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NME Video: Music News - 3 October 2008

NME Video: Music News - 3 October 2008

NME's weekly round-up of the best in music news. Just in - the Dirty Pretty Things break-up, Arctic Monkeys get booked for festivals in 2009, Foals head to the sun for their new album and Kurt Cobain's ashes to go up...

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Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill (vaimusic.com)

Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill (vaimusic.com) (04:31)

vaimusic.com Lotte Lenya sings "Surabaya Johhny" from Happy End (Brecht/Weill) (1958) From: VAI DVD 4319 Theater Songs of Brecht & Weill Starring Lotte Lenya and Gisela May Lotte Lenya and Gisela May were the two most...

Mack the Knife Sung by Lotte Lenya

Mack the Knife Sung by Lotte Lenya (03:40)

The song "Mack the Knife" was witten by Kurt Weill for his wife Lotte Lenya. Here Ms Lenya sings "Mack the Knife" in its original German. ... Lotte Lenya Three Penny Opera Kurt Weil Mack the Knife

Charlie Haden Kurt Weill on September Songs

Charlie Haden Kurt Weill on September Songs (04:54)

Performing "Speak Low"

Mack The Knife (original)

Mack The Knife (original) (02:48)

Here's the original song 'Die Moritat von Mackie Messer' from the 'Threepenny opera' sung by Bertolt Brecht. He wasn't a great singer but I like it anyway. I hope you like it too and enjoy the original version! I do...

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Kurt Weill Biography

thumb|Kurt Weill. thumb|Kurt Weill. Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), was a German, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the stage. He also wrote a number of works for the concert hall.

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Kurt Weill's Best Songs

  • 1. September Song
  • 2. V. Dance of the Tumblers
  • 3. I. My Ship: Andante misterioso
  • 4. Speak Low From One Touch Of Venus
  • 5. Die Moritat von Mackie Messer
  • 6. IV. Allegro alla marcia
  • 7. VI. The Saga of Jenny
  • 8. Ouverture
  • 9. Liebeslied
  • 10. III. Bolero, "This is New"
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Kurt Weill Discography

Kurt Weill albums.

  • Weill: Die sieben Todsunden / Chansons - (Harmonia Mundi/FR)
  • Die Dreigroschenoper (The Konig Ensemble) - (Capriccio/DE)
  • Speak Low: Songs by Kurt Weill & The Seven Deadly Sins (feat. conductor: John Eliot Gardiner, mezzo-soprano: Anne Sofie von Otter) - 14/03/1995 (Deutsche Grammophon/US)
  • L'Opera de quat'sous / Berlin 1930 - (TELDEC/DE)
  • Stranger Here Myself: Songs of Kurt Weill (disc 1) - (Koch International/US)
  • Stranger Here Myself: Songs of Kurt Weill (disc 2) - (Koch International/US)
  • Die Dreigroschenoper (RIAS Berlin Sinfonietta feat. conductor: John Mauceri) - (Metronome/DE)
  • Berlin im Licht - (Largo Records/DE)
  • Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Norddeutscher Radio-Chor & Orchester feat. conductor: Wilhelm Brukner-Ruggeberg) (disc 1) - (CBS Masterworks/AT)
  • Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Norddeutscher Radio-Chor & Orchester feat. conductor: Wilhelm Brukner-Ruggeberg) (disc 2) - (CBS Masterworks/AT)
  • Die Dreigroschenoper (Sender Freies Berlin feat. conductor: Wilhelm Brukner-Ruggeberg) - (CBS Masterworks/AT)

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