Lone­ly House

In Germany, Kurt Weill is best known for his works created in collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. However, his oeuvre encompasses much more than just The Threepenny Opera and his Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. And his musicals written for Broadway are no less revolutionary than the works he previously created in Germany. Born in Dessau and shaped by Germany’s musical tradition, achieving his artistic maturity in the wild Berlin of the 1920s before being forced out by the Nazis, the Jewish composer significantly defined the newly emerging genre of musicals.
With Lonely House, Katharine Mehrling presents songs from Kurt Weill’s life in exile, bringing them back to life with Barrie Kosky at the piano.

‘There is perhaps no duo today who can perform the songs of Kurt Weill more artistically and touchingly than Katharine Mehrling and Barrie Kosky.’ [INFORADIO]