LSO Live's New Album, "Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins"

The album includes a collection of composer Kurt Weill's memorable works

LSO Live, the London Symphony Orchestra's record label, has released their newest album, Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins.

The album includes a collection of composer Kurt Weill's memorable works. The Seven Deadly Sins, Death in the Forest Op. 23, Street Scene, Four Walt Whitman Songs, and Little Threepenny Music are featured in the new release.

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The album serves as a critique of capitalist society, focusing on the battle between money and morals. The Seven Deadly Sins is a satirical ballet-chanté by Kurt Weill with a German libretto by Bertold Brecht. During its creation, Hitler had come to power and Jewish Weill and Marxist Brecht had both fled from Germany.

The sung ballet tells the story of Anna, a young woman torn between financial survival and personal values.

Singers Magdalena Kožená, Andrew Staples, Florian Boesch, Ross Ramgobin, and Alessandro Fisher collaborate with the London Symphony Orchestra. Recorded on April 28, 2022, in the Barbican Hall, London, Conductor Emeritus Sir Simon Rattle leads the orchestra in this new release.

Launched in 1999, LSO Live has pioneered the concept of artist-owned labels, allowing the players, conductors, and soloists to be stakeholders in the recordings.