Kurt Weill - Die Dreigroschenoper (Lotte Lenya; Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg)

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Composer: Kurt Weill

• (01) Ouvertüre
• (02-09) Akt I
• (10-19) Akt II
• (20-26) Akt III

Soloists:
Wolfgang Neuss; Willy Trenk-Trebitsch; Trude Hesterburg; Erich Shellow; Johanna von Koczian; Lotte Lenya; Wolfgang Grunert; Inge Wolffberg; Kurt Helling; Paul Otto Kuster; Joseph Hausmann; Martin Hoepper

Günther-Arndt-Chor, chorus
Sender Freies Berlin, orchestra
Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg, conductor

Date: 1958
Label: CBS (now Sony Classical)

More info & reviews:
https://www.amazon.com/Weill-Threepenny-Opera-Die-Dreigroschenoper/dp/B0000268VJ

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Kurt Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German composer, who became a United States citizen in 1943. Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, such as Weill's best-known work The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill's music was admired by Berg, Zemlinsky, Milhaud and Stravinsky, but was also criticised Schoenberg and Webern. Sixty years after his death, Weill's music continues to be performed both in popular and classical contexts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weill

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Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer, 18 October 1898 in Vienna – 27 November 1981 in New York) was an Austrian singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), and also starred in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963). She was the founder of the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Lenya

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Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (April 15, 1906 in Stuttgart - April 1, 1985 in Hamburg) was a German conductor. He began his career in Munich as an assistant to Hans Knappertsbusch, and became director of the Hamburg Lehrergesangsverein in 1938. He frequently worked with the Hamburger Symphoniker and the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Brückner-Rüggeberg was known for his championing the works of Handel. Today, he is mainly known as the conductor of several commercial recordings of German operettas by Kurt Weill issued from 1956 to 1960 featuring Lotte Lenya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Br%C3%BCckner-R%C3%BCggeberg

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