Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins & Berlin Theatre Songs
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Performer: Ernst PoettgenPerformer: Sigmund Roth
Composer: Kurt Weill
Conductor: Roger Bean
Conductor: Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggeberg
Performer: Fritz Gollnitz
Performer: Julius Katona
Performer: Lotte Lenya
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-12-09
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Prologue: Andante sostenuto
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Idleness: Allegro vivace
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride: Allegretto, quasi andantino - Schneller Walzer
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Anger: Molto agitato
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony: Largo
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust: Moderato
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice: Allegro giusto
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Envy: Allegro non troppo - Alla marcia, un poco tenuto
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Epilogue: Andante sostenuto
- The Threepenny Opera: 'Moritat vom Mackie Messer'
- The Threepenny Opera: 'Barbara-Song'
- The Threepenny Opera: 'Seerauberjenny'
- Aufstief und Fall der Stadt mahogany: 'Havanna-Lied'
- Aufstief und Fall der Stadt mahogany: 'Alabama-Song'
- Aufstief und Fall der Stadt mahogany: 'Denn Wie Man Sich Bettet'
- Happy End: 'Bilbao-Song'
- Happy End: 'Surabaya-Johnny'
- Happy End: 'Was die Herren Matrosen sagen'
- Das Berliner Requiem: 'Ballade vom ertrunkenen Madchen'
- Der Silbersee, Ein Wintermarchen: 'Lied der Fennimore'
- Der Silbersee, Ein Wintermarchen: 'Casar Tod'
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Free Music Review: Lenya the Legend
Hit: 5 Stars
I had never heard, or heard of Lotte Lenya until the opening line of "Seven Deadly Sins" on this priceless reissue combined with the "Berlin Theatre Songs." I was dumbstruck, stunned, and realised I was hearing a singer who actually becomes the character. Song after song--tragedy, irony, gayety, cruelty--delivered with a voice that shudders, groans, or slides as if from experience. And living in 1920's Berlin, much of it likely WAS experience.
Teresa Stratas and Ute Lemper give interesting, sometimes evocative renditions of this music. And Gisela May is a melodramatic mimic of Lenya--devoid of character. Hearing Gisela after Lenya is almost offensive.
BUT, Lenya! To the person who hears Lenya here for the first time: brace yourself! She is a phenomenon.
Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins & Berlin Theatre Songs Poster
Whether playing Anna in The Seven Deadly Sins or singing "Moritat vom Mackie Messer" ("Mack the Knife"), Lotte Lenya helped define the music of her husband, Kurt Weill. The duo literally created the soundtrack for the prewar Berlin of our fantasies--an exotic land of nicotine and nightlights--where cabaret, jazz, and the odd American instrumental influence all coexist happily. Now remastered, this collection gathers Lenya's legendary 1957 recordings of Sins and her 1955 recording Sings Berlin Theatre Songs. Forget subtlety--Lenya is all about emotion. On cuts like "Pirate Jenny," Lenya's voice sounds fluttery and frantic, and on "Surabaya-Johnny," her German sounds fragile and sweet, but mostly she's just herself--bittersweet, raw, and (most of all) human. In spirit, Marianne Faithfull, PJ Harvey, and a host of others all kept the torch of Lenya's style going. But after listening to these Berlin theater songs in classic form (and in their original tongue), you'll never hear them the same way again. --Jason VerlindeClassical Music CDs
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