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This is the life : and other unrecorded songs

Title
This is the life : and other unrecorded songs / Kurt Weill.
Author
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Arabesque Recordings, ℗1988.

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Additional Authors
  • Symonette, Lys.
  • Kimbrough, S. T., 1936-
  • Baldwin, Dalton.
  • Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.
Description
1 audio disc (48 min.); 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, Feb. 9-14, June 30, 1986.
Uniform Title
Songs. Selections
Alternative Title
Songs.
Subject
  • Songs (Medium voice) with piano
  • Musicals > Excerpts, Arranged
  • Musicals > Excerpts, Arranged
  • Songs (Medium voice) with piano
Genre/Form
  • Songs
  • Songs.
Note
  • Sung in English and German.
  • Settings of words by Walt Whitman, Maxwell Anderson, Archibald Macleish, Alan Jay Lerner, Arno Holz and Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • Compact disc.
  • Program notes by Christopher Hailey; German texts with English translations ([7] p.) inserted in container.
Event (note)
  • Recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, Feb. 9-14, June 30, 1986.
Contents
Beat! beat! drums! (3:12) -- O captain! my captain! (4:30) -- Come up from the fields, father (4:45) -- Dirge for two veterans (4:37) -- River chanty (3:36) -- Song of the free (2:19) -- This is the life (6:16) -- Im Volkston (3:34) -- Das schone Kind (3:27) -- Villeicht das ich durch schwere Berge gehe (2:34) -- Im diesen Dorfe (4:11) -- Mach mich zum Wachter deiner Weiten (4:05).
LCCN
2672406579
OCLC
  • ocm18684019
  • 18684019
  • SCSB-14448607
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library