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Thomas Hampson, Kurt Weill, John McGlinn
Kurt Weill On Broadway - Thomas Hampson, John McGlinn, London Sinfonietta
Genres: Pop, Classical, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Westwind
2. It Never Was You
3. How Can You Tell An American?
4. Song Of The Hangman
5. Come To Florence
6. My Lords And Ladies
7. There Was Life, There Was Love, There Was Laughter
8. You're Far Too Near Me
9. The World Is Full Of Villians
10. You Have To Do What You Do Do
11. Duet - 'Love Is My Enemy'
12. Who Is Samuel Cooper?; My Name Is Samuel Cooper
13. Here I'll Stay
14. I Remember It Well
15. This Is The Life
16. Johnny's Song

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CD Details

All Artists: Thomas Hampson, Kurt Weill, John McGlinn, London Sinfonietta, Elizabeth Futral, Jerry Hadley, Christopher Dee, Michael Dore, Simon Green, Simon Keenlyside, Donald Maxwell, Vernon Midgley, Brian Parsons, Terry Edwards, Justin Lavender, Michael Magee, Simon Birchall, Stuart Kale, Peter Sidhom, Simon Alder
Title: Kurt Weill On Broadway - Thomas Hampson, John McGlinn, London Sinfonietta
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI Classics
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 6/6/2006
Genres: Pop, Classical, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Symphonies, Musicals
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 094635824520

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CD Reviews

Too Little Broadway Weill

G. Dowling | St. Louis, MO, USA | 04/13/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It would seem a bit disingenuous to criticize a disc called "Kurt Weill on Broadway" for excluding selections from "Die Dreigroschenoper," a work written in 1920's Berlin in a style so distinctly different from that of his Broadway years. There are many, many recordings of "3-Penny" in both German and English, both complete and selections; there's no reason for their inclusion here. These Broadway years called for a very different Weill, one whose work is not well-enough represented on disc. Would that these beautifully-assembled selections had been more extensive, in a 2-disc set -- and that the full scores from all his American productions could be so well presented as these little-known selections."

I didn't know Kurt Weill wrote that!

B. Marold | Bethlehem, PA United States | 10/07/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"'Kurt Weill on Broadway' sung by Thomas Hampson is a good Kurt Weill album, but not the best it could have been. I have a strong suspicion that rather than do a collection of those English stage songs for which Weill is best known, Hampson simply did a collection of songs by Kurt Weill in which Hampson has already performed. Most of Weill's more famous English songs such as 'Sing Low' and 'September Song' are missing. And that doesn't even touch on the fact that there is nothing from 'The Threepenny Opera' which, although it was written in German, ran for a very long time on Broadway (or off Broadway)in a famous English translation by Mark Blitzstein. And, a third of the album is taken up by selections from 'The Firebrand of Florence', not one of Weill's best pieces.

I am happy to have these performances, but as an album, it probably only appeals to Kurt Weill fans. One thing I will say, however, is that it is really nice to have a male voice doing some Weill, since so much of his stuff was written and is performed by female Weill specialists."