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Morning Performance: Towards Kurt Weill: 1: Looking West

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As part of the preparations for Radio 3's celebration next weekend of the centenary of Kurt Weill, Christopher Cook sets Weill's music - up to the time he fled Germany - in the context of other European and American music of the 1920s.

Busoni Nocturne Symphonique, Op 43 - BBCSO, conductor Oliver Knussen

Milhaud Le Carnaval d'Aix - Stephen Coombs (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor John Carewe

Poulenc Cinq Poemes de Ronsard - Lisa Milne (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)

Philipp Jarnach Romancero No 2, Op 19 (Morgenklangspiel) - BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor John Carewe

Poulenc Two Novelettes - Viv McLean (piano)

Honegger Pacific 231 - BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor John Carewe

Krenek Die Jahreszeiten - BBC Singers, conductor Nicholas Kok

Berg Der Wein - Susan Bullock (soprano), BBCSO, conductor Israel YinonÂ

Brian Kay on Kurt Weill: page 49

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
Piers Burton-Page
Source: Radio Times

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