Brecht-Eisler Song Book

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Eric Bently, a world-renowned Brecht translator, collaborates with soprano-actress Karyn Levitt on this unique program of Brecht-Eisler songs. | Austro-German composer, Hanns Eisler wrote these songs based on poems and theatre ballads by Bertolt Brecht. | Eisler was a student of Schoenberg and a very important composer of the 20th century, even though he is fairly unknown in the United States. | These songs are presented in English, from their original German, in order to unlock Eisler's beautiful songs for English-speaking audiences. | Levitt sings these twenty-three Brecht-Eisler songs that are rarely-heard and mnay never-before recorded. | According to critic Irving Wardle, Ms. Levitt “negotiates a passage for these songs into the concert hall, and in place of the gritty style allows the songs to bloom...”

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Item number	RR62215
Barcode	635309998545
Release date	10/30/2015
Category	Vocal
Label	ROVEN RECORDS
Media type	COMPACT DISC
Number of units	1

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Classical Artist	Levitt, Karyn
	Ostling, Eric

Disc: 1
Ballad of the Soldier, Op. 39		00:03:24
1	Ballad of the Soldier, Op. 39	00:04:05	Ostling, Eric Levitt, Karyn
Hollywooder Liederbuch		00:00:58
2	Hollywooder Liederbuch: No. 44, The Sprinkling of	00:01:11	Ostling, Eric Levitt, Karyn
12 Lieder aus "Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg"		00:02:48
3	12 Lieder aus "Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg": No.	00:03:08	Schimmel, William Levitt, Karyn
Song of the United Front		00:03:16
4	Song of the United Front	00:03:16	Ostling, Eric
Hollywooder Liederbuch		00:01:08
5	Hollywooder Liederbuch: No. 3, To the Little Radio	00:01:18	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric
The Plum Tree		00:01:31
6	The Plum Tree	00:01:49	Ostling, Eric Levitt, Karyn
The Love Market		00:02:51
7	The Love Market	00:03:31	Saltzman, Larry Levitt, Karyn
12 Lieder aus "Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg"		00:01:12
8	12 Lieder aus "Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg": No.	00:01:25	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric
In the Flower Garden		00:02:01
9	In the Flower Garden	00:02:10	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric
Hollywooder Liederbuch		00:01:04
10	Hollywooder Liederbuch: No. 16, The Mask of Wicked	00:01:11	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric
Hollywooder Liederbuch		00:01:18
11	Hollywooder Liederbuch: No. 13, Easter Sunday	00:02:01	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric
Hollywooder Liederbuch		00:03:18
12	Hollywooder Liederbuch: No. 2, The Son	00:02:19	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric
Hollywooder Liederbuch		00:01:40
13	Hollywooder Liederbuch: No. 8, On Suicide	00:01:48	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric
On the World’s Kindness		00:01:00
14	On the World’s Kindness	00:01:45	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric
Song of a German Mother		00:01:43
15	Song of a German Mother	00:02:57	Schimmel, William Saltzman, Larry Levitt, Karyn
A Saying for 1939		00:01:22
16	A Saying for 1939	00:01:45	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric
6 Lieder, Op. 28		00:03:00
17	6 Lieder, Op. 28: Komintern	00:03:05	Ostling, Eric
Elegie 1939 "Truly I Live in a Time of Darkness!"		00:02:42
18	Elegie 1939 "Truly I Live in a Time of Darkness!"	00:03:40	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric
Hollywooder Liederbuch		00:01:02
19	Hollywooder Liederbuch: No. 45, The Homecoming	00:02:03	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric
3 Lieder aus "Kuhle Wampe", Op. 27		00:03:07
20	3 Lieder aus "Kuhle Wampe", Op. 27: Solidarity Son	00:03:37	Ostling, Eric
2 Elegien von Brecht		00:02:00
21	2 Elegien von Brecht: No. 2, You Who Will Be Borne	00:02:31	Levitt, Karyn Ostling, Eric

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