Kurt Weill - Youkali (Barbara Hannigan / Alexandre Tharaud)

The soprano Barbara Hannigan sings Youkali, of Kurt Weill, with the pianist Alexandre Tharaud. Song recorded on Radio France, september 25th.
Youkali is an extract from the musical play "Marie-Galante", of Jacques Deval (1934). It's one of the songs composed for the play by Kurt Weill. Youkali is a tango-habanera originally purely instrumental, whose lyrics have been added in 1935 by Roger Fernay. This music is a mix of several musical styles, inspired by cabarets, jazz, and popular berliner songs. The lyrics of the song recalls a lost golden age, a kind of melancholia.