Kurt Weill - Symphonies nos.1 & 2 – Marin Alsop

Kurt Weill (1900-1950):
Symphony no.2
Symphony no.1
Lady in the dark - symphonic nocturne

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop - conductor

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Kurt Weill – Berliner Requiem – Philippe Herreweghe

Kurt Weill (1900-1950):
Vom Tod im Wald, op.23 - Cantata for bass and ten wind instruments
Concerto for Violin and Wind Band
Das Berliner Requiem

Alexander Laiter - tenor
Peter Kooy - bass
Elisabeth Glab - violin
Chœur de La Chapelle Royale
Ensemble Musique Oblique
Philippe Herreweghe - conductor

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Kurt Weill – Symphony No.2, Violin Concerto, Suite from 'Mahagonny' – Mariss Jansons

Kurt Weill (1900-1950):
Symphony No.2
Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra
Suite from the Opera "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny"

Frank Peter Zimmermann - violin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Mariss Jansons - conductor

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Entartete Musik (Vol.25) – Korngold, Weill, Krenek – Violin Concertos

Entartete Musik

["Entartete Musik" or "degenerate music" consists of works by composers surpressed or displaced during the political troubles of the 1930s-40s.]

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957):
Violin Concerto in D major, op.35
Kurt Weill (1900-1950):
Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, op.12
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991):
Violin Concerto No.1, op.29

Chantal Juillet - violin
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
John Mauceri - conductor

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Kurt Weill - Die Dreigroschenoper – Mauceri

remembering Bertold Brecht on his birthday

(10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956)

Brecht was a German dramatist who wrote with Kurt Weill, within others, "Die Dreigroschenoper"

Kurt Weill (1900-1950):
Die Dreigroschenoper

with:
René Kollo
Mario Adorf
Helga Dernesch
Ute Lemper
Milva
Wolfgang Reichmann
Susanne Tremper
Rolf Boysen

RIAS Kammerchor
RIAS Berlin Sinfonietta
John Mauceri - conductor

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Ravel, Stravinsky, Weill, de Sabata - Piano and Orchestra - Bollani, Chailly

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937):
Piano Concerto in G major
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971):
Tango (piano version)
Kurt Weill (1900-1950):
Surabaya Johnny (from Happy End)
Tango Ballad (from The Threepenny Opera)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971):
Tango (orchestrated by Felix Guenther)
Victor de Sabata (1892-1967):
Mille e una notte, Suite

Steffano Bollani - piano
Gewndhausorchester
Riccardo Chailly - conductor

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Weill - Kleine Dreigroschenmusik; Violin Concerto; Mahagonny Songspiel

Kurt Weill (1900-1950):
Kleine Dreigroschenmusik - suite for Wind Orchestra from "The Threepenny Opera"
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op.12 *
Mahagonny Songspiel +

Nona Liddell - violin *
Meriel Dickinson - mezzo-soprano +
Mary Thomas - mezzo-soprano +
Philip Langridge - tenor +
Ian Partridge - tenor +
Benjamin Luxon - baritone +
Michael Rippon - bass

The London Sinfonietta
David Atherton - conductor

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