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(More customer reviews)OK, I am actually here to buy the DVD, so this is a comment on the performance it is of. Basically, whatever the extra interview stuff they stick on here, a recording of this performance is worth having, at least I think so as I just caught this now-old show on a satellite channel and was compelled to come down to my computer and find out if I could get it on CD or DVD. What you get here musically is not crystal pure tones and pretty brilliance (if you want that kind of a voice you're after Eva Cassidy not Marianne Faithfull), but a performance full of layers and expression. Which is not to say that this is dissonant or difficult, which a lot of people seem to think Weill is: it is melodic, it is compelling, and the lyrics by Brecht are clever and still bite. And it is not to say that Faithfull's voice is less than it could be, it is fine and true, but smoky and mature. She is just hypnotic to listen to and to watch. Not a musical phrase, not a physical gesture is wasted, nor are they overplayed. Great material, superbly performed. The only thing that annoys me about this DVD is that I am having to come to and buy it on the US website because they don't seem to have released it in Europe. All hail the multi-region DVD player.
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This special performance is the culmination of a year-long tour by Marianne Faithfull and pianist/arranger Paul Trueblood. The breathy, frail, and innocent voice of the '60s, wilted by too many years of hard-living, now conveys deep layers of emotion, and the rasp in her voice goes straight to the soul. This concert revisits her album "20th Century Blues" as well as her passion for Kurt Weill, especially the songs composed for his theater collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. Songs: Alabama Song, Pirate Jenny, Bilbao Song, Complainte de la Seine, The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Don't Forget Me, Surabaya Johnny, Street Singer's Farewell, If Love Were All.
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