Kurt Weill - In Search of Youkali (Katie Bray)

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Composer: Kurt Weill

1. A Glimpse of Youkali - An Improvisation
2. Barbarasong (from The Threepenny Opera)
3. Berlin im Licht
4. Overture to The Threepenny Opera
5. Surabaya Johnny (from Happy End)
6. A Vision of Youkali - An Improvisation
7. Complainte de la Seine ("Beauties of the Night" from the Torn Dress)
8. Je ne t’aime pas (from Marie Galante)
9. J’attends un navire (from Marie Galant)
10. A Dream of Youkali - An Improvisation
11. Buddy on the Nightshift (from Lunchtime Follies)
12. Nanna’s Lied
13. September Song (from Knickerbocker Holiday)
14. Apple Jack (from Huckleberry Finn)
15. A Premonition of Youkali - An Improvisation
16. Speak Low (from One Touch of Venus)
17. My Ship (from Lady in the Dark)
18. This Time Next Year (from Huckleberry Finn)
19. Youkali

Katie Bray, mezzo-soprano

Murray Grainger, accordion

Marianne Schofield, double bass

William Vann, piano

Date: 2026

Label: Chandos

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Kurt Weill - Songs (Eleni Lydia Stamellou; Alexandra Listova)

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Composer: Kurt Weill

1. Alabama Song (1927)
2. Buddy on the Nightshift (1942)
3. Die Ballade Von Der Sexuellen Hörigkeit (1966)
4. Je Ne T'aime Pas (1933)
5. Le Roi D'aquitaine (1934)
6. Le Train Du Ciel (1934)
7. September Song (1938)
8. Johnny's Song ('To Love You and to Lose You') [1936]
9. Stay Well (1949)
10. Speak Low (1943)
11. Und Was Bekam Des Soldaten Weib? (1942)
12. Nanna's Lied (1939)
13. Salomon-Song (1929)
14. Zu Potsdam Unter Den Eichen (1928)
15. Youkali (1946)

Eleni Lydia Stamellou, soprano

Alexandra Listova, piano

Date: 2026

Label: Brilliant

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Kurt Weill - American Theatre Songs (Lotte Lenya)

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Composer: Kurt Weill; Paul Dessau; Hanns Eisler; John Kander

1. Weill - Knickerbocker Holiday: "September Song"
2. Weill - Knickerbocker Holiday: "It Never Was You"
3. Weill - Lady in the Dark: "Saga of Jenny"
4. Weill - One Touch of Venus: "Foolish Heart"
5. Weill - One Touch of Venus: "Speak Low"
6. Weill - The Firebrand of Florence: "Sing Me Not a Ballad"
7. Weill - Street Scene: "Lonely House"
8. Weill - Street Scene: "A Boy Like You"
9. Weill - Love Life: "Green Up Time"
10. Weill - Lost in the Stars: "Trouble Man"
11. Weill - Lost in the Stars: "Stay Well"
12. Weill - Lost in the Stars: "Lost In The Stars"
13. Weill - The Eternal Road: "Song of Ruth"
14. Weill - The Threepenny Opera: "The Solomon Song"
15. Dessau - Mother Courage: "Song"
16. Eisler - "Song of a German Mother"
17. Kander - Cabaret: "So What?"
18. Kander - Cabaret: "What Would You Do?"
19. Kander - Cabaret: "It Couldn't Please Me More (A Pineapple)"
20. Kander - Cabaret: "Married"
21. Weill - The Threepenny Opera: "Moritat vom Mackie Messer"
22. Weill - The Threepenny Opera: "Mack The Knife"
23. Weill - The Threepenny Opera: "Mack The Knife" (session takes)

Lotte Lenya

Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Maurice Levine

Harold Hastings & Orchestra

Louis Armstrong & his All-Stars

Date: 1957

Label: Sony

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Kurt Weill - The Seven Deadly Sins & Berlin Theatre Songs (Lotte Lenya)

