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The threepenny opera
Dreigroschenoper. English
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- Creator
- book and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht ; music by Kurt Weill
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Canada : Jay, ℗1997
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc (60 min., 29 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocm37284018
- Credits
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- Tara Hugo, Tom Hollander, Simon Dormandy, Tom Mannion, Beverley Klein, Sharon Small, and members of the company, vocals; Gary Yershon, conductor
- Produced for records by John Yap
- Based on Elisabeth Haumptmann's translation of John Gay's the Beggar's opera; English translation by Robert David MacDonald; new lyric translations by Jeremy Sams.
- Original cast recording, the Donmar Warehouse production.
- Compact disc.
- Program notes by Gary Yershon inserted in container.
- Recorded at Lyndhurst Air Studios, London on March 20, 21, 1995.
- Overture (1:52) -- Peachum's morning song (morning chorale) (0:54) -- Kids today (1:41) -- Gang song (wedding song) (0:59) -- Pirate Jenny (3:29) -- Squaddies song (cannon song) (2:34) -- Love duet (1:40) -- Barbara song (4:48) -- Life's a bitch (Dreigroschenfinale) (3:53) -- Melodrama ; Polly's song (2:36) -- The ballad of sexual imperative (3:38) -- Knocking shop tango (4:44) -- The flick knife song (moritat) (4:16) -- Easy life (ballade) (2:36) -- Jealousy duet (2:34) -- What keeps a man alive? (II Dreigroschenfinale) (3:22) -- What's the point? (Lied. 17) (1:13) -- The Socrates song (Solomonsong) (3:20) -- A call from the grave (0:55) -- Ballad in which Macheath begs all mens' [sic] forgiveness (Grabschrift) (3:33) -- Act III finale (5:07)