Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera); Berlin 1930

Kurt Weill (Composer), Rudolf Nelson (Composer), Friedrich Hollaender (Composer), Wilhelm Grosz (Composer), Theo Mackeben (Conductor, Orchestra), Peter Paul Kreuder (Conductor), Three Admirals (Performer), Rudolf Nelson (Performer), Kurt Gerron (Performer), Erika Helmke (Performer), Lotte Lenya (Performer), Erich Ponot (Performer), Erich Ponto (Performer), Willi Trenk-Trebitsch (Performer), Marlene Dietrich (Performer), Curt Bois (Performer), Jacques Henley (Performer), Margo Lion (Performer), Albert Prejean (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Three Admirals, Rudolf Nelson, Kurt Gerron, Erika Helmke, Lotte Lenya, et al.
• Orchestra: Theo Mackeben
• Conductor: Theo Mackeben, Peter Paul Kreuder
• Composer: Kurt Weill, Rudolf Nelson, Friedrich Hollaender, Wilhelm Grosz
• Audio CD (June 25, 1991)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Teldec
• ASIN: B000000S88
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,883 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #88 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Historical Periods > Modern & 20th Century

Track Listings

1. Aus der Dreigroschenoper: Overture und Moritat von Mackie Messer

2. Aus der Dreigroschenoper: Seerauberjenny

3. Aus der Dreigroschenoper: Kanonensong

4. Aus der Dreigroschenoper: Liebeslied

5. Aus der Dreigroschenoper: Barbara Song

6. Aus der Dreigroschenoper: Erstes Dreigroschen-finale

7. Aus der Dreigroschenoper: Abschied

8. Aus der Dreigroschenoper: Zuhalterballade

9. Ballade vom angenehmen Leben

10. Eifersuchtsduett

11. Aus der Dreigroschenoper: Zweites Dreigroschen-Finale

12. Aus der Dreigroschenoper: Leiben von der Unzulanglichkeit ds menschlichen Strebens

13. Aus der Dreigroschenoper: Moritat und Schlusschoral

14. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: Wie man sie bettet

15. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: Alabama Song

16. Das Nachtgespenst

17. Peter

18. Gluck doch nicht immer dem Tangogeiger hin

19. Jonny

20. Vom Seeman Kuttel Daddeldu

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing - these are abbreviated versions of the songs, October 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera); Berlin 1930 (Audio CD)

As far as the record goes, the performances are wonderful. But -- there are many songs missing from the Three Penny Opera, and those that are included are sometimes presented in an abbreviated form. For instance, Barbara Song only has the last verse -- missing the wonderful wordplay and contrast with the earlier two verses.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Carola Neher - not Lotte Lenya, July 8, 2003

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L. Ticmanis "a reader from Europe" (Saarbrücken, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera); Berlin 1930 (Audio CD)

Just to clear something up, from hearing the samples on this site I'm almost positive that the female voice on this CD is Carola Neher (who played Polly in the original cast), not Lotte Lenya. In my opinion Neher was a much more pleasant singer than Lenya. Sad to say, she'd end up in a Stalinist Death Camp a few years later after fleeing from the Nazis to the USSR. The digital remastering seems to be nice, again judging from the samples (my grandmother had the original record and it was very noisy and not clear at all.) This is pretty much all that is left of pre-Third Reich German recordings, of course life recording during an actual performance was totally out of the question back than.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bone chilling excerpts from the original 1930 Berlin cast, June 10, 2000

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Jeffrey Harris "Jeff Harris" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera); Berlin 1930 (Audio CD)

This CD features Lotte Lenya with Mackeben conducting the original German cast of 1930. It has excerpts of the show only, but it's a fascinating glimpse into the original feeling of Kurt Weill's best known work. Lenya is bright and coldly perky. The sound is strctly old fashioned mono.