The Flight Across the Ocean
| The Flight Across the Ocean | |
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| Lehrstücke by Bertolt Brecht | |
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| Native title | Der Ozeanflug |
| Language | German |
| Premiere | 1929 |
The Flight across the Ocean (German: Der Ozeanflug) is a
Shortly afterwards, Weill replaced the Hindemith sections with his own music and this new version (described as a "cantata for soloists, chorus and orchestra") opened at Berlin's Kroll Theatre on 5 December 1929, conducted by Otto Klemperer. The play was enlarged as Der Flug der Lindbergh in 1930, but the new portion was not set to music.[3]
In December 1949, Brecht removed Lindbergh's name from the play for an upcoming production by the
Recording
Hindemith, Weill: Der Lindberghflug – Berlin Radio Orchestra and chorus (1930), Cologne Radio Orchestra and Pro Musica Vocal Ensemble (1987)
- Conductor: Hermann Scherchen (1930), Jan Latham-Koenig (1987)
- Principal singers: Ernest Ginsberg (narrator), Erik Wirl (tenor), Fritz Duttbernd (tenor), Gerhard Pechner (voice), Betty Mergler (soprano) (1930), Wolfgang Schmidt, Herbert Feckler, Lorenz Minth, Christoph Scheeben (1987)
- Recording date and location: 18 March 1930 (Berlin) and 1987
- Label: Capriccio – C60012-1 (CD)
See also
- de:Der Flug der Lindberghs, an earlier version (in German)
- The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent, another Lehrstück
References
- ^ Classical net review by Steve Schwartz of Capriccio recording (1999)
- ISBN 9781472538529. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ^ ISBN 9783503037896, pp. 338–341 (inGerman)
- ^ Andreas Conrad: "Ein Naziorden für Charles Lindbergh". Der Tagesspiegel, 2002-02-03 (in German)
- ^ Jan Knopf: Brecht-Handbuch. J. B. Metzler, 1980, pp. 71–74 (German)
External links
- The Flight Across the Ocean: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (original version)
- The Flight Across the Ocean: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (Weill's version)
