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Berlin: Songs of Love and War

from: Winter & Winter

Release Date February 12, 2008
I feel that Theo Bleckmann is a unique vocal artist. His voice as a transparency that floats on the air and doesn't clutter the music as written by the composers he selects to highlight. He has made a name for himself with several collaborative projects with Ben Monder. For my money, this work transcends them all. He brings a wonderful nuance and clarity to these works sung in both German and English. I highly recommend this disc as well as his disc recently released with Meredith Monk. You will not be sorry

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Let Yourself Go

by: Kristin Chenoweth, Jule Styne, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Jeanine Tesori, Kurt Weill, Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Ricky Ian Gordon, Richard Dworsky, Lawrence Ellington Duke / Brown, Harry Warren, Bobby Troup, Jason Alexander, Irving Berlin, Rob Fisher, The Coffee Club Orchestra

Release Date May 29, 2001
The first time I saw Kristin Chenoweth in a movie was the TV "Music Man". Just lately I listened to the "Wicked" soundtrack, and after that, I've been listening to Kristin's CDs whenever I can. This one is a jazzy, Broadway-type CD with fun, engaging songs. She's a different type of singer, and while not everyone might enjoy her voice, I really do. If you like Broadway, jazz, drama, romance, or just fun, catchy songs, this is a CD for you.

CD-Charts Position 3
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The Kurt Weill Project

from: Lml Music

Release Date August 12, 2008
The first time I saw Kristin Chenoweth in a movie was the TV "Music Man". Just lately I listened to the "Wicked" soundtrack, and after that, I've been listening to Kristin's CDs whenever I can. This one is a jazzy, Broadway-type CD with fun, engaging songs. She's a different type of singer, and while not everyone might enjoy her voice, I really do. If you like Broadway, jazz, drama, romance, or just fun, catchy songs, this is a CD for you.

CD-Charts Position 4
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Bea Arthur on Broadway - Just Between Friends

by: Bea Arthur

Release Date February 12, 2002
Bea Arthur finally releases her Broadway album, and the highlights are too many to mention. My personal favorites were her memories of Angela Lansbury, Talulah, and the very funny (yet not original) jokes (especially the ones about the nun and the cab driver).

The thing is, Bea has never been much of a songstress or vocalist - she has a deep voice with a very flat quality, which makes even her 'high' notes sound about exactly as the same as her low ones. This may or may not be a good thing, but the focus on the CD is the entire show itself. Bea positions herself as host, singer, stand-up comedian, storyteller, and world observer, and all of these roles meld into one another with remarkable ease.

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CD-Charts Position 5
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Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins & Berlin Theatre Songs

from: Sony

Release Date December 09, 1997
I had never heard, or heard of Lotte Lenya until the opening line of "Seven Deadly Sins" on this priceless reissue combined with the "Berlin Theatre Songs." I was dumbstruck, stunned, and realised I was hearing a singer who actually becomes the character. Song after song--tragedy, irony, gayety, cruelty--delivered with a voice that shudders, groans, or slides as if from experience. And living in 1920's Berlin, much of it likely WAS experience.

Teresa Stratas and Ute Lemper give interesting, sometimes evocative renditions of this music. And Gisela May is a melodramatic mimic of Lenya--devoid of character. Hearing Gisela after Lenya is almost offensive.

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Woody Allen Classics

from: Sony

Release Date August 24, 1993
Really interesting selection. Not popular pieces, but yes charmes ones.
Highly recommended for intense and sensefull music lovers

CD-Charts Position 7
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September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill

from: Sony

Release Date August 19, 1997
Ok c'est arrivé en bon état. Délai d'attente un peu long mais c'est loin l'Amérique!

CD-Charts Position 8
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Classic Julie Classic Broadway

from: Decca Broadway

Release Date June 19, 2001
this is not one orf her best recordings, her voice is not what is used to be, buy only if you're a true follower of her. nelson

CD-Charts Position 9
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Lovemusik (2007 Original Broadway Cast)

from: Ghostlight

Release Date November 27, 2007
I saw the show in spring of 2007 and loved it. Couldn't believe they hadn't made a soundtrack! I was so disappointed that I couldn't leave the theater with a CD! Then 7 months later I was soooo delighted when Amazon sent me a recommendations email (based on previous purchases) and look at that, they finally DID make a soundtrack! Bought 3: one for me, one for the person I invited to join me, and one for the person who gave me the tickets! Lovemusik: great music and wonderful story.

CD-Charts Position 10
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The Threepenny Opera (1994 London Donmar Warehouse Cast)

by: Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Tom Hollander, Sharon Small

Release Date February 18, 1997
The wonderful thing about the Threepenny Opera is that every recording is completely different than the previous, yet each one is integral in acheiving an understanding of what this show is about. For instance, I adore the original Broadway recording with Bea Arthur, Lotte Lenya, Scott Merrill, Charlotte Rae and Jo Sullivan the most because of the glorious mono sound and the brilliant performances. But this Donmar version is much closer to the themes and styles of Brecht's sophisticatedly vulgar text.

Some minor quibbles I'd say are the voices, orchestrations and the recording quality (it sounds like it was recorded in an ampitheatre), and I feel as if more clever rhyme-schemes were sacrificed and replaced with lyrics of shock value.

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