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London Records' Ute Lemper compilation takes its title from a song she sang in her London appearance in the musical Chicago in 1998; it is followed at the start of the disc by her performance of "Don't Tell Mama," a song from another Kander & Ebb show, Cabaret, that she appeared in 1986, and which she recorded on her debut album for Columbia, Crimes of the Heart, in 1987. The two songs neatly dovetail her work over the 12-year period, not only because they are show tunes by the same songwriters but also because they are both pastiches of interwar music, and Lemper has specialized in actual interwar music in between. After several film songs, the compilation includes seven selections from her two albums of Kurt Weill music, followed by four tracks from Illusions, an album devoted to music associated with Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf. Then there is one contemporary song, drawn from her Michael Nyman Songbook release, and finally four numbers from Berlin Cabaret Songs. The wonder is that she is always so assured on material that makes different kinds of demands on a singer from formal precision to uninhibited projection (not to mention being in three languages, English, German, and French). Lemper makes it all sound easy, and she brings alive musical styles we are used to hearing on scratchy old recordings, if at all. She is very much a singing actress, creating characters to perform the disparate material, some of them distinctly unsavory, from Chicago's deadly Velma Kelly to the narrator of "I'm a Vamp!," who declares, "I bite my men and suck them dry, and then I bake them in a pie." Her lusty enthusiasm for such decadent material is her strongest suit, and this is an excellent pricis of her career so far.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Lisa Stevens, MainArtist - John Kander, ComposerLyricist - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - The London Cast Of "Chicago", MainArtist - Mark Vickers, MainArtist - Danny Crossley, MainArtist - Jacqui Allen, MainArtist - Catherine Lawrence, MainArtist - Bill Occleshaw Orchestra, Orchestra - Gareth Valentine, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1998 Decca Music Group Limited
Raymond Asso, Author - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - Marguerite Angèle Monnot, Composer
℗ 1998 Decca Music Group Limited
Dominik Scherrer, ComposerLyricist - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - Paddy Steer, MainArtist - Tony Gethin, MainArtist - Kaposi Gergely, Conductor, MainArtist - Budapest State Opera Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1998 Decca Music Group Limited
Die Dreigroschenoper (Kurt Weill)
Kurt Weill, Composer - John Mauceri, Conductor, MainArtist - Bertolt Brecht, Author - RIAS Kammerchor, Choir, MainArtist - Ute Lemper, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Kurt Weill)
Kurt Weill, Composer - John Mauceri, Conductor, MainArtist - Bertolt Brecht, Author - RIAS Kammerchor, Choir, MainArtist - Ute Lemper, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
Kurt Weill, Composer - Bertolt Brecht, Author - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - Kai Rautenberg, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1988 Decca Music Group Limited
Happy End (1929) (Kurt Weill)
Jeff Cohen, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kurt Weill, Composer - John Mauceri, Conductor, MainArtist - Chris Hazell, Contributor, Recording Arranger, Transcription, AssociatedPerformer - Bertolt Brecht, Author - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - RIAS Sinfonietta Berlin, Ensemble, MainArtist - Tony Burke, Contributor, Transcription
℗ 1993 Decca Music Group Limited
Jeff Cohen, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kurt Weill, Composer - John Mauceri, Conductor, MainArtist - Chris Hazell, Contributor, Recording Arranger, Transcription, AssociatedPerformer - Bertolt Brecht, Author - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - RIAS Sinfonietta Berlin, Ensemble, MainArtist - Tony Burke, Contributor, Transcription
℗ 1993 Decca Music Group Limited
Marie Galante (Kurt Weill)
Jeff Cohen, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kurt Weill, Composer - John Mauceri, Conductor, MainArtist - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - RIAS Sinfonietta Berlin, Ensemble, MainArtist - Jacques Deval, Author - Roger Fernay, Author - Tony Burke, Contributor, Recording Arranger, Transcription, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 Decca Music Group Limited
Lady in the Dark (Kurt Weill)
Jeff Cohen, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kurt Weill, Composer - John Mauceri, Conductor, MainArtist - Ira Gershwin, Author - Chris Hazell, Contributor, Recording Arranger, Transcription, AssociatedPerformer - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - RIAS Sinfonietta Berlin, Ensemble, MainArtist
℗ 1993 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedrich Hollaender, ComposerLyricist - Bruno Fontaine, Conductor, Artist, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - Martin Atkinson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1992 Decca Music Group Limited
Friedrich Hollaender, ComposerLyricist - Bruno Fontaine, Conductor, Arranger, Recording Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - Martin Atkinson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1992 Decca Music Group Limited
Michel Emer, Composer - Bruno Fontaine, Conductor, Arranger, Recording Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - Martin Atkinson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1992 Decca Music Group Limited
Louiguy, Composer - EDITH GASSION, Author - Bruno Fontaine, Conductor, Arranger, Recording Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - Martin Atkinson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1992 Decca Music Group Limited
Six Celan Songs (Paul Celan) (Michael Nyman)
Michael Nyman, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Michael Nyman Band, MainArtist - David Cunningham, Producer - Ute Lemper, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1992 Decca Music Group Limited
Jeff Cohen, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Ziegler, Conductor, MainArtist - Ute Lemper, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Matrix Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mischa Spoliansky, ComposerLyricist - Michael Haas, Producer
℗ 1996 Decca Music Group Limited
Robert Ziegler, Conductor, MainArtist - Ute Lemper, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Matrix Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mischa Spoliansky, ComposerLyricist - Michael Haas, Producer
℗ 1996 Decca Music Group Limited
Jeff Cohen, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Ziegler, Conductor, MainArtist - Ute Lemper, MainArtist - Matrix Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mischa Spoliansky, ComposerLyricist - Michael Haas, Producer
℗ 1996 Decca Music Group Limited
Robert Ziegler, Conductor, MainArtist - Ute Lemper, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Matrix Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mischa Spoliansky, ComposerLyricist - Michael Haas, Producer
℗ 1996 Decca Music Group Limited
Album review
London Records' Ute Lemper compilation takes its title from a song she sang in her London appearance in the musical Chicago in 1998; it is followed at the start of the disc by her performance of "Don't Tell Mama," a song from another Kander & Ebb show, Cabaret, that she appeared in 1986, and which she recorded on her debut album for Columbia, Crimes of the Heart, in 1987. The two songs neatly dovetail her work over the 12-year period, not only because they are show tunes by the same songwriters but also because they are both pastiches of interwar music, and Lemper has specialized in actual interwar music in between. After several film songs, the compilation includes seven selections from her two albums of Kurt Weill music, followed by four tracks from Illusions, an album devoted to music associated with Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf. Then there is one contemporary song, drawn from her Michael Nyman Songbook release, and finally four numbers from Berlin Cabaret Songs. The wonder is that she is always so assured on material that makes different kinds of demands on a singer from formal precision to uninhibited projection (not to mention being in three languages, English, German, and French). Lemper makes it all sound easy, and she brings alive musical styles we are used to hearing on scratchy old recordings, if at all. She is very much a singing actress, creating characters to perform the disparate material, some of them distinctly unsavory, from Chicago's deadly Velma Kelly to the narrator of "I'm a Vamp!," who declares, "I bite my men and suck them dry, and then I bake them in a pie." Her lusty enthusiasm for such decadent material is her strongest suit, and this is an excellent pricis of her career so far.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:19:12
- Main artists: Ute Lemper
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Classical
© 1998 Decca Music Group Limited This Compilation ℗ 1998 Decca Music Group Limited
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