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Composer: Kurt Weill

1. Die sieben Todsünden: Prolog
2. Die sieben Todsünden: Faulheit
3. Die sieben Todsünden: Stolz
4. Die sieben Todsünden: Zorn
5. Die sieben Todsünden: Völlerei
6. Die sieben Todsünden: Unzucht
7. Die sieben Todsünden: Habsucht
8. Die sieben Todsünden: Neid
9. Die sieben Todsünden: Epilog
10. Die Dreigroschenoper: "Moritat vom Mackie Messer"
11. Die Dreigroschenoper: "Barbarasong"
12. Die Dreigroschenoper: "Seeräuberjenny"
13. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: "Havanna-Lied"
14. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: "Alabama-Song"
15. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: "Denn Wie Man Sich Bettet"
16. Happy End: "Bilbao-Song"
17. Happy End: "Surabaya-Johnny"
18. Happy End: "Was die Herren Matrosen sagen"
19. Das Berliner Requiem: "Ballade vom ertrunkenen Mädchen"
20. Der Silbersee, Ein Wintermärchen: "Lied der Fennimore"
21. Der Silbersee, Ein Wintermärchen: "Cäsars Tod"

Lotte Lenya

Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (1-9)

Orchestra conducted by Roger Bean (10-21)

Date: 1956; 1955

Label: Sony

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Kurt Weill - Die Sieben Todsünden; etc. (Gisela May)

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Composer: Kurt Weill

1. Die Sieben Todsünden: Prolog. Andante sostenuto
2. Die Sieben Todsünden: Faulheit. Allegro vivace
3. Die Sieben Todsünden: Stolz. Allegretto, quasi Andantino
4. Die Sieben Todsünden: Zorn. Molto agitato
5. Die Sieben Todsünden: Völlerei. Largo
6. Die Sieben Todsünden: Unzucht. Moderato
7. Die Sieben Todsünden: Habsucht. Allgero giusto
8. Die Sieben Todsünden: Neid. Allegro non troppo
9. Die Sieben Todsünden: Epilog. Andante sostenuto
10. Berliner Requiem: Vom ertrunkenen Mädchen
11. Happy End: Surabaya Johnny
12. Happy End: Bilbao-Song
13. Happy End: Was die Herren Matrosen sagen
14. Happy End: Ballade von der Höllen-Lili
15. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: Havanna-Song
16. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny: Wie man sich bettet, so liegt man
17. Die Dreigroschenoper: Barbara-Song
18. Die Dreigroschenoper: Song von der sexuellen Hörigkeit
19. Die Dreigroschenoper: Seeräuber-Jenny
20. Berliner Requiem: Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen

Gisela May, soprano

Peter Schreier & Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, tenors

Günther Leib, baritone

Hermann Christian Polster, bass

Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

Herbert Kegel, conductor

Studio-Orchester

Henry Krtschil & Heinz Rögner, conductors

Date: 1966; 1968; 1965 / 2015

Label: Brilliant

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

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Composer: Kurt Weill

• Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)

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

Sender Freies Berlin

Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg, conductor

Date: 1958

Label: Sony

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Kurt Weill - Zaubernacht (Arte Ensemble)

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Composer: Kurt Weill

• Die Zaubernacht, Op. 7 (Kinderpantomime in einem Akt)

Arte Ensemble

Date: 2012

Label: CPO

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Kurt Weill - Symphonies; Quodlibet (Antony Beaumont)

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Composer: Kurt Weill

• Symphony No. 1
• Quodlibet, Op. 9
• Symphony No. 2

Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Antony Beaumont, conductor

Date: 2006

Label: Chandos

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Kurt Weill - Symphony No. 2; Violin Concerto; Mahagony Suite (Mariss Jansons)

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Composer: Kurt Weill

• Symphony No. 2
• Violin Concerto, Op. 12
• Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny – Suite from the opera

Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Mariss Jansons, conductor

Date: 1998

Label: EMI

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Kurt Weill; Paul Hindemith; Igor Stravinsky - Orchestral Works (Otto Klemperer)

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Composer: Kurt Weill; Paul Hindemith; Igor Stravinsky

• Klemperer - Merry Waltz
• Weill - Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
• Hindemith - Nobilissima visione – Suite
• Stravinsky - Symphony in Three Movements

Philharmonia Orchestra

Otto Klemperer, conductor

Date: 1961; 1954; 1962

Label: EMI

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Othmar Schoeck; Kurt Weill - Cello Sonatas (Johannes Goritzki; David Levine)

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Composer: Othmar Schoeck; Kurt Weill

• Schoeck - Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. posth
• Weill - Sonata for Cello and Piano

Johannes Goritzki, cello

David Levine, piano

Date: 1990

Label: Claves

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