Podcast #17: KURT WEILL - From Brecht to Broadway

If you know that sharks have teeth, dear, that’s probably because Kurt Weill told you so in “Mack the Knife.” But there’s much more to Weill than The Threepenny Opera and Mahagonny: he was a remarkably versatile composer whose music moved between Weimar satire, modernism, and Broadway. Join Jens and Joe as they explore the wide-ranging world of this extraordinary, hard-to-pin-down composer.

0:20   Introduction
1:36   Diversity in Music
3:16   “Mack the Knife” – The Threepenny Opera (1928)
4:00   Much More Than Three Pennies
4:48   Magic Night – Ballet Pantomime (1922)
7:37   The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken (1928)
9:16   Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930)
11:40  The Silver Lake (1933)
14:42   Paris – A Cow on the Road
16:01   A Kingdom for a Cow (1935)
20:51   The Eternal Road (Propheten) (1935)
22:48   US War Propaganda (1943)
26:11   The Firebrand of Florence (1945)
27:55   Love Life (1948)
29:26   Conclusion

C67011  Magic Night
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C60007  The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken
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C10160–61  Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
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C60011  The Silver Lake
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C60013  A Kingdom for a Cow (CD)
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PE803  A Kingdom for a Cow (DVD)

C5500  Propheten
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C10347  Historical Recordings

C60091  The Firebrand of Florence
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C5550  Love Life
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• Sir Andrew Davis

• Jan Latham-König

• Dennis Russell Davies — https://www.instagram.com/dennis_russell_davies/

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• Kölner Rundfunkorchester — https://www.instagram.com/koelner.kammerorchester/

• ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra — https://www.instagram.com/rso.wien/

• Chorus and Orchestra of the Wiener Volksoper — https://www.instagram.com/volksoper/

• Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North — https://www.instagram.com/operanorth/

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With:
Jens F. Laurson (Journalist) and Johannes Kernmayer (Producer)

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