Research Catalog

Title

The Lotte Lenya album [sound recording] / [composed by] Kurt Weill.

Author

Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950

Publication

[New York] : Columbia, [1970]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lenya, Lotte
• Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.

Description

2 sound discs (87 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono.; 12 in.

Series Statement

Columbia masterworks

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Lotte Lenya sings Berlin theater songs of Kurt Weill
• Lotte Lenya sings American theater songs of Kurt Weill

Subjects

• Musicals > Excerpts
• Operas > Excerpts

Note

• Columbia: MG 30087 (M 30168--M 30169)
• Sung in German and English.
• Previously released as Columbia ML 5056 and KL 5229.
• Program notes by James V. Thibaudat and texts of the German songs, with English translations, on container.
• Lotte Lenya sings Berlin theater songs of Kurt Weill (disc 1) ; Lotte Lenya sings American theater songs of Kurt Weill (disc 2).

Event (note)

• Recorded in Hamburg, 1955, and New York City, 1957.

Source (note)

• Bob Rickles Jazz Collection donated by Doris Rickles

Contents

Moritat (from "The threepenny opera") -- Barbara-song (from "The threepenny opera") -- Seeraäber-Jenny (from "The threepenny opera") -- Havanna-lied (from "Mahagonny") -- Alabama-Song (from "Mahagonny") -- Wie man sich bettet (from "Mahagonny") -- Bilbao-Song (from "Happy end") -- Surabaya-Johnny (from "Happy end")-- Was die Herren Matrosen sagen-Tango (from "Happy end") -- Vom ertrunken mad̈chen (from "Berlin Requiem") -- Lied der Fennimore (from "Der silbersee") -- Cas̈ars Tod (from "Der Silbersee") -- September song (from "Knickerbocker holiday") -- It never was you (from "Knickerbocker holiday") -- Saga of Jenny (from "Lady in the dark") -- Foolish heart (from "One touch of Venus") -- Speak low (from "One touch of Venus") -- Sing me not a ballad (from "The Firebrand of Florence") -- Lonely House (from "Street scene") -- A boy like you (from "Street scene") -- Green-up time (from "Love life") -- Trouble man (from "Lost in the stars") -- Stay well (from "Lost in the stars") -- Lost in the stars (from "Lost in the stars").

LCCN

79751431

OCLC

• 3531021
• ocm03531021

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library