STREET SCENE

Kurt Weill regarded this work highly, predicting it would be remembered as his masterpiece. It is a difficult work to peg; is it opera with

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Weill Winds

Kurt Weill’s 1924 Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra was his last concert work before his success with The Protagonist turned him irrevocably toward the

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Weill Burgschaft

It’s amazing that we’ve had to wait this long for a recording of Kurt Weill’s operatic masterpiece Die Bürgschaft (The Covenant). Anyone who enjoys The

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LADY IN THE DARK

Kurt Weill fled Germany to escape the Nazis and was embraced by the American music community for a while, but around 1940 his career started

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Weill Atherton/DG

Kurt Weill’s collaborations with Bertolt Brecht in the late 1920s and early ’30s captured the angst, despair, and decadence of post-Weimar Germany with determined zest

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