Weill: The Threepenny Opera [Import]

Kurt Weill (Composer), Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggeberg (Conductor), Sender Freies Berlin (Orchestra), Erich Schellow (Performer), Inge Wolffberg (Performer), Johanna Von Koczian (Performer), Lotte Lenya (Performer), Trude Hesterburg (Performer), Willi Trenk-Trebitsch (Performer), Wolfgang Grunert (Performer), Wolfgang Neuss (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Erich Schellow, Inge Wolffberg, Johanna Von Koczian, Lotte Lenya, Trude Hesterburg, et al.
• Orchestra: Sender Freies Berlin
• Conductor: Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggeberg
• Composer: Kurt Weill
• Audio CD (December 2, 1987)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: CBS
• ASIN: B0000268VJ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,908 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Overture. You are about to hear an opera for beggars

2. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. The Ballad of Mack the Knife. First you will hear a penny-dreadful ballad

3. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Mr. Peachum's Morning Hymn. Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum has opened a store

4. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Instead-Of Song. Polly Peachum hasn't come home

5. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Wedding Song For Poor People. Deep in the heart of Soho

6. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Cannon Song. In reminiscence of the time they spent together in their yout

7. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. Love Song. Do you see the moon over Soho?

8. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. The Song of No and Yes (Barbara Song). By means of a little ditty

9. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 1. The Uncertainty of Human Conditions. Mr. and Mrs. Peachum advise their dau

10. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. The Stable. Mackie has to flee

11. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Polly's Farewell Song. He will never return

12. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Intermezzo. All right, now, if you should see Mack the Knife

13. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. There's a man who is a very Satan

14. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Pirate-Jenny or Dreams of a Kitchen Maid. Song of a little barmaid

15. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. The Procurer's Ballad. Macheath and Jenny the whore

16. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. The Ballad of Pleasant Living. Gentlemen, you be the judges

17. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. The Jealousy Duet. The first clouds in the skies

18. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Fight About the Property. Jealousy, rage, love and fear

19. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 2. Ballad About the Question 'What Keeps a Man Alive?'. You gentlemen, who te

20. Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), opera: Act 3. The Song About Inadequacy. What on earth is that?

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I pick this one, November 29, 2007

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Nina Shishkoff "mycologist" (Mount Airy, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weill: The Threepenny Opera (Audio CD)

I'm sure I haven't heard all the recordings of "The ThreePenny Opera", but of the ones I've heard, this is the best, both in performance and packaging. To have the lyrics in both German and English is tremendously helpful.