May, Gisela

Nothing Remains, As It Was! 150 years workers and freedom songs Vol. 3

3 CD / Bear Family / 2011-07-05

Works: Hanns Eisler: Drum sag' der SPD ade, song for chorus; Work(s); Der neue Stern, song for chorus ("Proletarisches Weihnachtslied"); Der rote Wedding, song for chorus; Gustav Kulkes seliges Ende; Ballad...
Performers: Bossers, Johan; Bouchot, Vincent; Busch, Ernst; Eisler, Hanns [Conductor]; Garris, John; Hahnel, Hermann; Hofmann, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Joseph, Walter; Kulisiewics, Alex; Lenya, Lotte; May, Gisela; M...
Conductors: Knothe, Dietrich; ; Pousseur, Marianne; Hanns, Eisler; Lukowsky, Rolf; Moser, Heinrich; Gruttner, Manfred; Hoft, Fritz; Scheib, Amei; Guhl, Adolf Fritz; Schmid, Josef; Dobrindt, Otto; Scherchen, Herm...
Ensemble: ; Chorus of the Erich-Weinert Ensembles; Ensembles of the Pegagogical High School Potsdam; Hein & Oss; Instrumentalgruppe; Orchestra Carl Woitschach

Brecht Songs / Gisela May, soprano

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2010-07-13

Works: Kurt Weill: Die sieben Todsünden; Barbara Song, for voice & piano (from "Die Dreigroschenoper"); Die Seeräuber-Jenny (Pirate Jenny), song for voice & piano (from "Die Dreigroschenoper"); Ha...
Performers: May, Gisela
Conductors: Kegel, Herbert; Rögner, Heinz

Brecht-Songs

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Hanns Eisler: Lied eines Freudenmädchens, for voice & piano; Lied von der belebenden Wirkung des Geldes; Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe, incidental music; Kuhle Wampe, film score; Mu...
Performers: Gunther, Joachim; Krauá, Wolfram; May, Gisela; Olbertz, Walter; Pauli, Werner; Sonsalla, Gundula; Stockigt, Siegfried
Conductors: Krtschil, Henry

Reference - Weill: Die sieben Todsünden, etc / Gisela May

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Kurt Weill: Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins), ballet; Das Berliner Requiem, cantata for tenor, baritone, male chorus & wind orchestra; Happy End, musical play; Aufstieg und Fall der ...
Performers: Leib, Gunther; May, Gisela; Polster, Hermann-Christian; Rotzsch, Hans-Joachim; Schreier, Peter
Conductors: Kegel, Herbert; Krtschil, Henry; Rögner, Heinz
Ensemble: ; Berlin Radio Studio Orchestra; Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

This recording, made in 1966, remains the most authentic interpretation since the 1956 Lotte Lenya reading. The high-powered reading given by Herbert Kegel and the...continue...

Der Brecht und Ich - Hanns Eisler in Gesprächen und Liedern

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Spoken Word: Hanns Eisler in discussion with Hans Bunger (series of interviews); Hanns Eisler: Elegies (2) for voice & piano, no 1, "In die Städte kam ich zu der Zeit"; Wiegenlieder (4) für...
Performers: Antoni, Carmen-Maja; Asriel, Andre; Aust, Peter; Busch, Ernst; Czapski, Jutta; Eisler, Hanns [Conductor]; Ernst, Helmut; Follinger, Torsten; Hodek, Johannes; Kühn, Thomas; Kehler, Sonja; Kuhl, K...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Instrumentalgruppe

From the practically inexhaustible number of Lieder, songs, and ballads by Brecht and Eisler, 22 can be heard on this CD. Among these are classics,...continue...

Gisela May - Eisler, Dessau: Brecht Songs

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2005-10-01

Works: Hanns Eisler: Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe, incidental music; Kuhle Wampe, film score; Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg, incidental music; Paul Dessau: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, incid...
Performers: Gunther, Joachim; Kraua, Wolfram; May, Gisela; Olbertz, Walter; Pauli, Werner; Sonsalla, Gundula; Stockigt, Siegfried
Conductors: Krtschil, Henry
Ensemble: Orchestra

Note: This title is rare and is considered a collector’s item. It is priced according to its common market value. If the record label that...continue...

Brecht-Weill: Songs / Gisela May

1 CD / Capriccio / 1989-01-01

Works: Kurt Weill: Happy End; Das Berliner Requiem; Die Dreigroschenoper; Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Performers: Dersch, Wolfgang; Dittmann, Horst; Eberhardt, Werner; Lotz, Siegfried; May, Gisela; Samko, Milan; Schmieder, Manfred; Sonsalla, Gundula
Conductors: Krtschil, Henry
Ensemble: Orchestra