The threepenny opera Original cast album
Music - 2000
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- Published
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New York, NY :
Decca Broadway : Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution
p2000.
- Language
- English
German - Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Item Description
- Music by Kurt Weill ; original text by Bert Brecht ; English adaptation of book and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein.
Bonus track: The ballad of Mack the Knife.
Program notes on insert in container.
Musical; based on The beggar's opera.
"Originally released as M-G-M album E/SE 3121, July 1954"--Insert.
Program notes by David Farneth and synopsis from 1954 album (15 p. : ill.) inserted in container. - Physical Description
- 1 compact disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- Prologue (spoken)
- Overture
- The ballad of Mack the Knife
- Morning anthem
- Instead-of-song
- Army song
- Wedding song
- Love song
- Ballad of dependency
- The world is mean
- Melodrama ; and, Polly's song
- Pirate Jenny
- Tango-ballad
- Ballad of the easy life
- Barbara song
- Jealousy duet
- How to survive
- Useless song
- Solomon song
- Call from the grave
- Death message
- Finale : The mounted messenger
- Bonus track: The ballad of Mack the Knife (Lotte Lenya, vocals; Marc Blitzstein, piano).