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, Reprise
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, Reprise
23. Illusion Wedding Show
24. It Never Was You
25. Bird of Passage
26. September Song
27. Threepenny

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57626 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

Truly Excellent Performances
LoveMusik was an intellectuals juke box musical and like most juke box musicals they can be seriously flawed. "LoveMusik" had its problems but nothing can stop Donna Murphy and Michael Cerveris two of probably the best actors currently on Broadway. Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy make an excellent Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. For the first time I think that I can really appreciate the music of Kurt Weill (something that was hard to do in the past thanks to the unfortunate revival of "The Three Penny Opera" in 2006).

Songs like "I Don't Love You", "That's Him", "It Never was You" and "September Song" are truly mesmerizing. "Speak Low" should also be noted as an excellent Duet (seeing it staged was chilling and inspiring). Donna Murphy and John Scherer's (as George Davis) "September Song" is the best version I have ever heard, both heart breaking and hopeful. This CD includes a great cast and some great music.

It's Never Too Late to Love Kurt Weill
What a pleasant surprise this new cast recording is. Donna Murphy and Michael Cerveris were the drawing cards here, as Kurt Weill has always been an acquired taste and familiar primarily to musical theater afficianados. His only "known" songs are included here ("September Song", "It Never Was You", "Speak Low" and his biggie "Mack the Knife" - done here with a German lyric) but the songs were all culled from various works and promised to be a bit of a muddle. No such case. The performances of Murphy and Cerveris and sharp and defined, and David Pittu also has many great moments. The addition of so much dialog to this recording aids in following a plot that the songs can't quite convey, but what performances. Murphy is the true star of the show here. She seems to do her best work with extreme and unconventional characters (this and "Passion" in particular) and her idiosynchratic approach to Lotte Lenya is both comical and touching in its directness. The "classics" are all done with great aplomb but other songs, in particular "It's Never to Late to Mendelssohn", "Surabaya Johnny" and "The Illusion Wedding Show" are examples of the breadth of Weill's accomplishments. The final cut, introducing "The Threepenny Opera", concludes with Murphy / Lenya exhorting, "Look...it's Mack...the knife!" The orchestra surges and the effect is chilling in its evocativeness of a timeless work and a group of timeless artists. While not for everyone's taste, this show deserved to run longer as its promise and the delivery on that promise elevate it to a status rarely found in commercial theater. A daring and honorable work, yes, but downright entertaining in every way. I "Love" this "Musik".

A Moving Musical Cavalcade of an Historic Romance
Harold Prince and Alfred Uhry have fashioned a one-of-a-kind musical out of the lives and loves of two great artists of the 20th century, Kurt Weill and his muse Lotte Lenya, by creating a script of their existing letters and selecting songs from Weill's brilliant musical library to bring to life their true and troubled relationship. Each remarkable song is masterfully executed by the gifted cast which includes the Tony-award-winning dou, Donna Murphy and Michael Cerveris, as well as the splendid supporting Broadway veterans and newbies. Prince has always been able to recruit the best performers possible and he certainly didn't fail this time. What a shame that something this good and original cannot last on the Disneyland world once called Broadway, but, with stagehands wanting more money to turn on a light switch and keep a closed shop of blood relations, that long-forgotten world won't be back any time soon.