CD Review | Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins Wallis Giunta, mezzo-soprano; Jennifer France, soprano; Katarina Andreasson, violin; Benjamin Herzl, violin; Swedish Chamber Orchestra; HK Gruber, conductor BIS, 2026…
Browsing: Kurt Weill
Lebrecht Weekly | Kurt Weill: Love Life (Capriccio)
A failed Broadway musical by Kurt Weill arrests my attention. Reading that Weill deemed it ‘pregnant with possibilities for the non-realistic theatre’, I cancel all calls.…
Review | Marc-André Hamelin & OSM Swing in The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was an age of dramatic social and economic change, fabulous fashion, and of course, great music. A century onwards, Orchestre symphonique de…
Lebrecht Weekly | Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
The sound of Berlin in the Weimar years is defined by Kurt Weill. More than any other composer, his music for the Bertolt Brecht shows…
Lebrecht Weekly | Album of the Year (2023)
Album of the Year? There’s quite a few, from Vikingur Olaffson’s Goldberg Variations to Yuja Wang’s Rachmaninov concertos, to Semyon Bychkov Resurrection Symphony.
Lebrecht Weekly | Noel Coward and Friends: A Marvellous Party (Signum Classics)
The selection of songs made here by soprano Mary Bevan and tenor Nicky Spence includes a number of composers who are way out of period but still in the mood.
Lebrecht Weekly | Bartok, Krenek, Toch, Weill: 1923 (BR Klassik)
Go back a hundred years. This album, a dazzling act of creative programming by Bavarian Radio, covers three young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin and a…
Lebrecht Weekly | Kurt Weill: 2nd Symphony, Violin Concerto (Somm)
Banned in Berlin and exiled in March 1933, Kurt Weill stayed for a while in Paris where he wrote a symphonic work to a commission…
Requiem, The Pity of War (Warner)
Another themed album, but for once a timely theme. Ian Bostridge has chosen sets by two composers who fell in the First World War and…
Canadian Baritone Philip Kalmanovitch Makes Finals of 20th Annual Lotte Lenya Competition
The Kurt Weill Foundation is pleased to announce the fourteen young singer/actors named as finalists for the 20th annual Lotte Lenya Competition: Curtis Bannister (31,…
