Adversary, Narrator, The Thirteen-Year-Old, Rabbi, Chorus)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Vienna Youth Choir, Vienna Motet Choir, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Children's Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Gottfried Hornik, Anselm Lipgens, Georg Tsulufis, Kurt Azesberger

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    9. Conflict and Victory: Im neunten Jahre Zedekiahs (Rabbi, Narrator, Chananjah, Pashur, Chorus)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Vienna Youth Choir, Vienna Motet Choir, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Children's Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Kurt Azesberger, Anselm Lipgens, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Johann Leutgeb

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    10. Conflict and Victory: Jähe Stille. Der Palastsaal wird hell (Narrator, Zedekiah, Ebed Melech, Jeremias)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Anselm Lipgens, Rainer Frieb, Christian Horvath, Albert Dohmen

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    11. The Choice: Der Herr allein kann sein Haus vernichten (The Dark Angel, White Angels, Zedekiah, Jeremias)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Josef Wagner, Michael Pabst, Sang-Kyu Lee, Rainer Frieb, Albert Dohmen

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    12. The Choice: Zwei murrende Volkshaufen drängen sich (Narrator, The Adversary, Pashur, Chananjah, Zedekiah, Jeremias, Angels, Rabbi, Chorus)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Vienna Youth Choir, Vienna Motet Choir, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Children's Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Anselm Lipgens, Gottfried Hornik, Johann Leutgeb, Bernd Oliver Fröhlich, Rainer Frieb, Albert Dohmen, Michael Pabst, Sang-Kyu Lee, Josef Wagner, Kurt Azesberger

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    13. The Choice: O König der Welt, du hörtest mein Leid (Rahel, The Thirteen-Year-Old)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Ursula Fiedler, Georg Tsulufis

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    14. The Answer: Ihr Schläfer des Schmerzes (Angel of the End of Time, Narrator, The Thirteen-Year-Old, Messenger)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Michael Pabst, Anselm Lipgens, Georg Tsulufis

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    15. The Builders: Interlude

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    16. A Vision of Temples: Die Stimme Salomos - Nun senke dich, Herr, in der Wolke herab! (Narrator, The Voice of Salomon, Rabbi, Chorus)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Vienna Youth Choir, Vienna Motet Choir, Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Children's Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Anselm Lipgens, Albert Dohmen, Kurt Azesberger

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    17. Epilogue: In the House of Prayer: Schläge und Donnern gegen die Tür des Bethauses (Narrator, The Watchman, The Thirteen-Year-Old, Rabbi)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Anselm Lipgens, Georg Tsulufis, Kurt Azesberger

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    18. No. 1. Beat! Beat! Drums!

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    19. No. 2. O Captain! My Captain!

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    20. 4 Walt Whitman Songs: No. 3. Come Up from the Fields, Father (arr. C. Surinach for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

    21. 4 Walt Whitman Songs: No. 4. Dirge for Two Veterans (arr. K. Weill and I. Schlein for voice and orchestra)

      Composer: Kurt Weill

      Ensemble: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies


The score of The Prophets, intended as the last act of The Eternal Road, was the last that Kurt Weill composed in Europe and his last extensive setting in German, before he personally and professionally adopted the language of his new home, America. Musically, he drew on all his previous great works, from Mahagonny and the Seven Deadly Sins to his Second Symphony. At the same time, he foreshadowed some of his soon-to-be-written works for Broadway.

In 1998 David Drew devised the concert adaptation of this act, of which this is the premiere’s recording. The Four Walt Whitman Songs, meanwhile, were a product of the war years and reveal Weill at his most touchingly American, fusing American theater song with the German Lied, Berlin with Brooklyn.