Brecht-eisler Song Book

LEVITT OSTLING SALTZMAN SCHIMMEL, KARYN LEVITT

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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