CDs / Voice and Ensemble

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Hanns Eisler, Lieder und Kantaten im Exil (2 CDs, 1996), Berlin Classics (edel), 0092292BC, Roswitha Trexler. Includes Eisler's chamber cantatas written in 1937 (Die Römische Kantate, Man lebt von einem Tage zu dem andern, etc.).

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Hanns Eisler, Kammermusik [I] (1 CD, 1996), Berlin Classics (edel), 0092312BC, various performers. Includes Palmström op. 5.

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Hanns Eisler, Kammermusik [II] (2 CD, 1998), Berlin Classics (edel), 0093542BC, various performers. Includes the Tagebuch des Hanns Eisler op. 9 and Tempo der Zeit op. 16.

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Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Brettl-Lieder, Nachtwandler; Hanns Eisler: Palmström (1 CD, 1999), Karin Ott, Gruppo Musica Insieme di Cremona.

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Die Zwanziger Jahre [various composers] (1 CD, 1988), Thorofon / Bella Musica 5245103, various performers. Includes Palmström op.5.

CD: Sonja Kehler singt Brecht – Eisler – Dessau. Recordings 1972–1978 (1 CD, 2008), Berlin Classics (edel) 0184242BC. With 36 tracks, 14 by Eisler, including songs from Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe, Die Tage der Kommune and the Puntila film – as well as further rareties such as Considering everything, Der Butterräuber von Halberstadt and the Lied vom kriegerischen Lehrer.

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Der Brecht und ich – Hanns Eisler in Gesprächen und Liedern (1 CD, 2006), Berlin Classics (edel) 0017962BC, Hanns Eisler, Gisela May, Sonja Kehler, Ernst Busch, Ekkehard Schall, with piano and ensemble accompaniment. Includes, alongside many Brecht/Eisler classics, rarely-heard piano songs such as the Saarlied or the Ballade von der Billigung der Welt.

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HK Gruber, Roaring Eisler (1 CD, 1998), SonyBMG 74321568822, Ensemble Modern. Alongside parts of Eisler's Suites for Orchestra, contains several songs with ensemble accompaniment interpreted by HK Gruber, such as Ballade von den Säckeschmeißern, the Ballade vom Nigger Jim and the Lied vom SA-Mann.

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Die May (Box with 8 CDs and 1 DVD), Bear Family Records, BCD 16064 IL. Naturally includes a number of Eisler songs …

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Gisela May, Brecht-Songs, Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau (1 CD, 2004), Berlin Classics (edel) 0013112BC. Includes songs from Eisler's music for Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe and Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg, as well as interesting single title such as Das Frühjahr (= Die Spaziergänge from Kuhle Wampe).

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Brecht-Songs mit Gisela May [various composers] (1 CD, 2007), Berlin Classics (edel)  0033152BC. Includes Das Frühjahr (= Die Spaziergänge from Kuhle Wampe), Grabrede für einen Genossen, der an die Wand gestellt wurde, Lied einer Kupplerin and Mutter Beimlein.

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Anmut – Dorine Niezing (1 CD, 2008), Pollyfonie BB10021898. The Dutch singer Dirne Niezing's CD presents songs by Eisler, Dessau, Asriel, and Fischer, largely in new arrangements by Alberto Klein Goldewijk.

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Brecht-Portrait [various composers] (1 CD, 1996), Wergo WER6007850, Sonja Kehler. Includes songs from Eisler's music for Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe and Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg, as well as rare single titles, such as the Ballade zum § 218.

Hanns Eisler, Historische Aufnahmen (1 CD, 1996), Berlin Classics (edel), 0092302BC, Ernst Busch, Helene Weigel, Kate Kühl and others. Includes the first 78s Eisler recorded from 1930 with Ernst Busch (Ballade von den Säckeschmeißern, Stempellied, Lied der Bergarbeiter, etc.), as well as songs from Die Mutter in the Berliner Ensemble version (1951).

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Brecht, Lieder und Balladen [various composers] (1 CD, 2006), Decca/Universal 4428698, Katja Ebstein, Therese Giehse, and others. Includes Eisler's Ballade von der ‚Judenhure‘ Marie Sanders and Klaus Kinski's heavily defamiliarised version of the Ballade vom Weib und dem Soldaten.

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Of the many Ernst-Busch-CDs published by Barbarossa , 17 contain music by Hanns Eisler …

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