Yuss, I've got the 1958 Lenya recording, with Erich Schellow as Macheath and
Wolfgang Neuss superb as the Moritatensanger. Gorgeous.
Also, there's a GW Pabst film of Dreigroschenopfer dating from 1931 (mmmm).
Also a translation into Scots by MacDiarmid, for footnote-collectors.
P
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> 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.
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