By NS94944
29-Sep-2012

The Muse Eternal  

This album gives us a chance to sample classic recordings of Lotte Lenya at all stages of her long and illustrious life: the once unknown young cabaret singer, the Berliner who so perfectly sang Kurt Weill's songs in a voice that for all times will be that of the Weimar Republic, and then again in later years, after her husband's success in America and who throughout the world, when the mature woman became the guardian of the flame, the prime interpreter, the constant reminder of her husband's greatness. These songs, whether you know German or not, are without equal.
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