Kurt Weill Edition Vol.1 (5 CDs)

Kurt WEILL (1900-1950)

Weill Edition, Volume I

Disc 1

Die Dreigroschenoper (1928)

Disc 2

Die sieben Todsünden (1933) 

Mahagonny Singspiel (1927) 

Disc 3

Der Lindberghflug (1929) 

Der Jasager (1930) 

Discs 4 and 5

Der Silbersee (1933) 

rec. 1987-94

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Volume I

Die Dreigroschenoper (1928) 

Walter Raffeiner (Macheath), Peter Nikolas Kante (Peachum), Jane Henschel (Mrs Peachum), Ulrike Steinsky (Polly), Gabriele Ramm (Jenny), Rolf Wollrad (Brown), Jolanta Teresa Kuznik (Lucy), Reinhard Firshow (Ballad singer), Händel Collegium Köln, König Ensemble/Jan Latham-König

rec. Studio Stohlberger Strasse, Cologne, 14-18 March 1994

Die sieben Todsünden (1933) 

Doris Bierett (Anna I & II), Dieter Ellenbeck, Karl Markus, Carlos Feller and Malcolm Smith (Family), WDR Radio Orchestra Köln/Lothar Zagrosek

rec. WDR Hall 1, Cologne, 24 January 1987

Mahagonny Singspiel (1927) \

Trudeliese Schmidt (Jessie), Gabriele Ramm (Bessie), Horst Hiestermann (Billy), Peter Nikolas Kante (Bobby), Walter Raffeiner (Charlie), Hans Franzen (Jimmy), König Ensemble/Jan Latham-König

rec. WDR Great Hall, Cologne, 12 October 1991

Der Lindberghflug (1929) \

Wolfgang Schmidt (Lindbergh), Herbert Feckler, Lorenz Minth and Christoph Scheeben (Voices), Pro Musica Köln, WDR Radio Orchestra Köln/Jan Latham-König

rec. WDR Funkaus, Cologne, 10 January 1987

Der Jasager (1930) 

Tobias Schmesser (Boy), Hilke Helling (Mother), Ulrike Schütte (Teacher), Thomas Bräutigam, Thomas Fischer and Michael Knöppel (Students), Dortmund University Chamber Choir, orchestra/Willi Gundlach

rec. Dortmund, 10-11 June 1990

Der Silbersee (1933) 

Hans Korte (Olim), Wolfgang Schmidt (Severin), Eva Tamassy (Frau von Luber), Hildegard Heichele (Fennimore), Udo Holdorf (Baron von Laur), Frederic Mayer (Lottery agent), Michael Thomas (Narrator), Elizabeth Eaton and Andrea Andonian (Shopgirls), John Riley-Schofield and Dariusz Niemirowicz (Youths), Pro Musica Köln, WDR Radio Orchestra Köln/Jan Latham-König

rec. Studio Stolberger Strasse, Cologne, 1989

In the framework of Capriccio’s Kurt Weill edition the present CD-Box now offers a collection of the prestigious recordings of well known and mostly unknown stage works of the composer. Beside the famous “Threepenny Opera” and “The Seven Deadly Sins” we also included some rarities like the radio cantata “Lindbergh’s Flight”, the School Opera “He Who Says Yes” and the romantic Winter Tale “The Silver Lake”