Kurt Weill Edition Vol. 2 (5 CDs)

Kurt WEILL (1900-1950)

Kurt Weill Edition Vol.2

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagony 

The Tsar has his Photograph Taken

Der Kuhhandel

Happy End

Anja Silja

Anny Schlemm  

König-Ensemble  

WDR Rundfunkorchester

Jan Latham-König

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CDs 1 and 2

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (1930) 

Anny Schlemm (Widow Begbick), Thomas Lehrberger (Fatty), Klaus Hirte (Trinity Moses), Anja Silja (Jenny), Wolfgang Neumann (Jimmy), Frederic Mayer (Jakob Schmidt, Toby Higgins), Paul Wolfrum (Bill), Hans Franzen (Joe), Pro Musica Vocal Ensemble of Köln State High School for Music, WDR Radio Orchestra Köln/Jan Latham-König

rec. WDR Funkhaus Studio 1, Cologne, June 1985

CD3

Der Zar lässt sich photographieren (1928) 

Barry McDaniel (Tsar), Carla Pohl (Angèle), Thomas Lehrberger (Assistant), Ulla Tocha (Boy), Marita Napier (False Angèle), Heinz Kruse (False Assistant), Hilke Helling (False Boy), Mario Brell (Leader), Hans Franzen (Equerry), 

Köln Radio Choir, WDR Radio Orchestra Köln/Jan Latham-König

rec. WDR Funkhaus Studio 1, Cologne, November 1984

CD4

Der Kuhhandel (1935)

Lucy Peacock (Juanita), Eberhard Büchner (Juan), Christian Schotenröhr (Mr Jones), Walter Raffeiner (Mendez), Udo Holdorf (Ximenez), Oskar Hillebrandt (Conchas), Darius Nieminowicz (Emilio), Ingeborg Most (Juan’s mother), Frederic Mayer (Bailiff), Renate Zimmermann (Odette), Regina Röttger (Maiden), Franz Gerihausen (Minister), Heinz Heidbüchel (Mayor), José Wagner (Rector), Köln Radio Choir, WDR Radio Orchestra Köln/Jan Latham-König

rec. Studio Stolberger Strasse, Cologne, 1990

CD5

Happy End (1929) 

Gabriele Ramm (Lilian), Walter Raffeiner (Bill, Hannibal), Karin Ploog (Woman in grey), Steven Kimbrough (Sam, Speaker), Lutz Göhnemeier (Narrator), Pro Musica Vocal Ensemble of Köln State High School for Music, König Ensemble/Jan Latham-König

rec. Studio Stohlberger Strasse, Cologne, October 1988

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

Kurt Weill - Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Kurt WEILL (1900-1950)

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (1930)

(Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)

Anja Silja (soprano), Paul Wolfrum (baritone), Anny Schlemm (contralto), Thomas Lehrberger (tenor), Klaus Hirte (baritone), Wolfgang Neumann (tenor), Frederic Mayer (tenor), Hans Franzen (bass)

Cologne Radio Orchestra 

Cologne Pro Musica Vocal Ensemble

Jan Latham-Koenig 

Date of Recording: 06/1985 

Venue:  Köln, Funkhaus des WDR, Saal 1 

Ruggero Leoncavallo - La Boheme (1897)

Ruggero LEONCAVALLO (1857-1919)

La Bohème 

Music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The opera received a successful premiere at the Teatro la Fenice, Venice on 6 May 1897.

Cast

Bruno Praticò 

Martha Senn 

Pietro Spagnoli

Jonathan Summers 

Giampaolo Grazioli 

Romano Emili

Mario Malagnini

Lucia Mazzaria

Cinzia de Mola

Silviano Pagliuca 

La Fenice Theater Orchestra

Jan Latham-Koenig

Weill - The Seven Deadly Sins; Mahagonny Songspiel

Kurt WEILL (1900-1950)

Texts: Berthold Brecht

Die Sieben Todsünden

(The Seven Deadly Sins)

Mahagonny Songspiel*

Soloists

Kölner Rundfunkorchester

Lothar Zagrosek

König-Ensemble*

Jan Latham-König*

Kurt Weill - Der Zar lässt sich photographieren (The Tsar has his Photograph Taken)

Kurt WEILL (1900-1950)

Der Zar lässt sich photographieren Op.21

(The Tsar has his Photograph Taken)

Barry McDaniel (baritone), Carla Pohl (soprano), Thomas Lehrberger (tenor), Ulla Tocha (vocals), Marita Napier (soprano), Heinz Kruse (vocals), Hilke Helling (vocals), Mario Brell (vocals), Hans Franzen (bass)

Cologne Radio Chorus, Cologne Radio Orchestra, 

Jan Latham-Koenig