Track Listing

1. Speak Low
2. Nanna's Lied
3. Kiddush
4. Song Of the Rhineland
5. Klops Lied (Meatball Song)
6. Berlin Im Licht
7. Tango Ballad
8. Alabama Song
9. Girl Of the Moment
10. Moritat
11. Schickelgruber
12. I Don't Love You
13. Wouldn't You Like To Be On Broadway?
14. Alabama Song
15. Entr'acte
16. Very, Very, Very
17. It's Never Too Late To Mendelssohn
18. Surabaya Johnny
19. Buddy On the Night Shift
20. That's Him
21. Hosannah Rockefeller
22. I Don't Love You
23. The Illusion Wedding Show
24. It Never Was You
25. A Bird Of Passage
26. September Song
27. Threepenny

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46016 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording

Customer Reviews

Great show; wonderful to have the CD
I saw the show in spring of 2007 and loved it. Couldn't believe they hadn't made a soundtrack! I was so disappointed that I couldn't leave the theater with a CD! Then 7 months later I was soooo delighted when Amazon sent me a recommendations email (based on previous purchases) and look at that, they finally DID make a soundtrack! Bought 3: one for me, one for the person I invited to join me, and one for the person who gave me the tickets! Lovemusik: great music and wonderful story.

A terrific score
The original cast recording of the musical, "Lovemusik" is a spectacular introduction to the lush and sophisticated music of Kurt Weill and his strange marriage to Lotte Lenya. Weill's music still thrills us after more than fifty years with it's inventive melodies and dissonant harmonies. Mack the Knife, The Alabama Song, Surabaya, Johnny, and September Song are just some of the great contributions of Weill and his lyricists.

Bittersweet "Lovemusik"
The idea intrigued me when I heard of it on Broadway: a musical about the relationship between Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, using the music of Kurt Weill and the lyrics of Bertold Brecht (translated), Maxwell Anderson, Ogden Nash, Ira Gershwin, and others. I feared it might be a hodge-podge, a glorified review. I was delightfully surprised that the songs not only fit the characters but advance the story as well, at least those songs that were not presented as part of a show or night club act. And what a cast! Donna Murphy's Lotte Lenya is uncanny, making us forget her distinctly different roles in Sondheim's Passion, Bernstein's Wonderful Town, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. Ms. Murphy obviously studied closely the singing and speaking sounds of Ms. Lenya, so evocative is her imitation. Michael Cerveris plays and sings the part of Kurt Weill in a similarly convincing fashion. Weill's songs almost all contain a bittersweet, slightly foreign quality, which makes them so haunting, and, in this case, makes them eminently suitable to the bittersweet story. From the beginning of the show, when Weill and Lenya sing "Speak Low" to the end when Lenya and her new friend sing "September Song", one is under the spell of this extraordinary composer who, having escaped Nazi Germany, made something of an artisitc success in the U.S.A., if not always with the woman he loved. He certainly made his distinctive mark on the American musical theater. The cd recaptured for me all that I found satisfying in the too-short-lived show, produced by the legendary Harold Prince, with a book by Alfred (Driving Miss Daisy, Parade) Uhry.