Thomas Hampson - Dvorak Und Seine Zeit - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Thomas Hampson - Simon Boccanegra [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/29/2013

The score of The Prophets, intended as the last act of The Eternal Road, was the last that Kurt Weill composed in Europe and his last extensive setting in German, before he personally and professionally adopted the language of his new home, America. Musically, he drew on all his previous great works, from Mahagonny and the Seven Deadly Sins to his Second Symphony. At the same time, he foreshadowed some of his soon-to-be-written works for Broadway. In 1998 David Drew devised the concert adaptation of this act, of which this is the premiere's recording. The Four Walt Whitman Songs, meanwhile, were a product of the war years and reveal Weill at his most touchingly American, fusing American theater song with the German Lied, Berlin with Brooklyn.

Dura-Delinquent - HEAD OVER HIGH HEELS [7-INCH SINGLE] date 01/10/2002