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Songs for Bad Times, Vol. 2 [IMPORT]

Robyn Archer (Artist)

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Audio CD (September 24, 1999)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Import
Label: Festival
ASIN: B00003IQS6
In-Print Editions: MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,095,202 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. To Those Born Later - I Came to the towns / To Those Born Later - You Who Will Rise to the Surface 3:07 $0.89

2. The Cannon Song 2:20 $0.89

3. Ballad of Mack the Knife 2:36 $0.89

4. Second Threepeny Finale 3:29 $0.89

5. Song of the Moldau 1:14 $0.89

6. Nanna's Song 2:40 $0.89

7. Polly's Song 1:05 $0.89

8. Barbara Song 4:01 $0.89

9. Remembering Marie A 2:25 $0.89

10. Bilbao Song 4:52 $0.89

11. Supply and Demand 2:56 $0.89

12. Falada, Falada, There Thou Art Hanging' 2:35 $0.89

13. The Mask of Evil 1:05 $0.89

14. All of Us or None 1:58 $0.89

15. Ballad of Marie Sanders, the 'Jews Whore' 1:43 $0.89

16. To a Portable Radio 0:57 $0.89

17. On Sprinkling the Garden 1:03 $0.89

18. The Song of the Nazi Soldier's Wife 1:48 $0.89

19. The Way the Wind Blows 1:41 $0.89

20. Song of the Flow of Things 4:01 $0.89

21. Mother Courage's Song 3:33 $0.89

22. The Moment Before Impact 1:38 $0.89

23. The Play is Over 2:03 $0.89

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The second volume from one of Australia's greatest living female stage performers. These two outstanding recordings were made at London's Abbey Road Studios with the London Sinfonetta, and are considered the definitive English recordings of Bertold Brecht.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another Must Buy for Brect Song Afficionados, April 13, 2001

By	Julian P Killingley (Wakefield, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This second volume of Robyn Archer's renditions of Brecht songs is every bit as good as the first. Her style is flexible and ranges from the hard-edged to the lyrical. Some songs are sung to a piano accompaniment and others have an orchestral backing - but in every case Ms Archer's beautiful diction allows listeners to savor every word of Brecht's pungent verse.

This second volume has a number of well known songs drawn from Brecht's play and opera canon - but it also has lesser known songs with arrangements by Eisler and Dessau that are more like acerbic lieder.

I found the Song of the Moldau, To a Portable radio and The Song of the Nazi Soldier's Wife particularly memorable.

Buy it and enjoy it!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Songs for Bad Times, November 27, 2000

By	Andrew G. Lang (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Though the title "Songs for Bad Times" may be a mistake from a marketing point of view, we can be grateful to Larrikin Records for reissuing this long-lost set originally distributed by EMI. In her typically robust style, Austrialian singer and actor Archer has assembled a representative collection of the music three composers--Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler and Paul Dessau--wrote for songs and poems by Bertolt Brecht.

The themes reflect the contradictions of Brecht's experience as a political playwright who put his talents in the service of a Revolution that never came. From his "didactic" plays of the late Weimar years to his psychologically perceptive wartime poetry, Brecht proved himself to be a writer of power. But often recordings of the music for these works--particularly the poems--are not available in English. All of the texts in this collection are translated into sensitive, musical English, and that is one of the greatest values of this recording.

Backed by the world-renowned London Sinfonietta, "Songs for Bad Times" give the listener the chance to compare the very different styles of three of Brecht's most important collaborators: Weill, Eisler, and Dessau.

Note that on amazon.com, the two CDs of this set are sold as separate items.

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