I was going to snobbishly say that the original Seeräuber Jenny, Carola
Neher, made the best recording, but then I put on the old LP (with
Brecht's own recording of "Moritat" - Mackie Messer) & listened to her &
(early) Lenya in succession - Lotte is the tops. (I agree Marianne is
very good in her way.) Though I must say my very favourite Brecht/Weill
recording is in English - Cathy Berberian's "Song of sexual slavery",
which she translated herself, I believe - the English is at least as
good as the German (a fairly unique case.), and Berio's instrumentation
superb. And Milva's version of the same in Italian is wild, think Anna
Magnani.
Poachum ;-)
Robin Hamilton wrote:
>Ken Wolman wrote:
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>>About 2 weeks ago I heard a radio interview with Marianne Faithful, and
>>they played a relatively recent recording she made of "Pirate Jenny"
>>that made my skin crawl up and down my bones. Which is to say she was
>>superb. "As tears go by" may be forgotten.
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>Must check that out.
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>>Lenya/Lemper/Stratas level where you inhabit Weill's music.
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>Depends on the time Lotte Lenya was singing -- the original thirties version
>is magic, but by the fifties, her throat seemed to have gone into total
>meltdown.
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>MacHeath
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