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The Collector's The Threepenny Opera
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Album: The Collector's The Threepenny Opera
# Song Title   Time
1)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Overture - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya
2)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Moritat (Mack, the Knife) - Lewis Ruth Band/Kurt Gerron
3)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Ballad of the Agreeable Life - Lewis Ruth Band/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch
4)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Love Duet - Lewis Ruth Band/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch/Erika Helmke
5)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Cannon Song - Lewis Ruth Band/Kurt Gerron/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch
6)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Pirate Jenny - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya
7)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1 Finale - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya/Erika Helmke/Erich Ponto
8)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Barbara Song - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya
9)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Jealousy Song - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya/Erika Helmke
10)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Farewell - Lewis Ruth Band/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch/Erika Helmke
11)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2 Finale - Lewis Ruth Band/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch
12)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Producer's Ballad - Lewis Ruth Band/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch/Lotte Lenya
13)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Song of the Inadequacy of Life - Lewis Ruth Band/Erich Ponto
14)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Moritat (Reprise) - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya
15)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Final Chorus - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya
16)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Moritat - Theo Mackeben's Jazz Band/Bertolt Brecht
17)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Song of the Inadequacy of Life - Theo Mackeben's Jazz Band/Bertolt Brecht
18)    Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, suite for wind orchestra (based on "Die Dreigroschenoper"): Moritat - Berlin State Opera Orchestra
19)    Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, suite for wind orchestra (based on "Die Dreigroschenoper"): Ballade - Berlin State Opera Orchestra
20)    Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, suite for wind orchestra (based on "Die Dreigroschenoper"): Tango-Ballade - Berlin State Opera Orchestra
21)    Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, suite for wind orchestra (based on "Die Dreigroschenoper"): Cannon Song - Berlin State Opera Orchestra
22)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Moritat - Mme Damia
23)    Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), opera: Alabama Song - Three Admirals/Lotte Lenya
24)    Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), opera: As You Make Your Bed - Theo Mackeben & His Jazz Orchestra/Lotte Lenya
25)    Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), opera: Medley - Cast/Lotte Lenya
26)    Happy End, musical play: Bilbao Song - Theo Mackeben & His Jazz Orchestra/Lotte Lenya
 

Album: The Collector's The Threepenny Opera
# Song Title   Time
1)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Overture - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya
2)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Moritat (Mack, the Knife) - Lewis Ruth Band/Kurt Gerron
3)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Ballad of the Agreeable Life - Lewis Ruth Band/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch
4)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Love Duet - Lewis Ruth Band/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch/Erika Helmke
5)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Cannon Song - Lewis Ruth Band/Kurt Gerron/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch
6)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Pirate Jenny - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya
7)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1 Finale - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya/Erika Helmke/Erich Ponto
8)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Barbara Song - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya
9)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Jealousy Song - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya/Erika Helmke
10)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Farewell - Lewis Ruth Band/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch/Erika Helmke
11)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2 Finale - Lewis Ruth Band/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch
12)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Producer's Ballad - Lewis Ruth Band/Willi Trenk-Trebitsch/Lotte Lenya
13)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Song of the Inadequacy of Life - Lewis Ruth Band/Erich Ponto
14)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Moritat (Reprise) - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya
15)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Final Chorus - Lewis Ruth Band/Lotte Lenya
16)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Moritat - Theo Mackeben's Jazz Band/Bertolt Brecht
17)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Song of the Inadequacy of Life - Theo Mackeben's Jazz Band/Bertolt Brecht
18)    Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, suite for wind orchestra (based on "Die Dreigroschenoper"): Moritat - Berlin State Opera Orchestra
19)    Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, suite for wind orchestra (based on "Die Dreigroschenoper"): Ballade - Berlin State Opera Orchestra
20)    Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, suite for wind orchestra (based on "Die Dreigroschenoper"): Tango-Ballade - Berlin State Opera Orchestra
21)    Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, suite for wind orchestra (based on "Die Dreigroschenoper"): Cannon Song - Berlin State Opera Orchestra
22)    Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Moritat - Mme Damia
23)    Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), opera: Alabama Song - Three Admirals/Lotte Lenya
24)    Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), opera: As You Make Your Bed - Theo Mackeben & His Jazz Orchestra/Lotte Lenya
25)    Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), opera: Medley - Cast/Lotte Lenya
26)    Happy End, musical play: Bilbao Song - Theo Mackeben & His Jazz Orchestra/Lotte Lenya
 
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  • Personnel: Kurt Gerron, Lotte Lenya, Bertolt Brecht , Erika Helmke, Erich Ponto (vocals).
  • Recording information: 1929-1931.
  • Ensembles: Lewis Ruth Band; Three Admirals.
  • VAI's The Collector's The Threepenny Opera is a reissue of a Mastersound disc that came out a long time before this VAI issue appeared. It features the 1930 "original cast" recording of "Die Dreigroschenoper" with the Lewis Ruth Band which, although temporarily eclipsed by the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, has been in print in some form or another since it was reissued on LP by Telefunken in the early '50s. Indeed, it appears that the Telefunken LP is the source for much of this material, as telltale reverberation used on that reissue is clearly present here. In the CD era, the Lewis Ruth Band performance has appeared on discs issued by Symposium, Capriccio, Pearl, and Telefunken's successor, Teldec, in the giant 11-CD box of Lotte Lenya that Bear Family put out, and yet more. Of the other performances included to fill out the disc, namely the 1931 "Mahagonny" "original cast" recording, Otto Klemperer's "Kleine Dreigroschenmusik" made the same year, Bertolt Brecht's two records of (ahem!) singing, and Lenya's 1929 "Bilbao Song," all have appeared elsewhere except for one track, French cabaret singer Damia's 1931 record of "Moritat." This is a notable exception, as Damia is a terrific singer, and it is instructive as to how, through minor changes, Kurt Weill's "modernistic" music could be refashioned into a form capable of pleasing a more mainstream audience. However, that makes for only one unique track out of 26. Perhaps someday listeners can hear a Damia collection that will include this along with some of her other recordings. Certainly, the Lenya Bear Family box is excessive even for many of her most ardent fans. The Capriccio discs have the value of being more sonically honest -- if noisier -- than these. The added reverb on VAI's The Collector's The Threepenny Opera might be too much for the average "collector." Nonetheless, if one has never owned or heard these performances, wants to, and cannot stand 78 noise, then VAI's The Collector's The Threepenny Opera may prove an attractive option. ~ Uncle Dave Lewis
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