Eisler / Brecht: Die Maßnahme

Kalitzke, Johannes, MDR Leipzig Kammerphilarmonie

MDR 1207

Written in collaboration with Kurt Weill, the "Threepenny Opera" was for Bertold Brecht a It's been a huge success. But only with Hanns Eisler in 1930, Brecht found a comrade-in-arms with whom he was also in agreement in the Weltanschauung. Well not only an important example of the early talkies like "Kuhle Wampe", but on the the basis of an old Japanese template also this "Teaching Play for Tenor, Speaker, Choir and Orchestra" • The "Measure" deals with questions of Discipline in a tightly organized "party new Type" in view of the situation in the then stalinist Soviet Union is a highly topical subject. Brecht and Eisler flashed at the festival, of course "Neue Musik Berlin 1930" with their idea and then resorted to workers' choirs. Add came proven actors from the Berlin Ensemble. The premiere went to midnight hour over the stage of the Berlin Philharmonic. Eisler's music inspired many critics • However, after Brecht's death, the "measure" could not be implemented for decades because the heirs Objected. It wasn't until 1997 this prohibition. In 1998, the under the aegis of Central German Broadcasting this production in Hellerau at the Dresden Days of the contemporary music.

CD

27.10.2012

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