Sir Simon Rattle opted to programme the ‘encore’ as the first piece, which therefore did not appear on the printed flyer-plus-QR code: Andrew Staples singing the wonderful ‘Lonely House’ from Street Scene – a piece without which, Rattle claimed, West Side Story could not have happened. Even Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny and the ‘ballet chanté in one act’ The Seven Deadly Sins ( Die sieben Todsünden) do not get full due, so it was lovely to hear this short concert ahead of the fuller concert the following evening, which added the Little Threepenny Music, Death in the Forest and two of the group of four Walt Whitman Songs. Quite the Half Six Fix this: Weill’s music remains under-appreciated (his 1921 Violin Concerto is a gem). Weill – Street Scene (1946): ‘Lonely House’ (with Andrew Staples)Īlessandro Fisher, Ross Ramgobin -Brothers (CC) LSO conducted by Sir Simon Rattle with Magdalena Kožená (Anna) (c) Mark Allan United Kingdom Weill: Soloists, London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor).
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