- Lotte Lenya, Johanna von Koczian, Erich Schellow, Wolfgang Grunert, Inge Wolffberg, Sender Freies Berlin Orchestra, Chor des Sender Freies Berlin, Trude Hesterberg, Wolfgang Neuss, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch
- Studio Chorus, Thomas Stewart, Burgess Meredith, Lotte Lenya, Jane Connell, William Malten, Samuel Matlowsky, Bob Shaver, Hiram Sherman, Studio Orchestra, Jean Sanders, Evelyn Lear, Scott Merrill
- Lotte Lenya, Marek Weber, Studio Chorus, Erika Helmke, Florelle, Erich Ponto, Lewis Ruth Band, Carola Neher, Bertolt Brecht, Studio Pianist, Studio Orchestra, Marek Weber Orchester, Kurt Gerron, Arthur Schroder, Jean Lenoir Orchestra, Dreigroschen Band, Lea Deganith, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Gerda Madsen, Theo Mackeben
- Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Josef Hausmann, Paul Otto Kuster, Gunther Arndt Orchestra, Kurt Hellwig, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg, Lotte Lenya, Johanna von Koczian, Erich Schellow, Wolfgang Grunert, Berlin Sender Freies Orchestra, Inge Wolffberg, Berlin Sender Freies Chorus, Martin Hoeppner, Trude Hesterberg, Wolfgang Neuss
- North German Radio Chorus, Studio Orchestra, Richard Münch, Horst Günter, Gisela Litz, Peter Markwort, Fritz Göllnitz, Sigmund Roth, Heinz Sauerbaum, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg, Lotte Lenya, Georg Mund
Lotte Lenya
Biography
Known for her definitive interpretations of her husband Kurt Weill's songs, the singer and actress Lotte Lenya enjoyed a late-career resurgence after performing in the 1956 Off-Broadway debut of THE THREEPENNY OPERA as well as the original 1966 Broadway production of CABARET. Appearing in the premieres of all the major Brecht-Weill collaborations, including DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER (THREEPENNY OPERA), RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY, and SEVEN DEADLY SINS. Lenya later participated in the definitive Columbia Masterworks recordings of these scores in the mid-'50s. Her 1955 Masterworks LP SINGS BERLIN THEATRE SONGS OF KURT WEILL is still considered the benchmark by which all subsequent interpretations of Weill are measured.