Chorus Of Opera North, James Holmes, The Orchestra Of Opera North, Kurt Weill, Alan Jay Lerner - Weill: Love Life (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. Love Life, Pt. 1: Opening (Magician, Sam, Susan)
02. Love Life, Pt. 1: Who Is Samuel Cooper? (Mary Jo, Tim, George, Jonathan, Charles, Will, Hank, Chorus, Sam, Susan, Elizabeth, Johnny)
03. Love Life, Pt. 1: Here I'll Stay (Sam, Susan)
04. Love Life, Pt. 1: Progress (The Eight)
05. Love Life, Pt. 1: I Remember It Well (Sam, Susan)
06. Love Life, Pt. 1: Green Up Time (Elizabeth, Sam, 3 Guests, Susan, Hank, Alica, Josie, Double Quartet, George)
07. Love Life, Pt. 1: I Remember It Well (Sam, Susan, Johnny, Elizabeth, Walt) [Reprise]
08. Love Life, Pt. 1: Economics (Quartet, Sam, Susan)
09. Love Life, Pt. 1: Mother's Getting Nervous (3 Tots)
10. Love Life, Pt. 1: My Kind of Night - Women's Club Blues (Sam, Elizabeth, Johnny, Susan, Women)
11. Love Life, Pt. 1: Love Song (Hobo)
12. Love Life, Pt. 1: I'm Your Man (Boylan, Harvey, Sam, Slade, Leffcourt, Men, Susan, Bill)

CD2
01. Love Life, Pt. 2: Entr'acte
02. Love Life, Pt. 2: Ho, Billy O! (Leader, Madrigal Singers)
03. Love Life, Pt. 2: Susan's Dream (Sam, Susan, Quartet)
04. Love Life, Pt. 2: I Remember It Well (Susan, Sam) [Reprise]
05. Love Life, Pt. 2: Is It Him or Is It Me? (Susan, Johnny)
06. Love Life, Pt. 2: The Divorce Ballet
07. Love Life, Pt. 2: This Is the Life (Sam)
08. Love Life, Pt. 2: The Minstrel Show (Con Man, Sam, Susan, Minstrels, Interlocutor, Miss Horoscope, Miss Mysticism, Mr. Cynic, Miss Ideal Man)
09. Love Life, Pt. 2: Mr. Right - Finale (Interlocutor, Susan, Sam, Miss Ideal Man, 3 Girls, Minstrels)
10. Love Life, Pt. 2: Bows
11. Love Life, Pt. 1: You Understand Me So (Bill, Susan) (Bonus Track Version)



As a concept musical, Love Life was a real trailblazer, inspiring musical theatre favourites of the 1960s, 70s and beyond from Cabaret and Chicago (originally subtitled ‘A Musical Vaudeville’) to Sondheim’s Company (told through a series of vignettes). It is “one of Weill’s best scores” (conductor Jim Holmes), a masterpiece of putting different musical styles together, “a compendium of American musical idioms, cunningly chosen so that they suit the dramatic material”. Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner teamed up in 1947, both riding high on recent successes (Street Scene for Weill, Brigadoon for Lerner) and looking for new projects. When Love Life premiered on Broadway in 1948, Weill called it “an entirely new form of theatre.” Stephen Sondheim denoted it as “a useful influence on my own work.”

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