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September Songs
Release Date: August 19, 1997 SK63046 CD Album The great songs of German-born composer Kurt Weill receive original interpretations on September Songs, a collection from Sony Classical that serves as the soundtrack for an innovative film project from director Larry Weinstein. Produced by the legendary Hal Wilner and featuring an all-star line-up of artists from the pop, alternative, classical, rock, jazz, and gospel worlds, September Songs presents the cabaret and theater songs of Kurt Weill in new performances that capture the rawness and bittersweet edge of Weill's creativity. Among the collaborators on this unusual projects are Lou Reed, PJ Harvey, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, David Johansen, Betty Carter, Mary Margaret O'Hara, The Persuasions, Charlie Haden, Teresa Stratas and William S. Burroughs. September Songs also includes vintage recordings of the composer's wife, singer Lotte Lenya, his most famous collaborator, Bertolt Brecht, and Weill himself. Filmmaker Larry Weinstein was inspired to create the film September Songs after hearing music producer Hal Wilner's 1986 Weill tribute recording Lost in the Stars. Wilner's recording featured Tom Waits, Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed and other artists creating a striking array of interpretations of Weill's songs, most of them written for his German ballad-operas of the 1920s, created with playwright Bertolt Brecht, or for Broadway musicals after Weill and his wife Lotte Lenya fled to the USA after Hitler came to power. Weinstein brought Wilner on board as the music supervisor for September Songs, a film in which each of the songs stands alone as a vignette, much as the songs do in the original version of Weill and Brecht's opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. |
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Track listing for CD Album 1 Mack The Knife from The Threepenny Opera ra wma20 wma32 wma128 2 Ballad of the Soldier's Wife ra wma20 wma32 wma128 3 Alabama Song from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ra wma20 wma32 wma128 4 Youkali Tango from Marie Galante ra wma20 wma32 wma128 5 Lost in the Stars from Lost in the Stars ra wma20 wma32 wma128 6 Pirate Jenny from The Threepenny Opera ra wma20 wma32 wma128 7 Speak Low from One Touch of Venus ra wma20 wma32 wma128 8 Oh, Heavenly Salvation from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ra wma20 wma32 wma128 9 Lonely House from Street Scene ra wma20 wma32 wma128 10 Surabaya Johnny from Happy End ra wma20 wma32 wma128 11 Don't Be Afraid from Happy End ra wma20 wma32 wma128 12 September Song from Knickerbocker Holiday ra wma20 wma32 wma128 13 Mack The Knife from The Threepenny Opera ra wma20 wma32 wma128 14 What Keeps Mankind Alive? from The Threepenny Opera ra wma20 wma32 wma128 |
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