Jonny spielt auf (Jonny Strikes Up) - Ernst Krenek
Information about the opera Jonny spielt auf by Ernst Krenek, and the best recordings available on CD or DVD, or for download.
The only one of Krenek's twenty operas still regularly performed, it includes both classical and jazz orchestration.
Recommended recordings on CD
Zagrosek/Posselt/Petzold (Decca 436 631-2)
A dull performance that doesn't do justice to the opera.
Hawthorne String Quartet, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lothar Zagrosek, 12/1994.
Decca 436 631-2