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Joel Cohen, D'Anna Fortunato & The Otaré Pit Band - Weill: Music for Johnny Johnson (Remastered) (1997/2024)

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Joel Cohen, D'Anna Fortunato & The Otaré Pit Band - Weill: Music for Johnny Johnson (Remastered) (1997/2024)

Joel Cohen, D'Anna Fortunato & The Otaré Pit Band - Weill: Music for Johnny Johnson (Remastered) (1997/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 335 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 174 Mb | 01:14:29
Classical, Musical | Label: Warner Classics, Erato Records

One would think that, with the current feelings about the US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, there would be frequent stagings throughout the country of Kurt Weill's JOHNNY JOHNSON, his awe-inspiring anti-war "play with songs" and his first work for the American theater. (Not coincidentally, where are all productions of Joan Littlewoood's OH, WHAT A LOVELY WAR and the Gershwin/Kaufman STRIKE UP THE BAND?)

Although it has never found a large audience, JOHNNY JOHNSON is an essential piece of American Musical Theatre. Most theatre critics were positive about its 1936 premiere, but it lasted for only 68 performances. Staged by Lee Strasberg, the cast included Group Theatre members Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky, and John Garfield. In October, 1956, Stella Adler directed an off-Broadway revival, with Samuel Matlowsky as musical director, at the Carnegie Hall Playhouse. It lasted a week, arguably better than the April, 1971 Broadway revival, staged by Jose Quintero, that lasted for only one night. (Matlowsky also conducts the wonderful 1956 MGM/Polygdor studio cast.) More recent productions include a thirteen-week run at The Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles (1986), a York Theatre Company "Musicals in Mufti" staging in the fall of 2000, and two performances by the Oakland Opera Theatre in December, 2005.

This recording, inspired by the 1996 Boston Camerata's performance at the Longy School, has been called " . . . the most important new Weill recording in several years . . . " (BOSTON GLOBE, 2/19/98). Recipient of France's "Diapason d'Or," it also was included in LE MONDE's and the BOSTON GLOBE's best classical albums of the year for 1997. (Reviews of the recording, as well as Boston Camerata musical director Joel Cohen's informative "Metamorphosis and Parody in Kurt Weill's JOHNNY JOHNSON," can be accessed on the Boston Camerata web site.)

The Cohen recording follows a performance edition realized by Lys Simonette, " . . . a close friend of the Weills and co-founder with [Lotte] Lenya of the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music." (from Larry L. Lash's liner notes) Compared to the 1956 recording, this one includes more incidental music and additional verses to some of the songs. It also contains music cut from the original production: Minny Belle's "Farewell, Goodbye," "The West-Pointer Song," "The Sergeant's Chant," "The Tea Song," "The Asylum Chorus," and an instrumental reprise of "Farewell, Goodbye." A 1997 stereo recording, the CD has outstanding dynamics with speaker-testing tympani passages.

However, as wonderful as this recording is, I still prefer the 1956 studio recording, now available as a CD-On-Demand from the Archiv Music web site. Matlowsky's "band" - recorded in crystal clear "mono" - has more bite than Cohen's Otare Pit Band. And I find the whole production just a little too polite. There are times that Matlowsky's forces seem on the verge of losing control, which I think is appropriate for Weill's score. And, finally, there are the singers: Both Donald Wilkinson & Burgess Meredith sound a little too-long-in-the-teeth to me, but Scott Merrill's "Macheath-infused" reading of "Captain Valentine's Tango" can't be bettered, nor can Lotte Lenya's incredible version of "Mon Ami, My Friend." It's apparent that the singers on the 1956 recording are more attuned to Weill's style - and the listener can understand practically every word. I'm also partial to the mostly-spoken version of "In Times of Tumult and War," making it easier to understand the prayer of the American priest and the German priest.
Tracklist:
01. Johnny Johnson: Introduction
02. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: "Over in Europe, Things Are Bad" (Mayor, Chorus)
03. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: "Democracy Advancing" (Chorus, Minny Belle, Mayor)
04. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: The Battle of San Juan Hill. "Up Chickamuga Hill" (Grandpa Joe, Chorus, Johnny, Mayor, Minny Belle)
05. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: Johnny's Melody. "My Daddy Used to Tell Me" - Interlude (Johnny, Aggie)
06. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: Aggie's Song. "My Husband Is Dead" (Aggie, Johnny, Minny Belle)
07. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: "Oh Heart of Love" (Minny Belle, Johnny)
08. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: "Farewell, Goodbye" (Minny Belle, Johnny)
09. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: "I First Felt the Urge to Splurge" (The West-Pointer, Chorus)
10. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: Chant. "Instruction with Arms" (Sergeant)
11. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: Tango. "What Are You Coming For?" (Captain)
12. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: Army Interlude
13. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: "Just Think of It" (Johnny)
14. Johnny Johnson, Act 1: "He Calls on Me, Poor Wandering One" (The Goddess)
15. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: Song of the Wounded Frenchman. "Nous sommes blessés" (Chorus, Sergeant)
16. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: The Tea Song. "Now England Is as We All Know" (Sergeant, Chorus, Johnny, Private Harwood)
17. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: The Cowboy Song. "Oh, the Rio Grande" (Private Harwood, Johnny)
18. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: Johnny's Dream
19. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: Song of the Guns. "Soldiers! Soldiers!" (Chorus)
20. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: The Stricken Redeemer
21. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: "Mon ami, My Friend" (Nurse)
22. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: The Allied High Command. "And So, Messieurs…" (Commander-in-Chief)
23. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: The Laughing Generals. "We'll All Be Home for Chritmas" (Chorus)
24. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: The Battle
25. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: In Times of War and Tumults. "Almighty God" (American Priest, German Priest, Chorus)
26. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: In No Man's Land
27. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: Johnny's Homecoming, Reminiscence
28. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: The Psychiatry Song. "Ms. Tomkins, Johnny Johnson Is a Disturbed Man" (Doctor Mahodan)
29. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: Asylum Chorus. "How Sweetly Friendship Binds Our Hearts In Brother Love" (Chorus)
30. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: Round. "Come Let Us Hymn a Hymn to Peace" (Chorus)
31. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: Asylum Chorus (Instrumental Reprise)
32. Johnny Johnson, Act 2: Johnny's Song. "When Man Was First Created" (Johnny)

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