Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill
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Composer: Hanns EislerComposer: Kurt Weill
Conductor: John Mauceri
Orchestra: RIAS Chamber Orchestra
Performer: Kai Rautenberg
Performer: Ute Lemper
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- The Winter's Tale: Fennimores Lied
- The Winter's Tale: Casars Tod
- The Winter's Tale: Die Moritat Von Mackie Messer
- The Winter's Tale: Salomon - Song
- The Winter's Tale: Die Ballade Von Der Sexuallen Horigkeit
- The Winter's Tale: Zu Potsdam Unter Den Eichen
- The Winter's Tale: Nannas Lied
- The Winter's Tale: Lied Des Lotterieagenten
- The Winter's Tale: Alabama-Song
- The Winter's Tale: Denn Wie Man Sich Bettet
- The Winter's Tale: Je Ne T'Aime Pas
- The Winter's Tale: I'm A Stranger Here Myself
- The Winter's Tale: Westwind
- The Winter's Tale: Speak Low
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Free Music Review: Affecting but oversold
Hit: 3 Stars
Prompted by both friends and reviewers, I've tried to learn to like Ute Lemper's Weill, but after valiant efforts, I must say I don't. She has great facility, it's true, in several languages, and she knows the timbre of a song and works hard to put it across. For me, however, she works too hard, whether it's the distracting breathiness of "je ne t'aime pas" or the "street kid" Berlin Rrrs in "Mackie Messer" or the aggressive Noo Yorking in "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", I end up feeling that I'm having the song pushed at me rather than allowed to flower for itself. In a cabaret setting they might (maybe) work better, but on disk, I don't find her vocally strong enough to carry the music alone. Too much wobble in the voice and not always either the breath or the pitch to make the longer phrases work. The comparison with Theresa Stratas in "Je ne t'aime pas" (or even better, the terrifying German version "Wie Lange Noch") is instructive. Lemper is small, touching, you can feel why someone would have left her, she oozes powdery pathos over a nightclub table. Stratas, Piaf-like, is riven by love and music alike and takes the song's lines where they naturally lead. For me, it's no contest.
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