Musical Playwrights With Peggy Reynolds.
5: Bertolt Brecht. As a young man
Bertolt Brecht started to keep a diary because he knew he was going to be important. He was a liar and treated women badly, but he was a playwright of genius, whose ideas about the theatre led to some of the most innovative and influential work of the 20th century.
Weill The Threepenny Opera (excerpt) Lotte Lenya (soprano), orchestra, conductor Samuel Matlowsky
Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana
(excerpt) Suzanne Mentzer (mezzo), Philharmonia, conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli Weill The Seven Deadly Sins
Lotte Lenya (soprano), orchestra, conductor Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggeberg Eisler The Song of the Moldau Unspecified performers
SOUNDING THE CENTURY