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| 1989 - A German Story | ...At the Berliner Ensemble theatre, Kaiser played Mack the Knife in Bertolt Brecht and KURT WEILL's Threepenny Opera. He was perhaps the GDR's biggest star on film and TV; he had a fortune and a mantlepiece full of awards and state honours, including the GDR's gold Patriotic Order of Merit. But in October 1992, Kaiser jumped to his death from his Berlin apartment window.... |
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| Discovering Music | ...Charles Hazlewood begins a three part exploration of the impact made by jazz and dance music in European music during the 1920s and '30s. Today he is joined by soprano Tara Harrison, tenor Alan Oke and the BBC Concert Orchestra for an audience workshop on the little known but highly personal music KURT WEILL composed for Georg Kaiser's 1933 anti-Third Reich play with music Der Silbersee (The Silver Lake).... |
| Front Row | ...With Kirsty Lang, including a report on Opera North's new production of KURT WEILL's rarely staged show Arms and the Cow, the tale of a rogue arms dealer.... |
| Music Matters | ...A profile of British composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett who is 70 this month. Plus a look at Opera North's production of Arms and the Cow, KURT WEILL's satirical operetta. With Petroc Trelawny.... |
| Opera In Action | ...In his approach to the operas of the German tradition - Beethoven's `Fidelio', Wagner's `Ring' cycle and the operas of KURT WEILL - Robert Lloyd seeks out performances that reveal, perhaps surprisingly, something of the bel canto style of singing. Featuring recordings by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christa Ludwig and Ute Lemper, among others.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Recorded in December 1972, star of song, stage and screen Eartha Kitt thrilled a capacity audience at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. The legendary chanteuse was joined by the Nash Ensemble for songs by KURT WEILL, and then pianist-composer Richard Rodney Bennett accompanied her in a sequence of his own arrangements of American classics from the 20s and 30s.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley is joined by film-maker Roger Graef, noted for his fly-on-the-wall documentaries. His musical choices include pieces by Bloch, Kodaly and KURT WEILL ... |
| Rest Is Noise - Listening To The 20th Century, The | ...KURT WEILL and the story of Mack the Knife and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.... |
| Selling The Song | ...The great songwriters - Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, KURT WEILL - made acetate demos to help them sell songs to Hollywood or Broadway. They had fun taking on female roles or stopping to give performance tips. This programme explores a work in progress.... |
| Songs Of The Dark Times | ...Ivan Hewett explores Bertold Brecht's fascinating and often stormy collaborations with composers including KURT WEILL, Paul Hindemith and Hans Eisler.... |
| Sound Stories | ...3: Bastille Day. Peggy Reynolds introduces music including excerpts from De Lisle arr Berlioz: La Marseillaise. Placido Domingo (tenor), Paris Choir and Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim. Giordano: Andrea Chenier. Soloists, National PO/James Levine. KURT WEILL: Bastille Music. Ensemble Modern/H K Gruber. Dittersdorf: La prise de Bastille. Concerto Koln.... |
| Speak Low (when You Speak Love) | ...Erik Levi explores the background to the writing of `The Firebrand' as recalled in the letters between KURT WEILL and Lotte Lenya.... |
| Twenty Minutes - A Sound Read | ...Ivan Hewett is joined by music critic Michael White and art historian Frank Whitford to review recently published books on music, featuring a new biography of Aaron Copland by Howard Pollack, `To Boulez and Beyond' by Joan Peyser, and `KURT WEILL - a Life in Pictures' by David Farneth with Elmar Juchem and Dave Stein.... |
| Voices | ...Includes music by KURT WEILL, Wolf, Mahler and Schubert.... |
| Weill In The Archives | ...Memories of KURT WEILL from the BBC arcHIVes.... |
| Words And Music | ...Composer: KURT WEILL... |