Karen Kohler
Jam and Spice - The Songs of Kurt Weill
© 2000 Karen Kohler
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An ambassador of German culture and international chanteuse, Karen recorded this CD with orchestra for the Weill centenary in 2000. One hears her upper register cut finely across Weill's dissonance, and her plangent lower range employed to warm effect.
tracks
- 1 Berlin im Licht-Song
- 2 Speak Low
- 3 Je ne t’aime pas
- 4 My Ship
- 5 Bilbao-Song
- 6 Here I’ll Stay
- 7 Surabaya-Johnny
- 8 One Touch of Venus
- 9 Der Abschiedsbrief
- 10 Die Moritat (Mack the Knife)
- 11 Youkali
- 12 Lonely House
- 13 Nannas Lied
- 14 Muschel von Margate
- 15 September Song
- 16 River Chanty
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JAM AND SPICE pays tribute to one of the most influentials composers of the 20th Century, Kurt Weill. With this project, Karen Kohler, one of America's foremost interpreters of European chansons, dances lightly across the academic gulf separating the European and American phases of Weill's career and demonstrates his uniform success in marrying score to libretto.
Included are several of the composer's most cherished and recorded works, such as "My Ship," "September Song," and "Mack the Knife (Die Moritat von Mackie Messer)." Karen's aim in producing this album was to record those songs too seldom heard in a popular format, in the hope that they might gain the currency they so richly deserve. A total of 16 tracks span nearly half the composer's life, from "Berlin im Licht-Song" to "River Chanty." Weill's romantic sensitivity, his worldliness, his satirical detachment, and the breadth of his musical sophistication are all in clear evidence on this diverse album, thanks to Robert René Galván's careful arrangements and Kohler's unique abilities with the music, languages and sensibilities of Weill's oeuvre.
Jam and Spice marks the centenary of Kurt Weill's birth and carries the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music's centennial imprint. The documentation is replete with translations and song histories.
"Pure as strawberry preserves. An ace! A life project into which Kohler has breathed life." - Austin Chronicle (4.5 out of 5 star rating)
"Jam and Spice is simply one of the best albums I've ever heard...ever!" - Louis Harrison, KUT Public Radio, Austin