After their 1920s Berlin hit, the Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborated one last time with another entertainment, The Rise and Fall of the State of Mahagonny. We'll begin this week with the incidental music to Mahagonny as recorded by Lotte Lenya and friends in the 1930s.
From there we'll look at some short French pieces by Satie, Poulenc, Debussy, Alain, and Saint-Saens; hop the channel to hear some Elgar and Gilbert & Sullivan; and finish with Schubert's Trout Quintet.