Weill: Propheten

The score of The Prophets, intended as the last act of The Eternal Road, was the last that Kurt Weill composed in Europe. In 1998 David Drew devised the concert adaptation of this act, of which this is the premiere’s recording. The Four Walt Whitman Songs, meanwhile, were a product of the war years and reveal Weill at his most touchingly American, fusing American theater song with the German Lied. (Capriccio)