- Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Inge Wolffberg, Sender Freies Berlin Orchestra, Chor des Sender Freies Berlin, Trude Hesterberg, Wolfgang Neuss, Lotte Lenya, Johanna von Koczian, Erich Schellow, Wolfgang Grunert
- Thomas Stewart, Jane Connell, Burgess Meredith, William Malten, Lotte Lenya, Evelyn Lear, Samuel Matlowsky, Jean Sanders, Studio Chorus, Bob Shaver, Scott Merrill, Studio Orchestra, Hiram Sherman
- Studio Chorus, Erich Ponto, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Gerda Madsen, Studio Orchestra, Jean Lenoir Orchestra, Dreigroschen Band, Lea Deganith, Theo Mackeben, Bertolt Brecht, Studio Pianist, Lewis Ruth Band, Carola Neher, Lotte Lenya, Marek Weber, Marek Weber Orchester, Kurt Gerron, Arthur Schroder, Erika Helmke, Florelle
- Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg, Gunther Arndt Orchestra, Lotte Lenya, Johanna von Koczian, Erich Schellow, Berlin Sender Freies Chorus, Martin Hoeppner, Kurt Hellwig, Wolfgang Grunert, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Josef Hausmann, Paul Otto Kuster, Berlin Sender Freies Orchestra, Inge Wolffberg, Trude Hesterberg, Wolfgang Neuss
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.