Web Links

Here we present a small selection of Eisler clips from the enormous resources of the internet…

Web links from the latest issue of

the Eisler-Mitteilungen

The web recommendations from issue 47 of the Eisler-Mitteilungen are listed below …

Dorine Niezing sings Eisler

Several Eisler songs sung by the Dutch singer Dorine Niezing can currently be found on Youtube, including a good version of "Such nicht mehr, Frau" from the cycle Bilder aus der "Kriegsfibel", with minimalist string quartet accompaniment:

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Also impressive is the Eisler setting of Tucholsky's Der Graben, again with Dorine Niezing and string quartet:

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Sting: An den kleinen Radioapparat

The live recording of An den kleinen Radioapparat sung by British pop king Sting, who unfortunately at one point misses an entry (recorded in Hamburg 1985):

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Das Lied von der Moldau
Youtube presents a number of versions of this song:
Close to the original, the impressive live recording by Milva at a Brecht event at the Berliner Ensemble:

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More quirky, the version with Zarah Leander (also available on CD), here in a TV recording from 1972:

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A highly independent version with voice and guitar is presented by the Brazilian actor Maria Alice Vergueiro (the Lied von der Moldau starts almost exactly 2 minutes into the clip):

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Ballade des Straßensängers

An excerpt from the well-known film of Brecht's Leben des Galilei by Joseph Losey (although Eisler's music is greatly modified):

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The Smurfs: Einheitsfrontlied

The Smurfs version of Brecht/Eisler's Einheitsfrontlied is clearly "postmodern" and not for purists:

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But the original version from 1937 with Ernst Busch is also online:

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