Though I meant the early Lenya, Peter, recorded 1928 - 1930, sounding
the way Weill meant it to sound; Sony/CBS push their much later
recordings of Dreigroschenoper, Mahagonny etc , of course, but there she
has become more of a cabaret diseuse, very good but not the same thing -
on modern recordings you can hear Stratas sing the right notes, but she
hasn't really got the style pitch-perfect for my money. You really need
those early recordings to get that Berlin bitter-sweet tang, so near &
so far from operetta. Here is a very good discography - if I had the
money I'd buy this (& other Bear family boxed CD sets), but as it is I'm
holding on to my old LPs - plus, of course, the Columbia stuff. -
http://www.kwf.org/pages/ll/lldisco.html
mj
Peter Cudmore wrote:
>Yuss, I've got the 1958 Lenya recording, with Erich Schellow as Macheath and
>Wolfgang Neuss superb as the Moritatensanger. Gorgeous.
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>Also, there's a GW Pabst film of Dreigroschenopfer dating from 1931 (mmmm).
>Also a translation into Scots by MacDiarmid, for footnote-collectors.
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>P
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
>>poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>Behalf Of MJ Walker
>>Sent: 21 April 2005 23:19
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Dear Edditer
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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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