The Kurt Weill Foundation presents an occasional list of recent publications in various media pertaining to Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, and Marc Blitzstein. Please suggest additions and corrections to webmaster@kwf.org.
VIDEOS
Street Scene. Teatro Real Madrid production, filmed February 2018. Starring Patricia Racette and Paulo Szot; staged by John Fulljames, conducted by Tim Murray. Bel Air Classiques BAC162. (DVD and Blu-ray, all regions).
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage. Directed by Ben DeJesus. PBS American Masters AM61808.
BOOKS
Henke, Matthias, ed. Zeitgenossenschaft!: Ernst Krenek und Kurt Weill im Netzwerk der Moderne. Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2019.
Bélicha, Roland. Kurt Weill: la grande chronologie. Paris: Editions Au Net, 2019.
Warnock, Barbara and John March. Berlin – London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon. London: Stephen Morris and the Wiener Library, 2019. (Includes several photographs of Lenya.)
CD’s
Worthweill Originals, Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy, Arjan Tien, conductor. Channel Classics CCS 42019. (Includes Kleine Dreigroschenmusik and music by Hindemith, Schoenberg, Beethoven, et al.)
I’m a Stranger Here, Claudia Marie-Thérèse Hasslinger, vocal, Anita Azzi, piano. EMA Vinci 70136. (Includes fourteen Weill songs.)
My Lotte: The Song of Kurt Weill, Lara Puglia, vocals, Luca Savazzi, piano. Notami NJ 027. (Includes ten Weill songs.)
Naked Circus: Ayuko Sings Kurt Weill. Ayuko, vocals, Taihei Asakawa, piano and arrangements, Nao Takeuchi, woodwinds, Tetsu Saitoh, bass. Audio Fab Records AFD 117. (Includes ten Weill songs.)
Affinities. Fanie Antonelou, soprano; Kerstin Mörk, piano. Bis BIS-2439. (Includes “Der Abschiedsbrief” and “Klops-Lied.”)
Mademoiselle in New York, Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet, BBC Concert Orchestra, Bill Elliott, conductor. Warner Classics 0190295407100. (Includes arrangement of “Je ne t’aime pas.”)
Kurt Weill Revisited, vol. 2. Various artists; re-issue of of original recording produced by Ben Bagley. Kritzerland KR 20037-6.
Kenneth Hamilton Plays Ronald Stevenson, vol. 2. Prima Facie PFCD 107. (Includes premiere recording of Stevenson’s “Threepenny Sonatina.”)
ARTICLES
Götz von Olenhusen, Albrecht. “Der Zufall, das Glück und der Dreigroschenfilm: Die Dreigroschenprozesse von Bertolt Brecht und Kurt Weill revisited.” Published in Zufall und Wissenschaft: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, ed. Christian Bachhiesl, et al. (Weilerswist: Velbrück, 2019), pp. 268-302.
