In 1933 the two legendary personalities of the German theater and musical landscape of the 20th century, Kurt Weill, responsible for the music, and Bertolt Brecht, who wrote the lyrics, collaborated with leading ballet master George Balanchine to create this series of art songs as a ballet.

"The seven deadly sins" is a studio recording of Kurt Weill's satirical ballet of the same name by Marianne Faithfull with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.

"The seven deadly sins" was released in 1998 on CD - first time on double viny.