The description:
The greatest works of German poetry await with this boxed set, which features a 50-minute CD and a dual-language book. A luminary of German and American theater, acclaimed actress and chanteuse Lotte Lenya, reads 39 poems by Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Hölderlin, Brecht, and other masters. The 176-page book contains the German text with English translations.
And a little about Lotte Lenya herself:
She was present in the studio when Louis Armstrong recorded Brecht-Weill's Mack the Knife. Armstrong improvised the line "Look out for Miss Lotte Lenya!" and added her name to the long list of Mack's female victims in the song.
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