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In Search of Youkali album review – Katie Bray is outstanding in this voyage around Weill

The easy fluency of Bray and pianist William Vann guides us through familiar and less well known Kurt Weill songs with the haunting Youkali as the lodestar on our journey

The Guardian - UK

Rufus Wainwright on music, politics and life: ‘Creativity helps to fend off the darker angels’

INTERVIEW: Next month, the musician releases a cover album of songs by his hero Kurt Weill. He talks to Jude Rogers about life under Trump, hanging out with Marianne Faithfull, and why he’ll never criticise Britain over Brexit again

The Independent UK

Marianne Faithfull obituary

Singer who found pop fame and tabloid infamy in the 60s but returned to music in the 70s with Broken English, a statement of bloody-minded survival

The Guardian - UK

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Love Life review – surreal Kurt Weill musical skips through the decades with flair

This time-hopping oddity rarely gets an outing, but Opera North’s jazzy large-scale production makes the most of its vaudeville glitz

The Guardian - UK

The Kurt Weill Album review – an impressively intense debut for Joana Mallwitz

Weill’s rarely heard symphonies are teamed with his satirical survey of the seven deadly sins in the conductor’s first recording with the orchestra

The Guardian - UK

Barrie Kosky carves his name with The Threepenny Opera

Barrie Kosky's version of The Threepenny Opera is tipped to become a definitive production of the Brecht and Weill masterpiece.

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Melanie obituary

American singer who became a star at the Woodstock festival and had a string of hits including Brand New Key and Ruby Tuesday

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Prom 60: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin/Jurowski/Gerstein review – elegance, dash and flair

With a programme of Weill, Adès and Rachmaninov, the Berlin orchestra led by Vladimir Jurowksi showed what a fine group it is

The Guardian - UK

Shows to look out for at this year’s Edinburgh Festivals

THIS year’s Edinburgh Festivals open in the coming days.

The National (Scotland)

Love in a Time of Hate by Florian Illies review – dissolute years of a doomed generation

The experimental sex lives of the artists and thinkers of the roaring 20s are set against the burgeoning threat of fascism in this wickedly amusing and timely book

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená, Barbican Hall review: A whirlwind tour through the Seven Deadly Sins

Kožená adriotly balances the two sides of singer-dancer Anna in a performance of Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht’s final project

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