Kurt Weill: Songs
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Composer or Director: Kurt (Julian) Weill
Label: Arabesque
Magazine Review Date: 11/1988
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 48
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: Z6579
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (4) Walt Whitman Songs |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Come up from the fields, Father |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Huckleberry Finn, Movement: River Chantry |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| (9) Propaganda Songs, Movement: Song of the Free (wds. A. McLeish) |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Love Life, Movement: This is the life |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Im Volkston, '(Das) Scheiden, ach das Scheiden' |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| (Das) Schöne Kind |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Stundenbuch, Movement: Vielleicht, dass ich durche schwere |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Stundenbuch, Movement: Mach mich zum Wächter deiner Weiten |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Stundenbuch, Movement: In deisem Dorfe steht das letzte Haus |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
Composer or Director: Kurt (Julian) Weill
Label: Arabesque
Magazine Review Date: 11/1988
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ABQC6579
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (4) Walt Whitman Songs |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Come up from the fields, Father |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Huckleberry Finn, Movement: River Chantry |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| (9) Propaganda Songs, Movement: Song of the Free (wds. A. McLeish) |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Love Life, Movement: This is the life |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Im Volkston, '(Das) Scheiden, ach das Scheiden' |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| (Das) Schöne Kind |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Stundenbuch, Movement: Vielleicht, dass ich durche schwere |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Stundenbuch, Movement: Mach mich zum Wächter deiner Weiten |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Stundenbuch, Movement: In deisem Dorfe steht das letzte Haus |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
Author: Andrew Lamb
In juxtaposing music from the first and last decades of Weill's compositional career this disc contributes further towards scotching the notion that there were two Weills—the German and the American. The earliest numbers are a couple of songs Weill composed as a teenager, of which the first (Im Volkston) demonstrates an undoubted allegiance to Schubert. The second (Das schone Kind) is a remarkably sophisticated piece for a 17year-old and more interesting I find, than the three Rilke settings of the 1920s that show Weill adopting the astringent style of the time.
More typically individual Weill are the songs from the other end of his career, including the River Chanty composed as a number for the Huckleberry Finn project that remained incomplete at his death. One can imagine how effective the number would have been on stage, no less than the most substantial single item in the collection—''This is the life'', a soliloquy from the ambitious Love Life. Weill's predilection for insistent rhythms in his accompaniments comes through repeatedly, most tellingly perhaps in the 1942 propaganda piece, Song of the free, but effectively also in ''Beat! Beat! Beat! Drums!'', one of three Walt Whitman settings for Paul Robeson.
Undoubtedly the theatre songs would have benefited from a greater variation in vocal tone as well as from the colour of orchestral accompaniment. But Kimbrough's performances of the Lieder are powerfully and emotionally effective, all the more so for Dalton Baldwin's experienced and sympathetic accompaniments.'
More typically individual Weill are the songs from the other end of his career, including the River Chanty composed as a number for the Huckleberry Finn project that remained incomplete at his death. One can imagine how effective the number would have been on stage, no less than the most substantial single item in the collection—''This is the life'', a soliloquy from the ambitious Love Life. Weill's predilection for insistent rhythms in his accompaniments comes through repeatedly, most tellingly perhaps in the 1942 propaganda piece, Song of the free, but effectively also in ''Beat! Beat! Beat! Drums!'', one of three Walt Whitman settings for Paul Robeson.
Undoubtedly the theatre songs would have benefited from a greater variation in vocal tone as well as from the colour of orchestral accompaniment. But Kimbrough's performances of the Lieder are powerfully and emotionally effective, all the more so for Dalton Baldwin's experienced and sympathetic accompaniments.'
Kurt Weill: Songs
Kurt Weill: Songs
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