The Kurt Weill Album
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KURT WEILL
The Kurt Weill Album
Katharine Mehrling (singr/actress), Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Joana Mallwitz
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 16 August 2024
With her Faustian ability to fathom the meaning behind every note on the page, Joana Mallwitz's desire to establish a meaningful dialogue with her orchestra, and her determination to weave the finest individual performances into a seamless musical whole, she has earned a reputation as a truly exceptional conductor. Deutsche Grammophon is delighted to release her first album for the yellow label - The Kurt Weill Album. Mallwitz, the first woman ever to head a Berlin orchestra, combines Kurt Weill's two symphonies, which the conductor calls "fantastic, exciting music firmly rooted in Berlin". Also she has recorded Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's mordantly satirical Seven Deadly Sins, with singer-actress Katharine Mehrling and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.
"Die sieben Todsünden ('The Seven Deadly Sins') is brought off with comparable deftness and élan...This Weill collection, polished but never slick, merits the very strongest recommendation." Gramophone
September 2024 Recording of the Month
"On the evidence of their first recording with Mallwitz for Deutsche Grammophon, in music by a composer with impeccable Berlin connections, there's already a good rapport between the conductor and her players...The symphonies are muscular and intense, the theatre piece pungent and sardonic; it's an impressive debut disc." (The Guardian)
Tracks:
Symphony No. 1 in one movement 'Berliner Symphony'
The Seven Deadly Sins
Symphony No. 2 'Symphonic Fantasy'
