Kurt Weill and Cabaret Aesthetics

Part I

KURT WEILL

“Berlin im Licht”
lyrics by composer
Daria Belousova (mezzo-soprano)

“Klops Lied”
based on a traditional Berlin Folk rhyme
Guzel Sharipova (soprano)

“Und was bekam des Soldaten Weib?”
lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
Daria Belousova (mezzo-soprano)

“Сomplainte de la Seine”
lyrics by Maurice Magre
Guzel Sharipova (soprano)

“Le Grand Lustucru” from the musical Marie Galante
lyrics by Jacques Deval
Guzel Sharipova (soprano)

“J’attends un Navire” from the musical Marie Galante
lyrics by Jacques Deval
Ekaterina Vorontsova (mezzo-soprano)

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
From BRETTL-LIEDER (CABARET SONGS):

“Gigerlette”
lyrics by Otto Julius Bierbaum
Svetlana Lachina (soprano)

“Der genügsame Liebhaber”
to lyrics by Hugo Salus
Ekaterina Vorontsova (mezzo-soprano)

“Einfältiges Lied”
Svetlana Lachina (soprano)

lyrics by Hugo Salus
“Mahnung”
Svetlana Lachina (soprano)

lyrics by Gustav Hochstetter
Aria from the “Spiegel von Arkadien”
lyrics by Emanuel Schikaneder
Ekaterina Vorontsova (mezzo-soprano)

BENJAMIN BRITTEN
“CABARET SONGS”
vocal cycle to lyrics by Wystan Hugh Auden

“Tell me the truth about love”
Yulia Mazurova (mezzo-soprano)

“Funeral Blues”
Yulia Mazurova (mezzo-soprano)

“Johnny”
Daria Belousova (mezzo-soprano)

“Calypso”
Daria Belousova (mezzo-soprano)

ERIK SATIE

“La Diva de L’Empire”
cabaret song to lyrics by Dominique Bonnaud and Numa Blès
Olga Seliverstova (soprano)

“Allons-y Chochotte”
lyrics by D. Durante
Olga Seliverstova (soprano)
Ivan Maximeiko (tenor)


Part II

Klimenty Korchmarev
“Love Conversation” from the film The Duel
lyrics by Alexander Bezymensky
Ivan Maximeiko (tenor)

Klimenty Korchmarev
“I Cannot Lose You”
lyrics by Lev Oshanin
Ivan Maximeiko (tenor)

Nikolai Chemberdzhi
“The Smile”
lyrics by Evgeny Dolmatovsky
Guzel Sharipova (soprano)

Evgeny Zharkovsky
“Unlucky”
humorous serenade to lyrics by Alexei Rezapkin
Ivan Maximeiko (tenor)

Vadim Kochetov
“The Night Campfire”
lyrics by Yaroslav Rodionov
Ivan Maximeiko (tenor)

Mikhail Petrenko
“A Long Way”
lyrics by Andrei Volkov
Guzel Sharipova (soprano)

WILLIAM BOLCOM
From “CABARET SONGS”
lyrics by Arnold Weinstein:

“Amor”
“Oh Close the Curtain”
“Radical Sally”
“At the Last Lousy Moments of Love”

Yulia Mazurova (mezzo-soprano)

KURT WEILL

“It Never Was Anywhere You” from the musical Knickerbocker Holiday
lyrics by Maxwell Anderson
Olga Seliverstova (soprano)

“September Song” from the musical Knickerbocker Holiday
lyrics by Maxwell Anderson
Yulia Mazurova (mezzo-soprano)

“My Ship” from the musical Lady in the Dark
lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Ekaterina Vorontsova (mezzo-soprano)

“Youkali”
tango habanera to lyrics by Roger Fernay
Svetlana Lachina (soprano)

“Tchaikovsky and the other composers” from the musical Lady in the Dark
lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Ivan Maximeiko (tenor)

Piano part: Alexander Gindin