1943 KURT WEILL piano LOTTE LENYA LOST IN THE STARS / LOVER MAN BOST RECORDS 78

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Lost in the Stars / Lover Man

Lotte Lenya with the composer at the piano

November-December 1943
Arranges eight songs for Lenya to record on Bost Records (BA 8): "Surabaya Johnny," "Denn wie man sich bettet," "J'attends un navire," "Complainte de la Seine," "Lost in the stars," and "Lover man," "Barbara-Song," and "Kanonensong" (the last two are not recorded). Weill supervises the recording and perhaps plays the piano accompaniment.

Condition: Very Good Plus  basically unworn but very rubbed, short scratches and several light needle runs on STARS, plays VG++ quiet w crackly hiss

 Warning: These Bost records are the worst recorded disks in my experience. Even clean disk sound very distorted. Will need some creative EQ.

"She cannot read music but when she starts to sing, people listen as if they were listening to Caruso." That's how composer Kurt Weill described his wife's artistry. Lotte Lenya's unique charisma and unmistakable husky timbre helped the Brecht/Weill songs achieve both popularity and immortality. These historic and rare recordings include Lenya's 1930/1929 accounts of her signature songs "Pirate Jenny" (from The Threepenny Opera) and "Surabaya-Johnny" (from Happy End). Next are 1932 recordings with orchestra of "Alabama Song," "Make Your Own Bed," and a medley—all from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Weill accompanies Lenya on the next group of six songs: "Lost in the Stars" and "Lover Man" (with texts by Maxwell Anderson), "J'attends un navire," "Complainte de la Seine," "Surabaya-Johnny," and "Wie man sich bettet/Make your own bed." He was the pianist again in 1943, for "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife" and "How Much Longer"—which the couple recorded for short-wave transmissions to Germany from exile in America

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