MACK THE KNIFE - Songs of KURT WEILL
Original 1929–1956 Recordings

Two continents, two careers, two totally different styles of music. There's only one 20th century composer who fits that definition: Kurt Weill.

This strange, idiosyncratic man could deliver everything from the tinny, rasping decadence of Weimar Germany to the lush showbiz romanticism of 1940s Broadway.

His songs have been 'covered' by everyone from Bobby Darin to The Doors and some of his greatest hits have come from the least likely of sources.

Call him a true original – a fact that the twenty wildly disparate selections on this recording prove time and time again.

He was born in Dessau, Germany, on 2 March 1900, into a religious Jewish family, the son of a cantor. By the time he was twelve, he was already composing serious musical works and by the age of 26 he had dazzled the musical Establishment with his setting of Georg Kaiser