
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
David Atherton made a fine reputation for himself as a contemporary music conductor back in his salad days with the London Sinfonietta, nowhere more so
A new Jan Vogler recording is always worth checking out. He’s been going through all the major cello (chamber) repertoire on Berlin Classics, and this
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
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
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
The musical fragments featured on this CD resulted from projects Kurt Weill undertook between 1934 and 1937, the time he left France and settled in
No matter how stylishly a classical artist may sing pop or musical theater songs, every sustained note is invariably served up with the same, patented
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